Frodo holds off Batman at NZ box office

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Despite a challenge from The Dark Knight, Peter Jackson's The Return of the King is still king at the New Zealand box office.

The latest Batman film, which broke box office records for an opening weekend in the United States, made $1.8 million in New Zealand, $800,000 short of the $2.6 million record accomplished by The Return of the King in 2003.

However, The Dark Knight had the biggest opening weekend for a film so far this year, beating Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($1.6 million), I Am Legend and Iron Man (both $1.3 million).