{"id":247159,"date":"2026-01-20T00:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247159\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:49:08","slug":"lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-25th-anniversary-grosses-11-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247159\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Lord Of The Rings’ Trilogy 25th Anniversary Grosses $11 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhile Lord of the Rings<\/a> fans are waiting for the next installment in the franchise \u2014 the Andy Serkis<\/a>-directed The Hunt for Gollum in December 2027<\/a> \u2014 they returned to cinemas this weekend to see Peter Jackson\u2019s 25th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) as well as its two sequels, The Two Towers from 2002 and Return of the King from 2003.<\/p>\n

\n\tCombined, the entire re-issue of the New Line trilogy via Fathom Entertainment did $9 million at the domestic box office this frame, with another $1.5M from offshore markets for a combined global weekend of $10.5M.<\/p>\n

\n\tBroken out, Fellowship of the Rings did $3.85M over four days, while Two Towers did $2.64M (it began showtimes Saturday) and Return of the King made $2.5M since Sunday.<\/p>\n

\n\tOriginally only booked for two weekends \u2014 January 16-18 and January 23-25 \u2014 each title was to play on a particular day, e.g.,\u00a0The Fellowship of the Ring\u00a0on Friday,\u00a0The Two Towers\u00a0on Saturday, and\u00a0The\u00a0Return of the King\u00a0on Sunday. But by fan demand, movie chains added additional days, locations and marathons.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn honor of the 25th anniversary of the theatrical release, Jackson recorded never-before-seen intros for each title in the trilogy.\u00a0AMC, Regal and select circuits were selling limited popcorn-branded popcorn buckets to celebrate live-action screen takes of the J.R.R. Tolkien novels.<\/p>\n

\n\tFathom and Warner Bros\u2019 New Line previously teamed in 2024 on a theatrical rerelease of the trilogy and grossed $8.2M at the domestic box office over three weekends.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe multi-Oscar-winning team behind the blockbuster\u00a0The\u00a0Lord of the Rings\u00a0and\u00a0The Hobbit\u00a0trilogies\u00a0\u2014 Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens\u00a0\u2014 is reuniting to produce two new films from Tolkien\u2019s Middle-earth for Warner Bros and New Line Cinema.\u00a0Zane Weiner is also producing.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lifetime cume for the entire\u00a0Lord of the Rings\u00a0and\u00a0Hobbit\u00a0live-action movies through six titles counts north of $5.9 billion at the global box office. <\/p>\n

\n\tWalsh and Boyens are writing the screenplay for Hunt for Gollum, along with\u00a0Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou. Ian McKellen announced he was coming back as Gandalf, Serkis (natch) as Gollum, and Elijah Wood as Frodo.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlurb for Hunt for Gollum: The pic explores Aragorn\u2019s adventures as a ranger, specifically his quest to capture Gollum between The Hobbit and Fellowship of the Ring, tracking him to keep the Ring\u2019s location from Sauron.<\/p>\n

\n\tCameras are expected to roll in May. The Hunt for Gollum opens on December 17, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Lord of the Rings fans are waiting for the next installment in the franchise \u2014 the Andy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[99466,146,85,46,75710,397,132347],"class_list":{"0":"post-247159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-andy-serkis","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-lord-of-the-rings","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}