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Tolkien has grossed $4.5 million in the United States, [23] and $4.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $9 million. [3] In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Poms and The Hustle, and was projected to gross $2–4 million from 1,425 theaters in its opening weekend. [24]
In 1956, Tolkien was approached by the American agent Forrest J. Ackerman about producing an animated film based on Tolkien's work for the amateur screenwriter Morton Grady Zimmerman. Ackerman showed Tolkien artwork by Ron Cobb and pitched Zimmerman's synopsis, which proposed a three-hour film with two intermissions.
The Finnish film director Dome Karukoski's 2019 biographical drama film Tolkien narrates Tolkien's early life and wartime experiences. It depicts him in delirium with trench fever on the front line, [ 39 ] beginning "to hallucinate scenes from the books he is yet to write", [ 40 ] and thus visually linking the war to his legendarium.
Tolkien disparaged this dramatisation, referring to the portrayal of Tom Bombadil as "dreadful" and complaining bitterly about several other aspects. [11] The recordings were lost, but in 2022 the original scripts by the producer Terence Tiller, including a sheet with handwritten suggestions by Tolkien, were rediscovered in the BBC archives. [10]
This list does not include documentaries, short films. This list of movies is not a list of Napoleon movies. This includes films about Napoleon's life after ≈1799. About Napoleon's life before ≈1799, see the List of films set during the French Revolution and French Revolutionary Wars.
Born of Hope: The Ring of Barahir (often referred to as simply Born of Hope) is a 2009 British fantasy adventure fan film directed by Kate Madison and written by Paula DiSante (as Alex K. Aldridge) based on the appendices of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954–55 novel The Lord of the Rings.
Films about Napoleon, Emperor of the French (1769-1821, reigned 1804-1814, 1815). Pages in category "Films about Napoleon" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings is a 2004 collection of essays edited by Janet Brennan Croft on Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings in his 2001–2003 film trilogy based on J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy book.