Where to watch The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Trivia & production notes

• Peter Jackson expanded The Hobbit from a planned two-part film into a trilogy, announcing the third installment on July 30, 2012.
• The film was originally titled 'There and Back Again' but Jackson changed it to 'The Battle of the Five Armies' in April 2014 because Bilbo had already arrived at Erebor by the start of the third film.
• Howard Shore composed the score, which featured new themes for the character Dain and the location Gundabad, with the latter incorporating a chorus of didgeridoos.
• Billy Boyd, who played Pippin in The Lord of the Rings films, wrote and performed the end-credits song 'The Last Goodbye' for the film.
• The film's score incorporated orchestrations by Conrad Pope and James Sizemore for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and two Gamelan orchestras, with vocals recorded by the London Voices and Tiffin boys' choir in London.
• The film grossed $962.2 million worldwide but fell short of the billion-dollar threshold that some analysts had predicted, partly due to unfavorable currency exchange rates in 2014.
• The film set a December IMAX opening record in North America with $13.4 million, surpassing the previous record held by Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
• The film's international opening weekend totaled $122.2 million across 37 countries, with 71 percent of that coming from 3-D showings.
• Jackson stated the third film would largely reuse footage shot for the first and second films but would also require additional filming.
• The film set an all-time Warner Bros. opening record in Russia with $13.8 million and broke 2014 opening records in Germany, France, and Spain.

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