{"id":67505,"date":"2012-12-22T03:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T08:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=67505"},"modified":"2012-12-22T03:58:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T08:58:30","slug":"can-the-hobbit-maintain-its-top-spot-at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/12\/22\/67505-can-the-hobbit-maintain-its-top-spot-at-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Can ‘The Hobbit’ maintain its top spot at the box office?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey<\/em> will almost certainly retain its top spot at the U.S. box office this week as a host of new films seek to find cinema audiences. Tom Cruise and his drama Jack Reacher<\/em> looks like the leader of the pack of new films, none of which will threaten Peter Jackson’s first of three movies back in Middle-earth based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s first writings to feature Hobbits.<\/p>\n

Jackson famously directed three films based on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings<\/em> to earn all the award things and pull down about $3 billion in movie-ticket sales and a dragon’s hoard of gold from home video and merchandising.<\/p>\n

Hollywood.com’s Paul Dergarabedia, who gets to talk about box office to all the media, writes that:<\/p>\n

“While The Hobbit will certainly top the box office for the second straight weekend with a gross in the $50 million range, a host of newcomers are going to fight over the leftovers this Christmas weekend.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Dergarabedia was a little low on his predictions for The Hobbit<\/em>‘s opening while others were unrealistically high. He relies on the historical performance of similar movies in similar release dates. You can read his whole weekend rundown right here<\/a>. You can also read his Hobbit-specific predictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The better known (but not better) BoxOfficeMojo.com says:<\/p>\n

“…it’s a foregone conclusion that The Hobbit will once again lead the box office, though it could yield the top spot on Christmas Day to Django Unchained<\/em> or Les Miserable<\/em>s.”<\/em><\/p>\n

That story, also worth a read if box office matters to you, can be found here<\/a>.
\nIt also features The Hobbit<\/em>‘s interesting box office page<\/a> that also features a tab with a daily chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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