'The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies' unleashes a trailer, and more news to note

Today's talk you might've missed:

• "Will we have peace or war?" asks the just released trailer for "The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies." Judging from that clip and the trailer for "Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part I," it looks like this winter is going to be all about the latter.

• For her 50th birthday on Saturday, Sandra Bullock rounded up some friends - including Chelsea Handler and Whitney Cummings, hit a "Cowboy Bar" in Wyoming and then took pictures like this: [People]

• Lea Michele is the newest guest star to join the final season of "Sons of Anarchy" - which, you may be interested to know, is apparently her favorite show.

I'll be appearing on an episode of my favorite show @SonsofAnarchy! Thank you so much @Harparbar & @sutterink#SOAFXpic.twitter.com/YlyvosTYuw

— Lea Michele (@msleamichele) July 28, 2014

• Jessica Simpson's son Ace is apparently already bros with Rocco, the son of Simpson's BFF CaCee Cobb.

• Why did "Lucy" perform so much better than "Hercules" at the box office? Here's one interesting answer: [THR]