When it comes to sound effects and dubbing, stories about dragons and desolate men at sea have the same problem: How to place audiences right there with the character. Brent Burge and Chris Ward, both ...

If pictures have 3D, then sound has Dolby Atmos. Academy Award-winning sound mixer Christopher Boyes tells CNET how he used the audio tech to give moviegoers a more engrossing experience. Mariel is a ...

In returning to Middle-Earth for the second “Hobbit” adventure, “The Desolation of Smaug,” Oscar-nominated sound editors Brent Burge and Chris Ward were given a gift with the very hot Benedict ...

Fans of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug already got one cool treat when Stephen Colbert's cameo in the middle of Peter Jackson's trilogy adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's book was discovered. You ...

Hurrah for Smaug. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, second part of Peter Jackson's epic-length adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, mercifully turns its back on the recent tendency to depict ...

One of the film’s highlights is undoubtably Bilbo and the dwarves’ encounter with the titular dragon in the dwarf kingdom of Erebor, and the sound designers looked at that as a particular moment to ...