How is the movie doing at the box office? - Page 2

***Fat middle*** · 01-12-2002, 07:57 AM

i found this page that keep track of how the movie is doing comparing with Titanic, TPM and Harry Potter. Box Office

After three weeks FOTR has never gain more than the others (excepting Titanic that begun very modestly).

It seems that this weekend FOTR will do his 4th at the top (HP only got three top weekends) but i think that afterwards it will decrease very quickly: for most people it is too large a movie to be seen twice...

So far, worlwide it's doing passing well.

Marcus · 01-12-2002, 02:57 PM

with all the money are they going to make the graphics better in tt because they werent all that good in fotr

Pailan · 01-12-2002, 03:35 PM

Hello Marcus and welcome to the Ent moot.

I must disagree with you about the CGI in FotR. I found them to be Awesome and Fantastic. Can't imagine them getting all that much better, IMHO.

ragamuffin92 · 01-12-2002, 04:07 PM

I agree with you, Pailan. I can only think of one instance where I thought the graphics could have been improved a little, but for the most part, the CGIs were so good that I was able to lose myself in the movie, and not be conscious that what I was watching came out of a computer. The orc army in Moria, the Balrog, all the large-scale battle scenes, Isengard, were great, IMHO. I'm a little skeptical about seeing the ents, because they are so hard for me to conceptualize, but Mr. Jackson & Co. have shown great skill and imagination so far.

The end.

Starr Polish · 01-12-2002, 04:38 PM

Hmm...I'v eonly seen the movie once, but I'm going for my second viewing in a bout half an hour, and I've talked to SEVERAL people that are on their fifth or sixth time seeing it (which I plan to get around to doing).
Hmm.

CaranIstar · 01-13-2002, 04:06 AM

I watched it 4 times. Too long to watch multiple times? Yeah Right.

luinilwen · 01-13-2002, 04:16 AM

if it's about the commercialism surrounding it, the same thing happened to LOTR only it was a couple of decades ago, and i think we're going to get another surge of it verrrry soon...

i usually find that people who don't like harry potter are people who haven't even bothered to read the books (and get past the first one - they get better as they go!)

bropous · 01-14-2002, 09:45 PM

"In the United States and Canada, the film made $228.3 million after 26 days of release, boosted by ticket sales of $16.2 million during the three-day period beginning Jan. 11. The film took in about $280 million overseas.... "

Wooooo hooooo, Peter, it's GRAVY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!

Ali WHO????

A Beautiful WHAT??????

BLACKHAWK GOIN' DOWNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!

UP YOURS, "Academy"!!!!!!!

bropous · 01-14-2002, 09:49 PM

I, too, feel the criticism of the graphics in the film are unwarranted, Marcus.

Pailan · 01-18-2002, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ragamuffin92 [BI'm a little skeptical about seeing the ents, because they are so hard for me to conceptualize, but Mr. Jackson & Co. have shown great skill and imagination so far. [/B]

I imagine everyone here (being the Entmoot and all) is very interested in how Treebeard, the Ents, and the Hurons will be portrayed in TTT. I hope that it is masterfully done. My expectations have been raised.

Does anyone know of any "spy" shots of the Ents that may be floating around on the 'net?

Pailan · 07-05-2002, 04:40 PM

I just went and checked out the box office gross for "Fellowship of the Ring." It did OK.

In the USA it grossed $312,000,000 as of the end of June.

Worlwide (including the US) it has grossed $851,100,000. Not to shabby for a flick that cost about $95,000,000 to make (210,000,000 for all three). I guess this explains why some scenes are being re-shot for TTT.

***Ben*** · 07-05-2002, 11:59 PM

Did ok? It's in the top ten of all time domestically... and even higher worldwide

.

TTT is gonna be huge, or so I hope.

Pailan · 07-06-2002, 10:16 AM

Perhaps I was a little reserved in my comments.... It was number 2, world wide behind Harry Potter for 2001 releases. But I don't know how it compares to all time/world wide. Number 10 in the USA, but when inflation is taken into account, FotR, checks in at #64, behind the likes of "Smokey and the Bandit" and "My Fair Lady."

It will prove very interesting to see how TTT will fair compared to FotR. I suspect it will surpass FotR, and that RotK will be the champ, providing PJ with his first best picture Oscar.

bropous · 07-06-2002, 11:04 AM

Agreed on the Oscar, Pailan, we may have to wait til RotK for Peter to get his award, because of course we all know it is not a matter of who best deserves the Academy Award but a matter of whom the Academy feels it is time to win an award.

As for sales, $310 million domestic ain't shoddy for sure. The three films cost what, something like $280 million to make? It's all profit from here out. I wonder what New Line stock will look like to investors with that sort of cash flow. Hmmm.....

We'll have to wait and see the tale of the tape after the final release of the third film. I know I will be seeing the second and third films as much or more than I saw the first, and I saw it sixteen times meself [so much for a film too long to watch multiple times, Marcus, and Welcome to the Moot!].

What I am looking forward to are the nine-hour movie-sitting marathons I will endure once the entire film series can be viewed from beginning to end.

Then Hobbit, then Silmarillion, Peter!

Pailan · 07-06-2002, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bropous

As for sales, $310 million domestic ain't shoddy for sure. The three films cost what, something like $280 million to make? It's all profit from here out. I wonder what New Line stock will look like to investors with that sort of cash flow. Hmmm.....

And all the profit that New Line et al, will take with the multiple releases on dvd and vhs. Now those would be numbers to see around this Christmas!

AACHOO · 07-08-2002, 12:01 PM

Good place for all the movie totals...this page is part of the FotR section.

http://www.the-numbers.com/features/LRComparison.html

Another good site for the same stuff........

http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/

They both have pop-ups though.

01-12-2002, 07:57 AM	#21
*Fat middle* Mootis per forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Spain Posts: 61,439	i found this page that keep track of how the movie is doing comparing with Titanic, TPM and Harry Potter. Box Office After three weeks FOTR has never gain more than the others (excepting Titanic that begun very modestly). It seems that this weekend FOTR will do his 4th at the top (HP only got three top weekends) but i think that afterwards it will decrease very quickly: for most people it is too large a movie to be seen twice... So far, worlwide it's doing passing well. __________________ Do not be hasty. That is my motto. Now we'll have a drink and go to the Entmoot.

01-12-2002, 03:35 PM	#23
Pailan Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: aisle 12, seat#2 Posts: 449	Hello Marcus and welcome to the Ent moot. I must disagree with you about the CGI in FotR. I found them to be Awesome and Fantastic. Can't imagine them getting all that much better, IMHO. __________________ "Holy Entmoot, Batman!" "Who knows, Robin? This strange mixing of minds may be the greatest single sevice ever performed for humanity! Let's go, but, inconspicuosly, through the window. We'll use our Batropes. Our job is finished." Oh, btw, Frodo lives.

01-12-2002, 04:38 PM	#25
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	Too Long To Watch Multiple Times? Hmm...I'v eonly seen the movie once, but I'm going for my second viewing in a bout half an hour, and I've talked to SEVERAL people that are on their fifth or sixth time seeing it (which I plan to get around to doing). Hmm.

01-13-2002, 04:16 AM	#27
luinilwen Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sydney AUSTRALIA Posts: 368	hey what's everyone got against harry potter? if it's about the commercialism surrounding it, the same thing happened to LOTR only it was a couple of decades ago, and i think we're going to get another surge of it verrrry soon... i usually find that people who don't like harry potter are people who haven't even bothered to read the books (and get past the first one - they get better as they go!)

01-14-2002, 09:45 PM	#28
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	"In the United States and Canada, the film made $228.3 million after 26 days of release, boosted by ticket sales of $16.2 million during the three-day period beginning Jan. 11. The film took in about $280 million overseas.... " Wooooo hooooo, Peter, it's GRAVY TIME!!!!!!!!!!! Ali WHO???? A Beautiful WHAT?????? BLACKHAWK GOIN' DOWNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!! UP YOURS, "Academy"!!!!!!! __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-12-2002, 02:57 PM	#22
Marcus Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 18	with all the money are they going to make the graphics better in tt because they werent all that good in fotr

01-12-2002, 04:07 PM	#24
ragamuffin92 Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: New York State Posts: 309	I agree with you, Pailan. I can only think of one instance where I thought the graphics could have been improved a little, but for the most part, the CGIs were so good that I was able to lose myself in the movie, and not be conscious that what I was watching came out of a computer. The orc army in Moria, the Balrog, all the large-scale battle scenes, Isengard, were great, IMHO. I'm a little skeptical about seeing the ents, because they are so hard for me to conceptualize, but Mr. Jackson & Co. have shown great skill and imagination so far. The end.

01-13-2002, 04:06 AM	#26
CaranIstar Hobbit Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 32	I watched it 4 times. Too long to watch multiple times? Yeah Right.

01-14-2002, 09:49 PM	#29
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	I, too, feel the criticism of the graphics in the film are unwarranted, Marcus. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

07-05-2002, 04:40 PM	#31
Pailan Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: aisle 12, seat#2 Posts: 449	I just went and checked out the box office gross for "Fellowship of the Ring." It did OK. In the USA it grossed $312,000,000 as of the end of June. Worlwide (including the US) it has grossed $851,100,000. Not to shabby for a flick that cost about $95,000,000 to make (210,000,000 for all three). I guess this explains why some scenes are being re-shot for TTT. __________________ "Holy Entmoot, Batman!" "Who knows, Robin? This strange mixing of minds may be the greatest single sevice ever performed for humanity! Let's go, but, inconspicuosly, through the window. We'll use our Batropes. Our job is finished." Oh, btw, Frodo lives.

07-05-2002, 11:59 PM	#32
*Ben* Retired Ent Join Date: Sep 1999 Posts: 60,631	Did ok? It's in the top ten of all time domestically... and even higher worldwide . TTT is gonna be huge, or so I hope. __________________ ---Ben formerly known in the forums as bmilder Owner of The Tolkien Trail and Entmoot. Buy Entmoot shirts and mugs!

07-06-2002, 10:16 AM	#33
Pailan Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: aisle 12, seat#2 Posts: 449	Perhaps I was a little reserved in my comments.... It was number 2, world wide behind Harry Potter for 2001 releases. But I don't know how it compares to all time/world wide. Number 10 in the USA, but when inflation is taken into account, FotR, checks in at #64, behind the likes of "Smokey and the Bandit" and "My Fair Lady." It will prove very interesting to see how TTT will fair compared to FotR. I suspect it will surpass FotR, and that RotK will be the champ, providing PJ with his first best picture Oscar. __________________ "Holy Entmoot, Batman!" "Who knows, Robin? This strange mixing of minds may be the greatest single sevice ever performed for humanity! Let's go, but, inconspicuosly, through the window. We'll use our Batropes. Our job is finished." Oh, btw, Frodo lives. Last edited by Pailan : 07-06-2002 at 10:19 AM.

07-06-2002, 11:04 AM	#34
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Agreed on the Oscar, Pailan, we may have to wait til RotK for Peter to get his award, because of course we all know it is not a matter of who best deserves the Academy Award but a matter of whom the Academy feels it is time to win an award. As for sales, $310 million domestic ain't shoddy for sure. The three films cost what, something like $280 million to make? It's all profit from here out. I wonder what New Line stock will look like to investors with that sort of cash flow. Hmmm..... We'll have to wait and see the tale of the tape after the final release of the third film. I know I will be seeing the second and third films as much or more than I saw the first, and I saw it sixteen times meself [so much for a film too long to watch multiple times, Marcus, and Welcome to the Moot!]. What I am looking forward to are the nine-hour movie-sitting marathons I will endure once the entire film series can be viewed from beginning to end. Then Hobbit, then Silmarillion, Peter! __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

07-08-2002, 12:01 PM	#36
AACHOO Enting Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 52	Good place for all the movie totals...this page is part of the FotR section. http://www.the-numbers.com/features/LRComparison.html Another good site for the same stuff........ http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/ They both have pop-ups though.

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