From Dark Horizons:
After New Line Cinema’s anime feature “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” debuted to a disastrously low $4.5 million in its opening weekend in cinemas on December 13th, and then fell a steep 72% to just $1.25 million this past weekend, the title is being made available on digital at home on December 27th.
This was made so the studio could keep the rights. There’s a press release by New Line Cinema out there basically confirming it.
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