Thursday Update: Warner’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies debuted with $24.45 million on Wednesday. That figure includes the estimated $11.2 million the film grossed from Tuesday night shows (which represented a very significant 45.8 percent of the film’s opening day gross).
The Battle of the Five Armies opened 22 percent below the $31.19 million opening day performance of last year’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, though that was expected given that The Desolation of Smaug opened on a Friday. The Battle of the Five Armies opened 6.5 percent below the $26.16 million Wednesday start of 2002’s The Two Towers, which went on to gross $102.05 million in its first five days of release. Given that The Battle of the Five Armies will likely experience more initial front-loading in comparison; the last chapter of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy appears to be on course for a five-day start in the area of $88 million to $95 million.
Wednesday Update: Warner Bros. reports that The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies earned $11.2 million from Tuesday evening shows. That’s quite a bit more than the $8.8 million that The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug posted from evening shows on Thursday, December 12, 2013.
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