![]() It’s hard for something to feel like an event when it always seems to be hanging around. Seeing characters too regularly deprives it of its uniqueness what’s gained in the front-of-mind frequency department is lost in the magic rarity department. But when it comes to something as beloved - and as long-in-development - as “The Hobbit,” there’s a case to be made that less is more. Look at how “Twilight” and “Harry Potter” mined that later in its life cycle. VIDEO: Ian McKellen talks ‘scruffy’ Gandalf in ‘The Hobbit’įranchises like not only volume but consistency, a new movie that comes out the same time every year. The receipts make “The Hobbit” the ninth-best opening of the year-fine for, say, a midbudget comedy but a little more wobbly for an effects-driven holiday sequel from one of the most popular directors on the planet, adapting one of the most popular books on the planet. That’s good enough, if not necessarily good. The second of those movies, “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” performed decently this past weekend. That enabled more revenue and a longer life for the franchise, which will now span three holiday seasons through 2014. ![]() There’s been a long-running lawsuit.Īnd then, of course, that when it was finally almost ready last year, the production grew so expensive - er, epic - that director Peter Jackson and studio New Line saw fit to take what they had and slice it into three movies. There was the fact that star director Guillermo del Toro walked off after a year of work. Almost as intriguing as the goings-on in Middle Earth has been the drama surrounding the “Hobbit” franchise itself.
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