{"id":26958,"date":"2001-12-21T15:49:15","date_gmt":"2001-12-21T21:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/12\/21\/lotr-box-office-day-2-2\/"},"modified":"2001-12-21T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2001-12-21T21:49:15","slug":"lotr-box-office-day-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/12\/21\/26958-lotr-box-office-day-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTR Box Office &#8211; Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Brandon Gray<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/Boxofficemojo.com\" target=\"new\">Boxofficemojo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Lord of the Rings&#8217; fell 47% to $9.7 million in its second day of release, elevating its total to $27.9 million. <\/p>\n<p>Though the drop may seem precipitous, keep in mind that &#8216;Star Wars: Episode I &#8211; The Phantom Menace&#8217; dove 57% from its Wednesday bow to $12.3 million, yet went on to do $64.8 million for the following three-day weekend. Should &#8216;Rings&#8217; follow a similar line, its looking at over $60 million for the five-day Christmas weekend, lifting its total to around $90 million. <\/p>\n<p>Another fantasy film with a devoted fanbase (albeit only a fraction of &#8216;Rings&#8217; and &#8216;Star Wars&#8217;), &#8216;Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within&#8217; opened on a Wednesday last July to $5 million and tumbled 48% to $2.6 million on its second day en route to an $11.4 million weekend. Worst case scenario, &#8216;Rings&#8217; follows that pattern and delivers over $50 million for the five-day weekend. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/data\/lordoftherings\" target=\"new\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon GrayBoxofficemojo.com &#8216;The Lord of the Rings&#8217; fell 47% to $9.7 million in its second day of release,&#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-26958","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-70O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958","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=26958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}