Box Office
Compare week-for-week · Peter Jackson's Middle-earth film series
Each film’s theatrical run, lined up by week since release — weekly gross and theater count, reported or adjusted for inflation.
Each weekly gross as originally reported.
| Week | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey2012 · no weekly data | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug2013 · no weekly data | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies2014 · no weekly data | ||||||
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| Gross | Theaters | Gross | Theaters | Gross | Theaters | Gross | Theaters | Gross | Theaters | Gross | Theaters | |
| 1 | $27.9M | 3,359 | — | — | $51.5M | 3,703 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | $89.2M | 3,359 | $111.1M | 3,622 | $120.2M | 3,703 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | $65.3M | 3,359 | $84.8M | 3,622 | $90.6M | 3,703 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
“Week since release” aligns each film by how many weeks it had been in theaters, so entries from different eras compare directly. “Adjusted for inflation” restates each weekly gross in today’s dollars (US CPI-U, relative to that film’s release year). Weekly figures are domestic, from Box Office Mojo; coverage varies by film and era.