Monday 15 December 2014

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Watch The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Online Free  We, the public, have been visiting Peter Jackson’s cinematic Middle-earth on and off for 14 years. But Mr. Jackson has been immersed in the process of adapting author J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantastical world for the better part of the last 18 years, since he first convinced Hollywood to trust his vision and invest in an unprecedented huge simultaneous three-film production spanning several years. That bet paid off, with the $281 million budget (covering all three films) launching one of the most successful and critically acclaimed franchises in cinema history, spawning a second equally successful trilogy. To date, the six Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films have amassed a stunning $5 billion in worldwide box office, and several hundred million more dollars in Blu-ray/DVD rentals and sales. And the sixth film hasn’t even really gotten started at the box office yet. But it’s about to, and it’s gonna be a doozy. The Hobbit Battle 5 Armies 16 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies hits domestic theaters December 17th, although it has already opened in Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland, and New Zealand, and opens in most other foreign countries this weekend. As the last entry in the cinematic Tolkien universe, this film is going to at least match the performance of the previous entry in the series. That movie — The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — grossed $950 million around the world. Meaning the smart money should be on The Battle of the Five Armies to do in the neighborhood of $1 billion. Let’s get a few things out of the way right off the bat. There are going to be a lot of people anxiously hoping for a weak opening domestic weekend, ready to declare just about anything a failure or underperformance because such headlines and grim pronouncements attract attention and generate link clicks. The first two Hobbit films had the two highest opening weekends of the entire six-film series so far, and both grossed more than the first two installments of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Yet despite those big opening weekend numbers, the additional ticket pricing for 3D, and the immense anticipation worldwide for the Hobbit films in the aftermath of the mega-success of the first trilogy, there were a ridiculous number of people walking around insisting that the Hobbit movies might flop, looked likely to underperform, and so on. What happened is simple: Jackson delivered an incredibly brilliant and wildly successful film trilogy, and so like any artist who has great success he became the target of backlash as a certain predictable segment of folks in the press and just the population at large waited for him to fail and rooted for it to happen. They aren’t a majority, obviously, since the love for the films clearly outweighs the hate of the detractors. But they are a loud bunch, and they do their mightiest to sway the discussion and push the negative narrative. Luckily for Jackson and the studios, few people standing in line to buy theater tickets pay any mind to such voices. What should we expect for opening weekend here at home? I’d think $65 million is the lowest end of expectations, if the film suffers from diminished enthusiasm and 2014′s generally slightly lower domestic turnout, plus perhaps larger than expected loss of target audience to other films. The high end of expectations is probably somewhere in the range of $85 million, if the film’s “final entry” status helps it enjoy the same intense anticipation that accompanied the release of the very first Hobbit movie after so much Lord of the Rings good will. Which leaves $75 million as the middle number, and $70-75 million as the safest moderate estimate. Long term isn’t hard to figure out here. Let’s say it opens on the lighter side, to the tune of $65-70 million. And let’s say it has a particularly weak domestic run in the $220 million range. These films always — ALWAYS — make about twice as much overseas as they do at home. The last two films have topped 70% of receipts coming from foreign markets. But let’s say The Battle of the Five Armies merely does the average of 66%. That would mean it’s lowest possible box office would be $660 million. That’s the equivalent of a “flop” for this series, with the lowest opening, lowest multiplier, and diminished domestic-to-foreign ratio.

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