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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.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Box Office

Opening Weekend
$47.2M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$313M
Final
Worldwide Total
$868M
$555M international
Domestic Legs6.64x
Budget$93.0M
2001 Rank#2
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 21-23 1 $47.21M $75.13M 3,359 $14.1K 1
Dec 28-30 1 $38.70M -18.0% $155.86M 3,359 $11.5K 2
Jan 4-6 1 $23.01M -40.5% $205.51M 3,381 $6.8K 3
Jan 11-13 1 $16.20M -29.6% $228.32M 3,381 $4.8K 4
Jan 18-20 3 $12.47M -23.0% $245.42M 3,266 $3.8K 5
Jan 25-27 8 $7.80M -37.4% $258.45M 2,703 $2.9K 6
Feb 1-3 8 $5.70M -26.9% $266.27M 2,309 $2.5K 7
Feb 8-10 11 $3.62M -36.6% $271.42M 1,706 $2.1K 8
Feb 15-17 12 $4.70M +29.9% $277.64M 1,507 $3.1K 9
Feb 22-24 12 $3.46M -26.5% $283.19M 1,510 $2.3K 10
Mar 1-3 10 $3.32M -4.0% $287.57M 1,303 $2.5K 11
Mar 8-10 10 $2.68M -19.1% $291.15M 1,210 $2.2K 12
Mar 15-17 11 $2.12M -21.1% $294.34M 1,101 $1.9K 13
Mar 22-24 11 $2.36M +11.6% $297.53M 1,317 $1.8K 14
Mar 29-31 12 $2.38M +0.8% $301.31M 1,120 $2.1K 15
Apr 5-7 12 $1.74M -27.0% $304.12M 977 $1.8K 16
Apr 12-14 15 $1.22M -29.9% $305.82M 868 $1.4K 17
Apr 19-21 17 $772K -36.7% $307.00M 706 $1.1K 18
Apr 26-28 17 $798K +3.4% $308.08M 529 $1.5K 19
May 3-5 22 $452K -43.4% $308.79M 408 $1.1K 20
May 10-12 19 $502K +11.2% $309.47M 440 $1.1K 21
May 17-19 18 $412K -18.1% $310.08M 418 $984 22
May 24-26 15 $359K -12.9% $310.63M 335 $1.1K 23
May 31-Jun 2 21 $225K -37.3% $311.05M 259 $867 24
Jun 7-9 23 $223K -0.7% $311.41M 239 $933 25
Jun 14-16 25 $179K -19.8% $311.71M 221 $809 26
Jun 21-23 28 $157K -12.4% $312.01M 214 $732 27
Jun 28-30 29 $149K -4.8% $312.27M 185 $806 28
Jul 5-7 34 $150K +0.8% $312.55M 167 $900 29
Jul 12-14 33 $115K -23.8% $312.76M 160 $715 30
Jul 19-21 34 $106K -7.3% $312.97M 140 $758 31
Jul 26-28 40 $81K -23.6% $313.11M 102 $795 32
Aug 2-4 43 $69K -14.9% $313.24M 107 $645 33

Performance Charts

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

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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

Similar Movies

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 · Jackson $340M The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 · Jackson $377M The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012 · Jackson $303M The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2013 · Jackson $258M The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2014 · Jackson $255.1M

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