Warner Bros. has confirmed that the extended cut of The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies will indeed be rated R. Why specifically is unclear, but one would assume it's for some extra violence and not an added inter-species sex scene between Tauriel and Kili.
Anyway, the following trailer is for the upcoming Fathom Events screening of the trilogy, and contains some brand new shots. One of things a lot of fans took issue with in the theatrical version of TBOTFA is that bear-man Beorn was only in one blink-and-you-miss it shot towards the end, but as you'll see from the trailer there will be more of him in this extended edition.
The Fathom Events screening of the extended cuts of all three The Hobbit movies kicks off on October 5th. and The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies extended edition arrives on Blu-ray and DVD on November 17th.
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