The Hobbit outperformed the US debut of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Peter Jackson's previous best opening in December 2003.
In part two of this series, Trudeau dissects the film scores of Finding Nemo and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
It's such an incredible achievement that there's no way I cannot say that the best score this year is Howard Shore's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
The Fellowship of the Ring: being the first part of The Lord of the Rings and The Two Towers: being the second part of The Lord of the Rings were both released in 1954, followed by The Return of the King: being the third part of The Lord of the Rings in 1955.
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In The Lord of the Rings, the king spends most of the novel fighting evil and restoring the ancient kingdom of his forefathers.
Mr Reid said in the letter that the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the authority on such matters, had declined to prescribe a precise shade of blue for the Saltire, a view accepted by Scottish ministers.
You have to go back to 2003 to find a top five nominee: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which won Best Picture that year.
The Return of the King, the last installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, opens next week.
While at EA he also produced Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and 007: From Russia With Love.
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As a visual spectacle, it rivals anything in The Lord of the Rings or King Kong, precisely because you know you're seeing a human being in action.
Oscar-winning sound editor Michael Hopkins, who worked on films including the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the 2005 King Kong remake, has been killed in a rafting accident in New Zealand.
Robin Marsh, UK secretary general of the Federation, spoke of the "innate sense of fairness and decency" that informed Lord King's decisions and his support for persecuted groups and disadvantaged minorities.
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He won Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in 2003 and King Kong in 2006.
Not upon what is actually important, what are the living standards of the average person, but on who gets to Lord it over whom, who gets to claim to be King of the Castle.
At the imperial durbar at which King Edward VII was proclaimed Emperor of India, the Viceroy, Lord Curzon, rode on the grandest elephant of all.
So what explains big-budget winners like Titanic, Gladiator and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King?
Some of the weeks incorporate both history and fiction, for example the reading of "A Man for All Seasons, " Robert Bolt's 1954 play -- later reworked into a famous 1966 film - about the life of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor to England's mercurial King Henry VIII in the 16th century.
Rieder also wrote, "The Word of the Lord is Upon Me, " a book that revealed King's backstage discussions with friends and colleagues.
But Tory former defence secretary Lord King said the Americans had eight times as many helicopters for the number of personnel.
The old dogfighters like Frank Lorenzo (once of Continental and Eastern) and Lord King (of British Airways) have given way to a younger generation of marketeers, more suited to the world of virtual airlines, alliances and empowerment programmes.
Lord King, who proposed the motion, recognised his colleagues' arguments but warned that "plenty of people have got lost in the Cabinet Office".
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