Just this weekend, Peter Jackson revealed that the two “Hobbit” films will now start filming mid-summer 2010 instead of the previously-reported March start. We didn’t think this would affect the first film’s release of December 2011, but according to TheWrap‘s WaxWord that might just be the case:
“While it is still possible that it could come out in December 2011, it looks more likely to be 2012,” an executive close to the film told the site.
The second film would be pushed back to 2013 then.