If you’re a regular listener to the official THN podcast The Hollywood Booze (online every Friday folks), then you will know that I’m not the world’s biggest fan of THE HOBBIT. I saw the first film in the planned trilogy (Zzzzz) a few weeks ago, and I cannot remember the last time that I experienced a cinema outing as an endurance exercise. However, I know that there are millions of Hobbit and LOTR fans out there, and I can’t wait to meet some of you this summer at Comic Con.
The news this morning is that the Peter Jackson directed THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY has just passed the $1 billion point in box-office sales, so I guess we can consider the movie a success for Warner Brothers…?
Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution for Warner Bros. said:
“From Berlin to Beijing, it is so gratifying to see how the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been such an event with audiences around the world. We know that moviegoers everywhere are already excited about the next film, as are we.”
The movie is only the 15th film EVER to have passed the $1 billion mark around the world, so I tip my hat, but it is also the second this year after the truly wonderful Bond epic SKYFALL.
The next Hobbit movie THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG is released on the 13th December 2013 with the third and final pic THERE AND BACK AGAIN arriving a year later on 14th December 2014.
Source: EW
