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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001 PG-13 2h 58m Adventure, Drama, Fantasy New Line Cinema

One ring to rule them all.

Compare to other movies
Domestic Total
$313M
Final
Opening Weekend
$47.2M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
6.64x
Opening → Total
Budget
$93.0M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$868M
$555M international
2001 Rank
#2
Domestic

Box Office Performance

Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 21-23 1 $47.2M $75.1M 3,359 $14K 1
Dec 28-30 1 $38.7M -18.0% $155.9M 3,359 $12K 2
Jan 4-6 1 $23.0M -40.5% $205.5M 3,381 $7K 3
Jan 11-13 1 $16.2M -29.6% $228.3M 3,381 $5K 4
Jan 18-20 3 $12.5M -23.0% $245.4M 3,266 $4K 5
Jan 25-27 8 $7.8M -37.4% $258.4M 2,703 $3K 6
Feb 1-3 8 $5.7M -26.9% $266.3M 2,309 $2K 7
Feb 8-10 Salt Lake Olympics 11 $3.6M -36.6% $271.4M 1,706 $2K 8
Feb 15-17 Salt Lake Olympics 12 $4.7M +29.9% $277.6M 1,507 $3K 9
Feb 22-24 Salt Lake Olympics 12 $3.5M -26.5% $283.2M 1,510 $2K 10
Mar 1-3 10 $3.3M -4.0% $287.6M 1,303 $3K 11
Mar 8-10 10 $2.7M -19.1% $291.1M 1,210 $2K 12
Mar 15-17 11 $2.1M -21.1% $294.3M 1,101 $2K 13
Mar 22-24 11 $2.4M +11.6% $297.5M 1,317 $2K 14
Mar 29-31 12 $2.4M +0.8% $301.3M 1,120 $2K 15
Apr 5-7 12 $1.7M -27.0% $304.1M 977 $2K 16
Apr 12-14 15 $1.2M -29.9% $305.8M 868 $1K 17
Apr 19-21 17 $772K -36.7% $307.0M 706 $1K 18
Apr 26-28 17 $798K +3.4% $308.1M 529 $2K 19
May 3-5 22 $452K -43.4% $308.8M 408 $1K 20
May 10-12 19 $502K +11.2% $309.5M 440 $1K 21
May 17-19 18 $412K -18.1% $310.1M 418 $984 22
May 24-26 15 $359K -12.9% $310.6M 335 $1K 23
May 31-Jun 2 World Cup (Korea/Japan) 21 $225K -37.3% $311.1M 259 $867 24
Jun 7-9 World Cup (Korea/Japan) 23 $223K -0.7% $311.4M 239 $933 25
Jun 14-16 World Cup (Korea/Japan) 25 $179K -19.8% $311.7M 221 $809 26
Jun 21-23 World Cup (Korea/Japan) 28 $157K -12.4% $312.0M 214 $732 27
Jun 28-30 World Cup (Korea/Japan) 29 $149K -4.8% $312.3M 185 $806 28
Jul 5-7 34 $150K +0.8% $312.5M 167 $900 29
Jul 12-14 33 $115K -23.8% $312.8M 160 $715 30
Jul 19-21 34 $106K -7.3% $313.0M 140 $758 31
Jul 26-28 40 $81K -23.6% $313.1M 102 $795 32
Aug 2-4 43 $69K -14.9% $313.2M 107 $645 33

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Profitability

Return on Budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byPeter Jackson
ScreenplayPeter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh
StarringElijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Ian Holm, Liv Tyler
StudioNew Line Cinema