{"id":26943,"date":"2001-12-23T15:35:26","date_gmt":"2001-12-23T21:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/12\/23\/lotr-fotr-box-office\/"},"modified":"2001-12-23T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2001-12-23T21:35:26","slug":"lotr-fotr-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/12\/23\/26943-lotr-fotr-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTR: FOTR Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Brandon Gray<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/Boxofficemojo.com\" target=\"new\">Boxofficemojo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12\/23 &#8211; 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&#8217;s Eleven&#8217;s $38.1 million bow two weekends ago.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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). [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/data\/lordoftherings\" target=\"new\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon GrayBoxofficemojo.com 12\/23 &#8211; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ruled them all at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-70z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}