Japan pushes Lord Of The Rings to the brink of $500m outside the US

By 2003-02-25T00:00:00

In its first three days on release in Japan, The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers grossed $9.66m (Y1.13bn) from 800,000 admissions. This represents a 25% improvement over the opening of The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring.

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