![]() The first two Hobbit films had the two highest opening weekends of the entire six-film series so far, and both grossed more than the first two installments of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. There are going to be a lot of people anxiously hoping for a weak opening domestic weekend, ready to declare just about anything a failure or underperformance because such headlines and grim pronouncements attract attention and generate link clicks. ![]() Let's get a few things out of the way right off the bat. Meaning the smart money should be on The Battle of the Five Armies to do in the neighborhood of $1 billion. That movie - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - grossed $950 million around the world. As the last entry in the cinematic Tolkien universe, this film is going to at least match the performance of the previous entry in the series. I wouldn't watch them, because there's some things happening in Fellowship that will be spoiled if you see/read them before BOTFA.The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies hits domestic theaters December 17th, although it has already opened in Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland, and New Zealand, and opens in most other foreign countries this weekend. In the appendices, it's described who he went with, why he went, what flavors he bought and what happened when he got there. I don't know how to spoiler, so I'll say this : let's pretend that in The Hobbit, Gandalf heads off to buy ice cream. He styled the latter, dramatically speaking, in a tone more consistent with Lord of the Rings ( less juvenile, more 'high' sounding, for one. When Tolkien wrote RotK, he included 5 or 6 appendices detailing Middle Earth lore, language, history and other assorted minutiae of the legendarium, including the events of The Hobbit. Some of it - like Tauriel and Legolas - was entirely fictional on the part of Jackson and co, while some was taken from the appendices of Return of the King and padded, to greater and lesser degrees. ![]() And I noticed in the 2nd one there was stuff I didn't recognize (which I assume was from the LotR books/movies? ![]()
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