Editing Waterloo (1970 film) (section)

===Box Office===
It was the fifth most popular "reserve ticket" movie at the British box office in 1971.<ref>Peter Waymark. "Richard Burton top draw in British cinemas". ''[[The Times]]'' [London, England] 30 Dec. 1971: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 July 2012.</ref> Associate producer Tom Carlie said "the film has been well received in Europe especially England. The French are less enthusiastic, but after all they lost at Waterloo."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The San Francisco Examiner|date=24 March 1971|page= 34|title=How Waterloo Ended up in Rassia}}</ref>

However, it failed to recoup its cost.  The meagre box office results of ''Waterloo'' led to the cancellation of [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s [[Stanley Kubrick's unrealized projects#Napoleon|planned film biography of Napoleon]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stanley Kubrick's 'Napoleon': A Lot of Work, Very Little Actual Movie|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/stanley-kubricks-napoleon-a-lot-of-work-very-little-actual-movie/|access-date=2021-06-02|website=Vice.com|date=10 February 2010 |language=en}}</ref>

After its release, the film gained popularity and received numerous positive reviews for its battle depiction.  [[New Zealand]] film director [[Peter Jackson]] said that the film inspired his adaptations of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' and ''[[The Hobbit (film series)|The Hobbit]]''.<ref>"Peter Jackson Inspiration 2". Retrieved 2 February 2013 – via Youtube.</ref>