New Line reports that Two Towers recorded a massive opening day at the box office – earning $42 million (US dollars) worldwide. The breakdown is $26 million in the USA, and $16 million internationally. The film has also received 2 Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. [More]
Month: December 2002
Central film in LoTR takes $26 million domestically and $16 million internationally, breaking records in eight territories.
Film also receives 2 Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture and Best Director.
Los Angeles, CA, December 19, 2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers stormed the global box office on its first day in theaters taking an estimated $42 million (US dollars) worldwide — up almost 45% on last year’s day one takings of $29 million for FoTR.
Two Towers took $26 million in the USA alone, and an additional $16 million outside the US.
The film broke all single day records in Denmark, and opening day records in seven other international territories, New Line Cinema president Rolf Mittweg announced.
In the USA, the film surpassed the opening day receipts of its predecessor by 44% (last year, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring opened at $18 million).
Fans lined up as early as Tuesday night for sold-out midnight showings at 3,622 theaters across the US. Opening to critical acclaim, it has become the second highest Wednesday opener — only surpassed by 1999’s Star Wars: The Phantom Menace at $28.5M).
Internationally, the film posted a $16 million gross, up 45% from last year (Fellowship bowed to an $11 million overall opening day internationally). The film is playing on nearly 12,000 screens worldwide, 6,633 screens domestic and 5,000 internationally.
“This powerful response … illustrates the true universality of Tolkien’s themes and the broad reach of Jackson’s vision,” Mittweg said.
“We’re astounded at these numbers. For a three-hour film that is central in a trilogy to open this way is energizing and tremendously exciting.”
Opening day-and-date in countries, the film broke all single day records in Denmark, and marked the highest opening day ever in Germany, Austria, Finland, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden and Norway. Further, the film posted increases from last year’s opening day of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in all territories, up as high as 98% in Belgium.
Country – Gross -Increase
Austria – 523K – 69%
Belgium – 300K – 98%
Denmark – 830K – 66%
Finland – 240K – 38%
France – 1.93M – 21%
Germany – 3.95M – 36%
Greece – 218K – 51%
Holland – 350K – 85%
Norway – 790K – 65%
South Africa – 156K – 39%
Spain – 1.08M – 40%
Sweden – 950K – 38%
Switzerland – 350K – 63%
UK – 3.9M – 28%
The film open in six more countries (including New Zealand, South Korea) on Thursday, and another six on Friday (including Mexico).
Ringer Spy Brian dropped us a line with this link to Toy Biz’s new action figure – Gollum!
Update: It’s been brought to our attention that this was originally was sourced from American Dream Comics. In fact, AMD has much more information – check it out! [More]
Loki sends in the early numbers from Germany: TTT had the best opening day of all time (and remember this was Wednesday) with around 610.000 admissions and a gross of over 4 mill.
Garfeimao writes: OK, the Two Towers is out, and most of us went to see it at our local Line Party events on Tuesday at midnight, so what’s next? Well, in Los Angeles, the Irvine Line Party is having a second day of activities this Saturday, December 21, including a Blood Drive. [More]
Garfemiao writes:
OK, the Two Towers is out, and most of us went to see it at our local Line Party events on Tuesday at midnight, so what’s next? Well, in Los Angeles, the Irvine Line Party is having a second day of activities this Saturday, December 21, including a Blood Drive.
We will be having a full schedule of events such as a costume contest, gaming demos, children’s activities and a combat recreation group, along with the Blood Drive. There will be prizes for many of these events, so come on down and partake of the Line Party experience. The events will be from 10am until 4pm, and Two Towers is playing on 4 separate screens, so there will be plenty of showtimes to choose from. Check out the Irvine Line party page for more details, or email me at Garfeimao@yahoo.com.
This is a critical time of year for our blood supply, so please consider coming down and donating. Everyone who signs up recieves a free Red Cross shirt, a coupon for 6 Krispy Kreme donuts, and a raffle ticket for some other prizes. This will be held at the Irvine Spectrum in the lobby of the Edwards cinema, located at the junction of the 5 and 405 freeways in Irvine. Give the Gift of Life this Holiday season.
You can read all the details here.