![]() ![]() Yet despite those big opening weekend numbers, the additional ticket pricing for 3D, and the immense anticipation worldwide for the Hobbit films in the aftermath of the mega-success of the first trilogy, there were a ridiculous number of people walking around insisting that the Hobbit movies might flop, looked likely to underperform, and so on. 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. 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. ![]()
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