The first two Hobbit films had the two highest opening weekends of the entire six-film series so far, and both grossed more than the first two installments of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. There are going to be a lot of people anxiously hoping for a weak opening domestic weekend, ready to declare just about anything a failure or underperformance because such headlines and grim pronouncements attract attention and generate link clicks. Let's get a few things out of the way right off the bat. Meaning the smart money should be on The Battle of the Five Armies to do in the neighborhood of $1 billion. That movie - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - grossed $950 million around the world. As the last entry in the cinematic Tolkien universe, this film is going to at least match the performance of the previous entry in the series. Jackson's previous fantasy trilogy, based on Tolkien's sequel The Lord of the Rings, took $2.89bn between 20.The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies hits domestic theaters December 17th, although it has already opened in Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland, and New Zealand, and opens in most other foreign countries this weekend. The first two films in the Hobbit trilogy have so far taken just under $2bn at the global box office. The Battle of Five Armies is a reference to the climactic battle at the end of The Hobbit in which dwarves, elves, men, goblins and giant eagles fight it out beneath the Lonely Mountain. Jackson said There and Back Again, which was Tolkien's own subtitle for The Hobbit, might re-emerge for a DVD box set at a future date. And so: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies it is." We reached that point last week, and after viewing the movie, we all agreed there is now one title that feels completely appropriate. We decided to keep an open mind until a cut of the film was ready to look at.
"When we did the premiere trip late last year, I had a quiet conversation with the studio about the idea of revisiting the title. "But with three movies, it suddenly felt misplaced - after all, Bilbo has already arrived 'there' in the Desolation of Smaug.
"There and Back Again felt like the right name for the second of a two films telling of the quest to reclaim Erebor, when Bilbo's arrival there, and departure, were both contained within the second film," wrote Jackson.
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