Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on an epic ...

Mikael Persbrandt plays shape-shifter Beorn in the last two Hobbit movies. In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, he helps Gandalf, Bilbo, and the dwarfs hide from orcs, and he can also transform ...

Who and what is Beorn in ‘The Hobbit’? According to a Wiki Fandom page, Beorn is a skin-changer with the ability to transform into a great black bear. Other times, he appears as a human with a great ...

One of the more intriguing additions to Peter Jackson’s rendering of Middle Earth is the character of Beorn, a nomadic skin-changer who hosts Gandalf, Bilbo and the party of dwarves halfway through ...

Swedish website SVD got the chance to do an exclusive interview with Mikael Persbrandt who will be playing the role of Beorn in the upcoming Hobbit movie. He discuses how he was a Tolkien fan, that he ...

Some fans of The Hobbit might remember that last year, this writer went out to Denny's corporate headquarters to check out a special cross-promotion event between Denny's and The Hobbit: An Unexpected ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. I was already looking forward to The Hobbit ...