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'The Hobbit' Breaks Box Office Records

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    FBN's Dennis Kneale on the $84 million opening weekend for 'The Hobbit'.

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The power of the hub at the -- opening this weekend with a rectal breaking ticket sales taking after its sister film musicals The Lord of the Rings dentist bill.

Lord of the media here.

Us yet you know what actually and it is as if the -- that was the only kill and found.

At theaters this weekend has -- prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy set an all time record high at the box office for any film opening in December.

The Warner Bros.

geek -- -- to almost 85 million dollars -- US box office.

Of more than the opening weekend for any of the three Lord of the Rings films that preceded it -- Warner Bros.

distributes -- -- it.

The stock -- it's parents Time Warner.

Up 2% today are so the debut this weekend answering the question of whether fans.

Are still keen on the ratings a full decade after the trilogy first begin -- the hot but in -- took in three times as much money at the US box office this weekend as the four other top films this weekend combined.

For DreamWorks lose a rise of the guardian Sony's James Bond -- -- fall.

Disney's Oscar worthy Lincoln and that fox the life of -- Bring in like five to seven million dollars apiece over the weekend after the cooling -- by the way like apply becoming one of the few American films ever to bring -- even more ticket sales in the China market.

That in the US now -- -- and -- -- in worldwide told 223 million dollars.

Over the weekend that already basically 14 of the way.

Toward the billion dollar market first film premiered December 01 hit almost 870 million dollars second 12 towers.

Clear that 900 million dollar mark the third entry return of the kings.

Without half a billion and now the -- it could well beat all three of them actually I would bet against it -- -- -- thank you settlement effective stuff.

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