{"id":67667,"date":"2012-12-27T06:42:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T11:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=67667"},"modified":"2012-12-27T06:42:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T11:42:24","slug":"the-hobbit-boxes-out-all-others-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/12\/27\/67667-the-hobbit-boxes-out-all-others-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hobbit boxes out all others in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/00-hobbit-gandalf.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/00-hobbit-gandalf-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"00-hobbit-gandalf\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-65828 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/00-hobbit-gandalf-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/00-hobbit-gandalf-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/00-hobbit-gandalf.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> The first instalment in the Hobbit trilogy has led a record day in Australian cinemas as Peter Jackson beat his own mark to claim the largest Boxing Day release ever. Australia&#8217;s largest film exhibitor, Event Cinemas, posted its biggest day&#8217;s trading on record, with business up 69 per cent on Boxing Day last year and higher than any other individual day in the company&#8217;s 100-plus-year history.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson&#8217;s film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was the chief lure, drawing in $5,925,000 in one day to record the third biggest opening day ever, behind the final Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 ($7,092,000) and 2012&#8217;s biggest movie, The Avengers ($6,004,000).<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/movies\/hobbit-runs-rings-around-boxing-day-record-20121227-2bxm9.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first instalment in the Hobbit trilogy has led a record day in Australian cinemas as Peter Jackson&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":65828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/00-hobbit-gandalf.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-hBp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67667","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67670,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67667\/revisions\/67670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}