ANALYSTS PREDICT FINAL 'RINGS' FILM WILL BE BOX-OFFICE KING.Byline: Greg Hernandez Staff Writer The nation's box-office blues could disappear overnight with the bow of the highly anticipated epic ``The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,'' which hits theaters today at midnight. The third chapter of the trilogy A company founded in 1979 by Gene Amdahl to commercialize wafer scale integration and build supercomputers. It raised a quarter of a billion dollars, the largest startup funding in history, but could not create its 2.5" superchip. from New Line Cinema will be on more than 7,000 screens, which should make its running time of 3 hours and 21 minutes a nonissue non·is·sue n. A matter of so little import that it ought not to become a focus of controversy and comment: She felt that the matter of her attire should have been a nonissue. in terms of posting some December record opening-weekend grosses, analysts said Monday. ``Clearly it's the picture with the highest want-to-see for this holiday season,'' said John Shaw John Shaw may refer to any of the following people:
New Line has every reason to be confident that ``Return'' will be an immediate blockbuster block·bust·er n. 1. Something, such as a film or book, that sustains widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales. 2. A high-explosive bomb used for demolition purposes. 3. . A year ago, the second film in the ``Lord of the Rings'' series, ``The Two Towers,'' took in $27.5 million the first day on its way to a whopping five-day gross of $102 million. The film went on to earn $339.8 million domestically. The ``Rings'' trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson Jackson. 1 City (1990 pop. 37,446), seat of Jackson co., S Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1857. It is an industrial and commercial center in a farm region. and based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, was filmed at the same time and the first chapter, ``The Fellowship fellowship Graduate education A post-residency training period of 1–2 yrs in a subspecialty–eg, hand surgery, which allows a specialized physician to develop a particular expertise that may have a related subspecialty board; fellowship time is often of the Ring,'' exceeded expectations with $313.4 million in grosses. ``(`King') is going to do over $300 million, that's written in the wind,'' Shaw said. ``New Line bet the farm on this series and came up and won.'' Advance online tickets sales have been record-setting for Los Angeles- based Fandango fandango (făndăng`gō), ancient Spanish dance, probably of Moorish origin, that came into Europe in the 17th cent. It is in triple time and is danced by a single couple to the accompaniment of castanets, guitar, and songs sung by the Inc., which began selling tickets for ``King'' on Dec. 1. Fandango sold 3.5 percent of the opening-weekend tickets for ``Fellowship'' and 6 percent of those for ``Towers.'' The service projects that it will be selling about five tickets per second later this week as demand reaches a fever pitch fever pitch n. A state of extreme agitation or excitement. fever pitch Noun a state of intense excitement Noun 1. . ```Two Towers' was the first sequel to outgross its predecessor,'' said Brandon Gray, editor of Boxofficemojo.com. ``If the trend continues, we could be seeing $75 million for the three-day totals for 'Return of the King.''' The latest installment in the ``Rings'' trilogy will come just in time to restore some much-needed luster to the box office. Overall attendance for the top 12 films last weekend was down 8 percent from the same weekend the year before. ``This is the calm before the storm that is 'The Lord of the Rings,''' said box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations Co. Greg Hernandez, (818) 713-3758 greg.hernandez(at)dailynews.com |
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