Brandon Gray
Boxofficemojo.com
12/23 – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ruled them all at the weekend box office, drawing an estimated $45.3 million over the Friday-Sunday period and lifting its five-day total to $73.1 million. In the process, it handily broke the December weekend record set by Ocean’s Eleven’s $38.1 million bow two weekends ago.
Breaking the weekend down, Rings grabbed about $14.3 million on Friday, $17 million on Saturday and projected to do about $13.9 million on Sunday. Its on track to do over $60 million for the five-day Christmas weekend (Friday-Tuesday), likely propelling its first week gross into the $90 million range and setting a course for around $150 million by the end of the year.
Overseas, Rings also pulled in an estimated $60 million in its first five days in 15 countries (13 in Europe plus New Zealand and South Africa). Leading the pack were the United Kingdom with $16 million, Germany with $13.5 million, France with $8.4 million and Spain with $4.8 million.
Add the two tallies together and Rings has around $133 million worldwide, which would make the 27th highest grossing picture of the year so far.
Actual three-day weekend numbers will be issued on Wednesday, 12/26 due to Hollywood taking the 24th and 25th off. (Normally, actual numbers are issued on Monday afternoons.) But the Wednesday figures will also include the five-day weekend actuals (Friday-Tuesday). [More]
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Another Ataahua provided article from the New Zealand Sunday News that Peter Jackson needs a ‘new, urban look for the millenium’. Give me a break.. [More]
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An image of the Elvish tattoo that the Fellowship actors each got to commemorate the experience has found itself in this Sunday’s New Zealand Sunday News. Ataahua sends in a scan! [More]
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Wondering what the heck that message is that is at the end of the Fellowship of the Ring? Well Ataahua wrote in to reveal that it’s not an elvish or sindarin tongue, but in fact a real language: Maori. [More]
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Wondering what the heck that message is that is at the end of the Fellowship of the Ring? Well Ataahua wrote in to reveal that it’s not an elvish or sindarin tongue, but in fact a real language: Maori.
At the end of the credits of The Fellowship of the Ring, there’s a line in te reo Maori (the Maori language) that reads: “He mihi nui hoki ki nga tangata whenua o Aotearoa. Ma rangi raua ko papa tatou e manaaki, e tiaki hei nga tau e tu mai nei.”
I thought you might like to know the translation (this isn’t word-for-word; it’s the gist of what was written, translated by a friend who was brought up speaking Maori as his first language): “We would like
to acknowledge the people of New Zealand. May God from above care for you in the New Year.”
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While you’re looking for that MSNBC LOTR special tonight, be sure to catch a repeat showing of the TNT LOTR special. I hear it’s a good one! Check your local listings.
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