Oscar Box Office Effect: CRAZY HEART, THE BLIND SIDE, THE HURT LOCKER Benefit
At the North American box office, Crazy Heart (above), The Blind Side, and The Hurt Locker were the only three movies that benefited from their Oscar victories last Sunday.
Starring Jeff Bridges as a down-and-out country singer who strikes up a relationship with a younger woman (Maggie Gyllenhaal), Crazy Heart earned Bridges the Best Actor Oscar, in addition to another statuette for Best Original Song ("The Weary Kind" by T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham).
More than any other film, Crazy Heart has been immensely helped by the awards season buzz. Following Bridges’ win the film lost a mere 5.7 percent from the previous weekend — the smallest decrease among the top twelve films at the North American box office according [...]
by Michelle Hutton | March 14, 2010
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Tags: 2010 Oscar, Academy Awards, Avatar, Box Office, Crazy Heart, Jeff Bridges, Kathryn Bigelow, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Precious, Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker
CRAZY HEART: Oscar Nominations Box-Office Effect
Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart
It’s hard to tell if the Academy Award nominations have done much for most of the nominated films. Several Oscar nominees had a minor box-office increase the day the nominations were announced and smaller ones on the following day or so, but with perhaps four or five exceptions — The Blind Side, A Single Man, An Education, Up in the Air, and most notably Crazy Heart — that has been about it. Avatar has done great business in the last couple of weeks, but it’s the kind of business the blockbuster had been doing prior to the Oscar announcement.
Curiously, the Oscar nominations seem to have had their strongest effect by far on [...]
by Michelle Hutton | February 16, 2010
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Tags: 2010 Oscar, Academy Awards, An Education, Avatar, Box Office, Crazy Heart, Film Awards, Jeff Bridges, The Blind Side, Up in the Air
2010 Oscar Predictions: Best Actress Sandra Bullock
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Other nominees: Helen Mirren, The Last Station; Carey Mulligan, An Education; Gabourey Sidibe, Precious; Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia.
Sandra Bullock was under no one’s Oscar 2010 radar a mere eight weeks ago. Then John Lee Hancock’s sentimental family drama The Blind Side opened to lukewarm reviews and great box office. From then on, it was all about Bullock. Or almost. The vast majority of critics’ groups ignored her when announcing their 2009 winners and runner-ups, but she and Meryl Streep tied for the Broadcast Film Critics Association’s best actress award, Bullock was chosen the top moneymaking star of 2009, and she took home both the Golden Globe for best actress (drama) and [...]
by Steve Montgomery | February 12, 2010
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Tags: 2010 Oscar, 2010 Oscar Predictions, Academy Awards, Carey Mulligan, Film Awards, Gabourey Sidibe, Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, Oscar Predictions, Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Box Office: AVATAR, New Releases, Oscar Movies
Channing Tatum in Lasse Hallström’s Dear John (top); John Travolta, Melissa Mars, Jonathan Rhys Meyers in From Paris with Love (bottom)
According to estimates provided by Box Office Mojo, Lasse Hallström’s romantic tearjerker Dear John, starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, topped the domestic box-office this weekend, with $32.4 million in ticket sales. Avatar came at a distance second, with $23.6 million. James Cameron’s 3D sci-fier has grossed a total of $630 million after 52 days.
The $52 million John Travolta-Jonathan Rhys Meyers vehicle From Paris with Love earned a paltry $8.1 million ($2,983 per screen) on its opening weekend. Following in fourth place was Mel Gibson’s Edge of Darkness with $7 million, a 59.3 percent drop from [...]
by Michelle Hutton | February 8, 2010
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Tags: Amanda Seyfried, An Education, Avatar, Box Office, Carey Mulligan, Channing Tatum, Dear John, From Paris with Love, Jeff Bridges, John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Lasse Hallström, The Blind Side
Box Office: AVATAR Leads, Oscar Nominations Effect All But Gone
Colin Firth in A Single Man
All but two movies on the top-twelve domestic box-office chart posted losses on Wednesday, according to Box Office Mojo. Obviously, the effects of Tuesday’s minor Oscar bump didn’t linger very long.
Avatar had one of the smallest drops, 1.5 percent, down to $2.647 million for a total of $603.7 million after 48 days. James Cameron’s sci-fier was followed by Mel Gibson’s revenge thriller Edge of Darkness, which lost 19.9 percent from the previous day, with grosses of $1.1 million. At #3, the Josh Duhamel-Kristen Bell romantic comedy When in Rome, earned 706K, a 19 percent drop.
Denzel Washington’s post-apocalyptic drama The Book of Eli came in fourth, with $668K (8.3 percent drop), followed [...]
by Michelle Hutton | February 4, 2010
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Tags: A Single Man, Avatar, Box Office, Colin Firth, Crazy Heart, Edge of Darkness, James Cameron, Jeff Bridges, The Blind Side, When in Rome