The Hobbit’s last journey into the hearts of cinema-goers has just started its route. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and its 17 December 2014 release kept us counting for the days left until the mid of December, but our struggle is now repaid by the highly awaited event. That the last of the ‘’Hobbits’’ was expected by many and with quite the anxiety is proven even by the numbers surrounding the picture: around $24.5 Million, box office articles mentioned and Box Office Mojo shares more accurate numbers, the reached total being of $24,452,117.
The above mentioned large cashing of the last Hobbit is reported to be gained in 3,875 opening locations and the sum in the title is reached with the aid of Tuesday night pre-shows, which made up a total of $11.2 million. The last Hobbit picture was given the predicted sum of $70-75 million for the first five days from its release and its opening figures seem no to disappoint the box office predictions, after all. In a related article, Variety also makes a connection with the large overseas cashing of the franchise, which indicates a total of $122.2 million. Odds are great for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, which can already be mentioned as a weekend box office top title. Peter Jackson’s thrilling adventure into the world of mystery is given a privileged place on the list of non-Friday openings and in correlation with its Hobbit predecessors, The Battle of the Five Armies is the only one which debuted on Wednesday, the previous pictures being Friday-tagged.
The great number of almost $24.5 million gives The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies a great advantage in the fight for the top position in the weekend box office and also in the holiday box office and it is probably this Wednesday gain the one which will propel the sequel into the leading position of the charts. A tough fight for the leading positions in the box office is evidently estimated, as the Friday of 19 December 2014 marks the opening of numerous highly expected pictures like Will Gluck’s Annie or Shawn Levy’s Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.