{"id":26951,"date":"2001-12-22T16:50:03","date_gmt":"2001-12-22T22:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/12\/22\/lotrfotr-box-office-day-3-2\/"},"modified":"2001-12-22T16:50:03","modified_gmt":"2001-12-22T22:50:03","slug":"lotrfotr-box-office-day-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/12\/22\/26951-lotrfotr-box-office-day-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTR:FOTR Box Office &#8211; Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Brandon Gray<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/Boxofficemojo.com\" target=\"new\">Boxofficemojo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lord of the Rings drew in an estimated $14.3 million on Friday, up 47% over Thursday and raising its 3-day total to $42.2 million. <\/p>\n<p>By comparison, Harry Potter did $90.3 million in its opening three-day weekend, however it bowed in a November, a month more conducive to huge starts than December. Rings has New Year&#8217;s weekend to look forward to, so it should have longer legs than the boy wizard. <\/p>\n<p>For the five-day Christmas weekend (Friday-Tuesday), Rings is on track to land in the vicinity of $65 million, handily shattering all December weekend records and raising its one-week total to over $90 million. With students off from school and many adults on vacation thanks to the holidays, brisk business will be seen on the weekdays and on through New Year&#8217;s weekend, which could help Rings pull in around $150 million by the end of the year. <\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned on Sunday for the studio weekend estimates, the Saturday estimate, and the latest international numbers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/data\/lordoftherings\" target=\"new\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon GrayBoxofficemojo.com The Lord of the Rings drew in an estimated $14.3 million on Friday, up 47% over&#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-26951","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-70H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26951","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=26951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}