"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" pass $1 billion in global box office

While it's domestic take of just over $301 million is the smallest of any of Peter Jackson's Tolkien adaptations the global marketplace has come through in a big way for "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey". The first film in the new trilogy topped the much coveted $1 billion mark this past weekend following its recent opening in communist China to become just the 15th movie in history to reach that lofty plateau.