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Avandel
Half-elven
Apr 21 2014, 11:28pm
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If it wasn't the snow (or sleet - or ice, or black ice) it was just unpleasant. Not that I didn't see DOS a lot in a theater, I did, but not as much as I would have. No matter *cackles madly* I have my BR now. Just haven't been able to free up time to do a back to back AUJ to DOS marathon yet!
"Richard Armitage’s performance has been one of the best things about the new trilogy, making you believe that a hairy dwarf, so often the comedy element of the LOTR films, can be a heroic, tortured, and dangerous badass." - Den of Geek, The Hobbit: There & Back Again, 7 Apr 2014 - 07:07
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Glorfindela
Valinor
Apr 22 2014, 12:05am
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At least you can be reminded of Thorin every time you hit a pothole – and that is certainly no bad thing.
Yep, our roads are still trashed, and where I am doesn't even begin to compare to other areas.  Potholes that look like that mining pit Thorin jumped into in DOS - worse at night when you are driving along and *BLAM* |
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patrickk
Rohan
Apr 22 2014, 3:07am
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The value of the $US explains a lot: for example in Australia...
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...also had a ~10% depreciation which would account for most of the drop there. A bit of a tedious task but checking relative exchange rates across the year may also be instructive. Generally the US$ was srengthening over that year, but of course not against all currencies. Looking at the Euro over the year the depreciation agasinst the $US was 5%, so over all Europe was up when adjusted for rate fluctuations. The British Pound went down $0.15 or around 10% which explains the entire drop there. So overall outside of the US DOS was well up on AUJ. Not the final is not in from China so $960 is probably the final.
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patrickk
Rohan
Apr 22 2014, 3:11am
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...of 20% fall occurred only in he US. When an adjusted to US dollar appreciation over the year we are comparing, the figures are up everywhere and in the UK was much the same. The UK pound went down around 15% against the dollar. There is a veyr lomg bow being drawn here about a plan 'backfiring'. Seems a good result all-in-all!!!
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Kim
Valinor
Apr 22 2014, 3:48am
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time to move to the West Coast! It hardly ever snows here, or gets too much below freezing. 
"Jagatud rõõm on topelt rõõm - a shared joy is a double joy". ~Estonian saying
“As such, you will address His Majesty as His Majesty, the Lord of Silver Fountains, the King of Carven Stone, the King Beneath the Mountain, the Lion of Erebor, the High King of the Dwarves, the True Treasure of Erebor, the Face that Launched 10,000 Sighs, or Thorin the Majestic..."
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Noria
Gondor
Apr 22 2014, 1:46pm
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As long as movies make money. the studios don't care if they are prequels, sequels or reboots.
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AUJ and DoS have been very successful so, if anything, the studios should be encouraged to make more prequels.
I agree with Otaku-sempai that it's normal for a sequel like DoS to make a little less money, TTT and a few others being exceptions to that trend.
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Hamfast Gamgee
Tol Eressea
Apr 22 2014, 10:58pm
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This thread does seem to have produced a lively discussion about how things might have been different had the Hobbit been made first!
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