‘The Hobbit’ sets December box office record
Posted December 17, 2012 7:33 am.
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Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey set a December box office record, raking in US $84.8 million in its opening weekend.
The first film in the second Lord of the Rings trilogy beat out 2007’s I Am Legend, which made $77.2 million, according to film-tracking website boxofficemojo.com.
The Hobbit crushed the No. 2 and No. 3 movies, out-earning Rise of the Guardians and Lincoln by $80 million.
Rise of the Guardians, an animated fantasy movie, made $7.4 million. Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln made $7.2
million.
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