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Holiday Box Office: Tom Cruise's 'Reacher,' Judd Apatow's 'This is 40' No Match For 'Hobbit'

The Hobbit

Traffic was sluggish at the multiplex on Friday as a crush of new movies -- including Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher and Judd Apatow's This Is 40 -- competed with one another for the attention of moviegoers already distracted by holiday preparations. Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey beat both new films to stay at No. 1, grossing $10.2 million for an eight-day domestic cume of $123.3 million.

 

'The Hobbit' tops box office with $84.8 million

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" led the box office with a haul of $84.8 million, a record-setting opening better than the three previous "Lord of the Rings" films. The Warner Bros. Middle Earth epic was the biggest December opening ever, surpassing Will Smith's "I Am Legend," which opened with $77.2 million in 2007, according to studio estimates Sunday. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" also passed the December opening of "Avatar," which opened with $77 million. Internationally, "The Hobbit" also added $138.2 million, for an impressive debut well north of $200 million.

 

Box Office Report: 'The Hobbit' Tops Friday With $37.5 Million, a December Best

The Hobbit

Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is living up to expectations, grossing $37.5 million to score the biggest Friday ever in the month of December. Overseas, the film's three-day gross (it began rolling out Wednesday) is $57 million, putting its world total at $94.5 million.

 

'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' Reviews Roundup

The Hobbit

The embargo on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey reviews has been lifted, so a number of publications have published theirs online. And surprise! They're not all raves and a number of the critics have issues with the high frame rate (HFR) version of the movie. As of this writing, An Unexpected Journey is 73% at Rotten Tomatoes. Check them out below.

 

Third Hobbit Movie Given the Greenlight

The Hobbit

Peter Jackson announces in Facebook post that the third Hobbit movie has been given the greenlight. Originally, only two movies were planned but after completing principal photography a couple weeks ago and seeing a rough cut of the first movie and much of the second, Jackson felt a third movie is necessary to tell the story of The Hobbit in its entirety.

 

Comic-Con crowd goes crazy for 'Hobbit' footage

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If reaction to "The Hobbit" footage at Comic-Con is any indication, Peter Jackson has another couple of blockbusters on his hands. The crowd attending Jackson's "Hobbit" preview at the fan convention Saturday went wild over a 12-minute reel the filmmaker and his colleagues screened.

 

Are Moviegoers Ready for 48 Frames Per Second? The Fallout From CinemaCon's 'The Hobbit' Screening

The Hobbit 48fps Showcase

Peter Jackson showed a 10-minute work-in-progress clip from The Hobbit at CinemaCon earlier today, and the reactions were decidedly mixed -- not the content of the clip itself, but the format it was presented in. You see, the movies you see in theaters today are shown at 24 frames per second, but that Hobbit clip was shown at 48 frames per second. What is the problem, you asked?

 

The Hobbit trailer to play in front of Tintin

Warner Bros. has confirmed today that the trailer for THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY will play in front of THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN when it hits theaters next week. No word on when it will hit the net, so your first chance to see it might in front of Spielberg's latest.

 

Spielberg's Tintin gets seal of approval

Spielberg's Tintin gets seal of approval

Thundering typhoons! Steven Spielberg has won the seal of approval of Tintin's native land—and that's no mean feat. In Tintin's home city, movie journalists got a sneak preview of "The Adventures of Tintin​—The Secret of the Unicorn​" this week, and knives were sharpened in case it turned out that some Hollywood mogul had barged in and desecrated perhaps Europe's greatest cartoon character ever.

Senh: That's good to hear. I'm looking forward to what two of our greatest living directors can bring us in a collaboration. I wasn't impressed by the teasers for "Tintin," but the full trailer has Steven Spielberg's stamp all over it. Should be a lot of fun.

 

Peter Jackson and The Hobbit won't be at Comic Con, but here's a new production video instead

Over the past couple of weeks, Peter Jackson has been slowly revealing images of the dwarves from THE HOBBIT movies. Considering the timing, that prompted speculation that it was building to something specific, like an appearance at Comic Con. Turns out it was perhaps instead meant to introduce and familiarize people with the characters in costume before the filmmaker released his latest video production blog, which...

 

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