If youve got a hobbit, youve got a hit on your hands. That seems to be the lesson from Peter Jacksons seemingly never-ending but now officially finishing series of films set in Middle Earth. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was perhaps the single most ambitious endeavour in the history of cinema, and one of the most successful. New Zealand-native Jackson brought an enormous cast and crew to his homeland for 15 consecutive months of filming, and the man himself spent almost eight years labouring away on the project. It would all prove worthwhile: the trilogy made almost $3 billion, with The Return of the King also garnering an amazing 11 Oscars one for each category in which it was nominated. The prequel series of Hobbit films, with Martin Freemans Bilbo Baggins front and centre, have demonstrated that the appetite for Jacksons superbly crafted fantasy adventure films is not yet quenched: the first two films averaged a billion apiece, and its difficult to see The Battle of the Five Armies earning much less. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSzeFFsKEt4 Why the Guardians should be worried: No film starring a halfling has deigned to stoop to such a pathetic sum as the $700 million or so that Guardians will probably end up on. Its next to impossible that the final instalment of the Middle Earth saga will experience such a sizeable fall from grace as would be necessary for it to finish behind the Marvel movie these films are from a different galaxy. Which ones will you be going to see? Feel free to share your thoughts below.
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