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(The Lord of the Rings) 1937 $8.46 billion: Retail sales – $1.5 billion [291] [292] Box office – $5.968 billion [293] Home media – $995 million [294] Novel J. R. R. Tolkien: Tolkien Estate (books) Middle-earth Enterprises (Embracer Freemode) (ownership of IP outside of books)
The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by English author J. R. R. Tolkien.The films are titled identically to the three volumes of the novel: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003).
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy became the highest grossing motion picture trilogy worldwide of all time, evidenced by its earning close to $3-billion (US). [121] Critics have hailed the trilogy as "the greatest films of our era," [122] and "the trilogy will not soon, if ever, find its equal." [123]
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: $1,150,779,825 ... the United Kingdom and Germany up to the end of 2015 but omits earnings in Turkey, Iceland, Brazil ...
The Lord of the Rings is an epic [1] high fantasy novel [a] written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in Middle-earth , the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book The Hobbit but eventually developed into a much larger work.
The Return of the King is not only an extremely satisfying finale to the Lord of the Rings franchise; it's also considered one of the greatest films of all time, ranking among the top 30 highest ...
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: 88.7 2001 7 * Star Wars: The Last Jedi: 84.7 2017 8 Toy Story 3: 84.1 2010 9: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: 82.2 2003 10 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2: 82.0 2011 Films marked as * are classified as UK-qualifying productions by the British Film Institute.