The final film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy has set a US box office record for a film released on a Wednesday. The Return of the King sold £19.2m in tickets in the US and £13.2m in the rest of the world. Distributor New Line hopes the Return of the King will go on to break the $1 billion (£570m) global box office barrier.For more on the story, please click here.

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