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THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Crosses One Billion Dollars And Still Climbing
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY has officially surpassed the billion dollar milestone at the worldwide box office. To date, the blockbuster has earned $301.4 million domestically. With its recent release in China, where it has grossed $37.3 million in 10 days, the film has earned a staggering estimated $700 million internationally, for a global total of $1 billion to date.
Becoming only the 15th film in history to exceed one billion dollars worldwide, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY recently earned three Oscar® nominations, for Best Production Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Visual Effects.
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From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY is the first of a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The three films tell a continuous story set in Middle-earth 60 years before “The Lord of the Rings,” which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the Oscar®-winning THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING.
The second film in “The Hobbit” Trilogy, THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, will be released on December 13, 2013 and the final chapter, THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN, will hit theaters on the new date – December 17, 2014.
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The film stars Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt, Ken Stott, Sylvester McCoy, Barry Humphries, Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood and Andy Serkis.
The screenplay for THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY is by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson & Guillermo del Toro, based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Jackson also produced the film, together with Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner and Fran Walsh. The executive producers are Alan Horn, Toby Emmerich, Ken Kamins and Carolyn Blackwood, with Boyens and Eileen Moran serving as co-producers.
New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Present a WingNut Films Production,THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY. All three films in “The Hobbit” Trilogy, also including THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, and the final film, THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN, are productions of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), with New Line managing production. Warner Bros. Pictures is handling worldwide theatrical distribution, with select international territories as well as all international television distribution being handled by MGM.
The joint announcement was made today by Toby Emmerich, President and Chief Operating Officer, New Line Cinema; Gary Barber, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios; Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures; and Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.
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MARTIN FREEMAN as the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins in New Line Cinema’s and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s fantasy adventure “THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Mark Pokorny.
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