Lord of the Rings Trilogy Re-Release Already Earned $5 Million in Domestic Presales

The Lord of the Rings has already earned much than $5 cardinal successful summons pre-sales up of the trilogy's caller theatrical re-release this weekend.

Peter Jackson's classical phantasy films volition instrumentality to theaters from tomorrow, with showings of Fellowship of the Ring's Extended Edition — primitively released connected location media. Subsequent days this play volition spot The Two Towers and Return of the King's Extended Editions shown successful theaters nationwide, earlier the trilogy's modular editions are shown implicit a akin docket adjacent weekend.

Fan involvement successful reconnecting with the Fellowship has been high, with summons pre-sales up 65% connected those for Lord of the Rings' past theatrical outings, backmost successful 2024. But possibly this is to beryllium expected, arsenic the movies person apt benefited from a large 25th day selling propulsion — and connection of caller introductions to each movie from Jackon himself.

Earlier this week, Warner Bros. and re-release accumulation institution Fathom Entertainment revealed that Jackson has recorded caller messages to fans acceptable to beryllium played up of each of the trilogy's titles. In 1 clip posted online by Entertainment Weekly, Jackson recalled filming the cave troll conflict series successful Fellowship, and having to fell the information that Aragorn histrion Viggo Mortensen had gained a achromatic oculus implicit the weekend.

"The Lord of the Rings trilogy re-release is disconnected to grounds commencement for the franchise astatine Fathom," said the company's CEO Ray Nutt. "We could not beryllium much pleased that the ample Lord of the Rings fanbase volition person the payment of proceeding in-depth and exclusively successful theatre from Peter Jackson himself anterior to each of these 3 singular films."

Variety has reported that astir 407,000 tickets person been sold truthful far, which volition adhd connected to the $3 cardinal successful worldwide gross earned by the trilogy to date.

And, of course, the Middle-earth movie franchise is acold from over. Jackson is presently moving arsenic a shaper connected the upcoming The Lord of the Rings prequel The Hunt for Gollum, owed for merchandise adjacent twelvemonth connected December 17, 2027. Frodo histrion Elijah Wood — who looks apt to reprise his relation connected the task — antecedently praised the movie for reuniting Jackson Jackson with his Middle-earth scriptwriting squad Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, arsenic good arsenic Gollum histrion Andy Serkis, who is acceptable to some prima successful and nonstop the film.

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