The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug OS Thread

[Olive]

Box Office Mojo ‏@boxofficemojo  38s

'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' has now earned $944 million worldwide: http://bit.ly/1gqMTMO  #boxoffice

 

OS: $686,400,000

[zackzack]

Sure it can do $10M more?

[pepsa]

Does someone believes that i still could reach 700M cause it don't look good at this point. Or do I get this wrong?

[zackzack]

Does someone believes that i still could reach 700M cause it don't look good at this point. Or do I get this wrong?

It's on its last leg of the tour

[Elessar]

BOM updated foreign gross: $691m. Can it still hit $700m? Gonna be close...

[picores]

Dont think so. In fact, i would not be surprised if BOM never update the number again.

[Elessar]

It's still gonna do a couple millions in Japan, i don't think it's the end of the updates. That said, i'm also leaning towards no regarding $700m, legs in Japan are probably not good enough.

Edited March 27, 2014 by Elessar

[John Marston]

Guess it depends how it is doing over Japanese spring break

[Juby]

Final number:

 

+ Foreign:

 $692,100,000  72.8%

[Omni]

WOM really kicked in!

[kayumanggi]

 

Final number:

 

+ Foreign:

 $692,100,000  72.8%

 

 

Final?

[kayumanggi]

[keysersoze123]

Legs in japan were absolutely atrocious. Very rarely does a blockbuster have this horrible legs. So much for DOS having "stronger" WOM.

[Noctis]

Legs in japan were absolutely atrocious. Very rarely does a blockbuster have this horrible legs. So much for DOS having "stronger" WOM.

 

It didn't have stronger WOM. 

 

There were large drops in so many countries but it managed to stay almost on par due to the big increase in China.

[kayumanggi]

Legs in japan were absolutely atrocious. Very rarely does a blockbuster have this horrible legs. So much for DOS having "stronger" WOM.

 

I think the legs were ok. It's just that the opening was terrible even if it had ok/good legs, it didn't really make any difference.

[Olive]

Opening and legs were both terrible.

[baumer]

I'm really baffled by the love this film gets.  I understand the love of the original trilogy.  But the Hobbit, imo, is so different from the originals, it's all CGI, it's quite boring throughout and there aren't any of the fun characters to root for from the first.  all my opinion of course.  But the success of the Hobbit films is really confusing to me.

[Noctis]

I'm really baffled by the love this film gets.  I understand the love of the original trilogy.  But the Hobbit, imo, is so different from the originals, it's all CGI, it's quite boring throughout and there aren't any of the fun characters to root for from the first.  all my opinion of course.  But the success of the Hobbit films is really confusing to me.

 

The drop from LoTR films is enormous when it comes to admissions. 

Edited April 13, 2014 by Noctis

[baumer]

The drop from LoTR films is enormous when it comes to admissions. 

 

Yes, this is true.  But not many films make a billion dollars or close to it.  This film is still immensely popular in most markets.

[Noctis]

Yes, this is true.  But not many films make a billion dollars or close to it.  This film is still immensely popular in most markets.

 

Of course. It's based on one of the most well known children's book and it has the following from LoTR.