Warner Bros said on Thursday that the final instalment of The Hobbit film trilogy will be released on December 17, 2014, five months later than planned.

The Hobbit: There and Back Again had been set to debut in July 2014 and that it will follow The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which came out in December 2012, and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which will reach theatres in December 2013.

Dan Fellman, president of distribution for Warner Bros, a unit of Time Warner Inc. said that they are excited to complete the trilogy the same way they started it, as a holiday treat for moviegoers everywhere.

Moreover, The Hobbit series is a prequel to J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings, which director Peter Jackson made into three Oscar-winning films about a decade ago.

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(AW:Samrat Biswas)