Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech
Perhaps because most people were more focused on Ricky Gervais‘ jokes and Annette Bening’s hairdo than on who won what, the 2011 Golden Globes didn’t seem to have that much of an impact at the domestic box-office on Monday, Martin Luther King Day.
Looking at studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo, Colin Firth’s The King’s Speech, winner of the Best Actor – Drama Golden Globe, was down nearly 30%. Winner of the Best Actress – Drama Golden Globe, Natalie Portman’s Black Swan was down 26%. The Fighter, which won awards for Best Supporting Actor Christian Bale and Best Supporting Actress Melissa Leo, was down 21%.
For comparison’s sake: The Green Hornet was down 36%, The Dilemma 33%, True Grit 29%, Little Fockers 41%, Country Strong 34%, and TRON: Legacy 39%. Yogi Bear and Tangled were both up around 10%. Apart from the kiddie flicks, the non-Golden Globe titles suffered higher drop-off rates than the Globe nominees/winners. However, the difference wasn’t that dramatic. Well, unless actuals released on Tuesday show a different picture.
Monday box-office figures for David Fincher’s The Social Network, Sunday evening’s Golden Globe winner for Best Picture – Drama, should be out on Tuesday as well.
Correction: This post initially contained a glaring error. True Grit was mentioned as a Golden Globe nominee “in several categories” when in fact Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s Western wasn’t nominated for a single Golden Globe.
Photo: The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Co.)
Rika,
Thank you for writing.
“Serious fact-checking” indeed. The fact that “True Grit” was ignored by the Golden Globes was mentioned on this site as well. (http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/leonardo-dicaprio-cher-christina-aguilera-ben-affleck-clint-eastwood-golden-globe/)
Shortly after this post went live, I was told to correct the *embarrassing* error, which I did — but somehow the post wasn’t updated. Will do so again now and will make sure it sticks.
Thanks again.
Some serious fact checking needed here. True Grit was not nominated in “several” categories–in fact, it received no Golden Globes nominations at all, which was widely commented on at the time the nominations came out.