LORD OF THE RINGS BOX OFFICE MOVIE
LORD OF THE RINGS BOX OFFICE SERIES

Outside of the U.S., The Return of the King broke the opening-weekend record, and set new single-day records in 13 separate territories. Needless to say, after so much cinematic success, The Return of the King became New Line Cinema's highest grossing release and remains so today.

These achievements were topped by Meet The Fockers and I Am Legend, respectively. The Fellowship's final adventure broke records for Christmas Day and Boxing Day takings, and attained the highest December opening weekend. The final chapter of the original trilogy broke a string of other box office records, and snared the strongest Wednesday in US history with $34.5 million, beaten by Spider-Man 2 the following year. The Return of the King was the most lucrative of Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, and was comfortably the highest grossing film of 2003 with $1,120,929,521, beating Pixar's Finding Nemo. In a somewhat more esoteric accolade, The Two Towers became the only film in Swiss history to enter the country's top 5 while only showing in open-air screenings in 2003.

The middle chapter of Tolkien's magnum opus was the highest grossing film of 2002.īack in the day when renting films was still a thing, The Two Towersbeat The Bourne Identityby grossing $22.89 million in video rentals in its opening five days of release. This record has since been stolen by Game of Thrones, with almost all of the 82-minute 'The Long Night' comprising a single battle, compared to the 40-minute Helm's Deep scrap. Speaking of lengthy filmmaking, The Two Towers contained the longest battle scene in film with the Battle of Helm's Deep.

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With The Two Towers and The Return of the King filmed back-to-back, Peter Jackson's series boasted the longest film shoot, lasting 274 days over 16 months, equaling the record set by 1979's Apocalypse Now. The Guinness Book of World Records also recognizes The Lord of the Rings for burning through 1,800 Hobbit feet props during filming.Ĭompared to the two films sandwiching it, The Two Towers broke less ground, but the records it did topple were considerable ones.

LORD OF THE RINGS BOX OFFICE MOVIE

Famously, Peter Jackson turned New Zealand into Middle-earth for his movies, which ties The Fellowship of the Ring with Shakespeare in Love for the most nominations received by a film produced at least partially by non-Americans.Įach The Lord of the Rings release improved upon the box office of its predecessor, and the three films became the highest grossing movie trilogy of all time by beating the original Star Wars trilogy, and remaining so in 2020.Īway from the glitz and glamour of awards season, The Lord of the Rings boasted a record-breaking production, and is listed by Guinness as still holding the world record for largest battle sequences on film, with 200,000 fighting characters. Getting more specific, visual effects were obviously a major factor in every Lord of the Rings movie, and the academy recognized this, awarding every film in the first trilogy the Best Visual Effects statuette, meaning the series holds the most consecutive visual effects Oscar wins thanks to Jim Rygiel and Randall William Cook.

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