{"id":67871,"date":"2013-01-03T00:07:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T05:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=67871"},"modified":"2013-01-03T00:07:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T05:07:52","slug":"the-hobbit-wins-the-holiday-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/01\/03\/67871-the-hobbit-wins-the-holiday-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hobbit wins the holiday box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bilbo.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bilbo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bilbo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-67179 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bilbo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bilbo-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bilbo-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Put away the party hats. With a new year dawning, the holiday movie season has essentially come to an end. The big winner this year: The Hobbit. In the two weeks the film has been in theaters it has grossed $690 million.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i>TORn Editor&#8217;s note: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=hobbit.htm\">Box Office Mojo<\/a> is reporting that worldwide gross has passed $700 million. I&#8217;m not sure the numbers really matter at this point except to accountants, but that&#8217;s a lot chocolate chip cookies.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The film had the biggest opening of any of the Lord of the Rings movies with an $84 million weekend and it is well on its way to matching the grosses of the first three films which earned an average $900 million each globally.<\/p>\n<p>That could eventually help The Lord Of The Rings become the second highest grossing franchise of all time behind Harry Potter.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dorothypomerantz\/2013\/01\/02\/the-hobbit-wins-the-holiday-box-office\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put away the party hats. With a new year dawning, the holiday movie season has essentially come to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":67179,"comment_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,4,1156,1287,498,148,392],"tags":[1831],"class_list":["post-67871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-hobbit-movie","category-mgm-production-studios-production","category-new-line-cinema-production-studios","category-production-studios","category-hobbit","category-warner-bros","tag-box-office"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bilbo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-hEH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67871","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=67871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67876,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67871\/revisions\/67876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}