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Sony’s immensely controversial comedy about the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, The Interview, hasn’t just sparked a crisis as the studio tries to cope with the airing of a great number of embarrassing little secrets. It hasn’t just enraged the world’s most volatile nuclear nation, and it hasn’t just led to the introduction of a new round of sanctions against the DPRK.

Overall sales were incredible. Several films, both new releases and holdovers, had brilliant individual runs.

With its domestic launch netting $56. 2 million this weekend The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies is finding itself to be a worthy conclusion to Kiwi director Peter Jackson’s 14-year odyssey in Middle-Earth.

A total of 53 motion pictures were submitted and approved for Golden Globe consideration in the Foreign Language category in 2014. In order to qualify for foreign language consideration, a film must have at least 51% of its dialogue in a language other than English, it must be released in its country or countries (in case of co-production) of origin between Nov.

Los Angeles. For Peter Jackson and for Bilbo, Gandalf, Thorin, Legolas and the other residents of Middle Earth this was a weekend to celebrate.