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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002 PG-13 2h 59m Adventure, Drama, Fantasy New Line Cinema

The journey continues.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Box Office

Opening Weekend
$62.0M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$340M
Final
Worldwide Total
$923M
$583M international
Domestic Legs5.48x
Budget$94.0M
2002 Rank#2
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 20-22 1 $62.01M $102.05M 3,622 $17.1K 1
Dec 27-29 1 $48.88M -21.2% $200.06M 3,622 $13.5K 2
Jan 3-5 1 $25.02M -48.8% $261.03M 3,622 $6.9K 3
Jan 10-12 2 $14.76M -41.0% $283.42M 3,477 $4.2K 4
Jan 17-19 5 $10.27M -30.4% $297.89M 3,110 $3.3K 5
Jan 24-26 5 $6.61M -35.6% $308.82M 2,666 $2.5K 6
Jan 31-Feb 2 7 $5.09M -23.0% $316.03M 2,175 $2.3K 7
Feb 7-9 10 $3.52M -30.9% $320.86M 1,680 $2.1K 8
Feb 14-16 12 $3.07M -12.6% $324.92M 1,422 $2.2K 9
Feb 21-23 14 $1.93M -37.3% $328.16M 925 $2.1K 10
Feb 28-Mar 2 15 $1.62M -15.9% $330.34M 905 $1.8K 11
Mar 7-9 16 $1.23M -24.1% $332.08M 703 $1.7K 12
Mar 14-16 16 $1.01M -17.4% $333.62M 612 $1.7K 13
Mar 21-23 20 $769K -24.3% $334.79M 518 $1.5K 14
Mar 28-30 19 $624K -18.9% $335.80M 425 $1.5K 15
Apr 4-6 21 $480K -23.1% $336.50M 345 $1.4K 16
Apr 11-13 25 $340K -29.1% $337.01M 332 $1.0K 17
Apr 18-20 25 $352K +3.4% $337.53M 324 $1.1K 18
Apr 25-27 28 $247K -29.8% $337.95M 269 $918 19
May 2-4 32 $186K -24.6% $338.23M 225 $828 20
May 9-11 32 $152K -18.6% $338.46M 190 $798 21
May 16-18 33 $102K -33.1% $338.62M 163 $622 22
May 23-25 32 $116K +14.7% $338.79M 135 $862 23
May 30-Jun 1 34 $89K -23.2% $338.96M 111 $805 24
Jun 6-8 38 $82K -8.2% $339.10M 115 $714 25
Jun 13-15 41 $74K -9.4% $339.23M 103 $722 26
Jun 20-22 43 $60K -19.9% $339.34M 101 $590 27

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byPeter Jackson
ScreenplayPeter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, Fran Walsh
Produced byBarrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson
CinematographyAndrew Lesnie
MusicHoward Shore
StarringElijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, John Rhys-Davies
StudioNew Line Cinema

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