The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
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Peter Jackson: 'I didn’t know what the hell I was doing' when I made The Hobbit
Oscar-winning director admits he was ‘winging it’ and ‘was making it up as I went along’ for much of the fantasy trilogy’s chaotic shoot
Hobbit extended editions hit cinemas: bigger, longer, better?
Peter Jackson’s movies are to return to US multiplexes with extra footage, despite complaints that the original cuts already contained enough padding
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Lee Pace interview: 'Halt and Catch Fire is about people, not computers'
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DVDs and downloads: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Big Eyes and more
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Chinese box office beats US monthly total for first time
Record-breaking number in China makes it the biggest market for movies in February
Box office analysis: global
Global box office: The Imitation Game beats The Theory of Everything to the smart moneyIn this week’s instalment of our series tracking cinema’s worldwide winners …
• Sharper marketing gives Weinsteins’ Imitation Game the edge
• International audiences abandon Johnny Depp on Mortdecai
• American Sniper continues to rack up records
Box office analysis: US
American Sniper to be highest-earning war movie ever, but Mortdecai dead in the waterSuccess for Sniper and Paddington at the US box office, while the Hobbit breaks records in China and Johnny Depp suffers his worst result in more than a decade
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Cutting The Hobbit down to size: no dwarf-elf flirting, no albino orcsBox office analysis: global
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American Sniper dispatches sceptics at UK box office
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Box office analysis: globalGlobal box office: The Imitation Game beats The Theory of Everything to the smart moneyIn this week’s instalment of our series tracking cinema’s worldwide winners …
