BuzzFeed - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug made less in its opening weekend than the first Hobbit movie, but it is still one of the most successful box office debuts for a movie longer than 160 minutes. Martin Freeman and John Callen in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Mark Pokorny / Warner Bros. Pictures The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug opened this weekend with an estimated $73.7 million, and if there was ever a time when a movie making that much money in one weekend could be seen as a hobbit-sized disappointment, it is, perhaps, today.As the second film in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug grossed about $11 million less than the debut weekend of its predecessor, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. That's not the box office trajectory a studio wants to see when making an epic cinematic trilogy â and the blame could be placed on their running times.Jackson's last series of movies set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, by contrast, went in the
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