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| Friday | Screens | % Chg | Cume | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Gross | Thtr | % Chgn | Cume |
| Venom | 33 | 4250 | NEW | 33 |
| A Star is Born | 15.7 | 3686 | NEW | 15.7 |
| Smallfoot | 3.5 | 4131 | -46% | 31.3 |
| Night School | 3.5 | 3019 | -63% | 37.9 |
| The House Wirh a Clock in its Walls | 1.8 | 3463 | -43% | 49.5 |
| A Simple Favor | 1 | 2408 | -50% | 46.6 |
| The Nun | 0.75 | 2264 | -52% | 111.5 |
| Hell Fest | 0.6 | 2297 | -70% | 7.4 |
| Crazy Rich Asians | 0.6 | 1466 | -51% | 167.6 |
| The Predator | 0.25 | 1643 | -77% | 49.3 |
| Also Debuting | ||||
| The Hate U Give | 0.17 | 36 | ||
| Shine | 85,600 | 609 | ||
| Exes Baggage | 75,900 | 62 | ||
| NOTA | 71,300 | 138 | ||
| 96 | 61,600 | 62 | ||
| Andhadhun | 55,000 | 54 | ||
| Afsar | 45,400 | 33 | ||
| Project Gutenberg | 36,000 | 17 | ||
| Love Yatri | 22,300 | 41 | ||
| Hello, Mrs. Money | 22,200 | 37 | ||
| Studio 54 | 5,300 | 1 | ||
| Loving Pablo | 4,200 | 15 |
| 3-Day Estimates | Weekend | % Chg | Cume |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Good Dead | 24.4 (11,230) | NEW | 24.4 |
| Dolphin Tale 2 | 16.6 (4,540) | NEW | 16.6 |
| Guardians of the Galaxy | 7.9 (2,550) | -23% | 305.8 |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 4.8 (1,630) | -26% | 181.1 |
| The Drop | 4.4 (5,480) | NEW | 4.4 |
| Let's Be Cops | 4.3 (1,570) | -22% | 73 |
| If I Stay | 4.0 (1,320) | -28% | 44.9 |
| The November Man | 2.8 (1,030) | -36% | 22.5 |
| The Giver | 2.5 (1,120) | -26% | 41.2 |
| The Hundred-Foot Journey | 2.5 (1,270) | -21% | 49.4 |
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I ask this with respect, and I think some may have missed it because the comments don’t show here for his Black Swan Oscar posting…
But has our esteemed blogmaster thrown down THE whopper of the Oscar season by opining that THE FIGHTER isn’t part of the Best Picture equation?
All due respect, but THAT’S gotta be a Rita Coolidge-style ALL TIME HIGH that could replace the Phantom o’ the Opera legend.
I think it’s far more likely that The Fighter could split the difference between The Social Network and The King’s Speech: Somewhere between youthful and fuddy-duddy and thus acceptable to both parties, not to mention terrific on top of all of that.
What does ‘split the difference’ mean? I’ve never understood how that actually works.
Uh… did I say somewhere that The Fighter won’t be nominated or that its actors won’t be nominated?
Pat: As a consensus pick for younger and older voters, The Fighter could split the difference between the perhaps too-strong youthfulness of Social Network and the perhaps too-stuffy fuddy-duddy qualities of King’s Speech.
David: Not to put words in Lex’s mouth, but I think he means your presumed exclusion of “The Fighter” as a strong contender for the top prize, as interpreted from this:
http://moviecitynews.com/2010/12/12-weeks-to-oscar-the-battle-of-black-swan/
as well as the somewhat dismissive comment you left about the movie on said post.
Yeah, it was more the quickie comment he made than the exclusion above. Apologies if I read something into it… It just seemed like a flippant brush-off.
I noted it mostly because I am GOING HARD with my not-backing-down, AIRTIGHT prediction that The Fighter WILL ABSOLUTELY WIN Best Picture of 2010.
Such is my stance, IO style.
god
i’m sorry for this
but all we talked about tonight was “the fighter vs. black swan” argument
but it isn’t even relevant
what is
media ugh
catfish is the new crash
and my good friend knows that guy
that guy that’s part of that “documentary”
I don’t care
What happened
I had a friend nearly screaming over huevos rancheros the other day that music, film, theater, and art were all media now
i agree
but…
it’s not relevant
never was or anything
but what the hell is
there were a lot of good films this year. but young don’t matter anymore. because, you know, they don’t. matter. they don’t matter.
the social network
wasn’t even a movie for youth
or was it
what blogger is gonna shove JEs contemporaneous relevance down my throat
there are a handful of releases that got through to the youth
(the hipsters)
(whatever)
All in all…
Gaspar Noe.
That’s what we’ve been excited about.
Don’t listen to that guy that thinks he’s relevant because he is all into what movie geeks are into.
Intelligent, blase, bastard, ironic, hipster bitch youths like myself are not concerned with “scott pilgrim” or any of that pap (though, solid movie)…
blue valentine…
we’re done.
fuck corporate theaters
lick the cunt of america
make your own movie
screen it in a subway
take it downtown
make it grow a moustache
kill it for saying circus of books is pornography
dustys is a ripoff
franklin village is a hoax
tom cruise is miley cyrus
my friend did coke with one of them
but he said that the person doing coke called themselves hanna montana
so it must have been cruise.
you guys are great.
i hate you.
hecklers.
pedants.
hangers on.
you probably won’t read this,
i don’t read your shit comments.
i do.
yes she is.
PS— Thor is for idiots.
Movies are now for idiots
It’s media
you foolish, intelligent people.
you’re good.
yes she is.
she is.
What. The. Hell?
‘How Do You Know’ Cost $120 Million, $40 Million for Actors Alone …
quite a lot – any of the actors doing a dp/30 for this film ?
If you look at the latest Gurus O’ Gold, Poland is one of only two participants who didn’t list The Fighter as a predicted Best Picture nominee. So I suppose that could be taken as him saying it won’t be nominated.
http://moviecitynews.com/2010/12/gurus-o-giobes-gold-dec-10-2010/
What the hell is happening to this blog?
Lex, I demand an explanation.
Why are so many boxing movies about white dudes?…
Will Smith in Ali in 2001
every few years there is a boxing movie or a horse racing movies filled with super old guys who need to be heros and
they usually get some movie awards
established 1962 rules. Keep strong, my man, keep strong.
Hope the moustache suits you.
Also, THE FIGHTER is really mediocre: sitcom sisters, odd real-life-to-film pacing issues, generic-as-hell script, etc.
The first half hour was strong, Russell gave some flair to it, performances were strong, even Wahlberg’s, loved the HBO camera following Bale and Wahlberg down the street, but the movie never really transcended the “let’s patronize these white trash hics” attitude it adopted early on.
However, as evidenced by Hillary Swank’s family in Million Dollar Baby, that issue is far from a dealbreaker for the Academy.
Wow, Melquiades, that even surprised me!
What I think is that Fighter is in the bottom third of the likely Best Picture nominees and will probably get in… but could miss the boat. Nice opening this weekend, good reviews, probably in.
I don’t think it has a legitimate shot at winning, not because of any strategic issue, but because it isn’t that movie. It’s not Rocky. It’s not On The Waterfront. It splits the difference and while the cast acts its heart out, it isn’t quite fish or fowl.
To quote Tony Scott, in a review that will be quoted by Paramount: “With solid bodywork, clever feints and tremendous heart, it scores at least a TKO, by which I mean both that it falls just short of overpowering greatness — I can’t quite exclaim, “It’s a knockout!” — and that the most impressive thing about it is technique.”
Pretty much on the nose. So where does that movie go to win Best Picture? Can’t get past King’s Speech on “feel good.” Can’t get past “True Grit” on form. Can’t get past “Black Swan” on passion.
It’s a good movie… about a step behind The Town.
I have been loathe to discuss this before seeing the film again and will be doing so this weekend. So I could end up eating some of my words. And I would love to, really. But as others have pointed out – and I am a Wahlberg believer – it’s hard to scream about a film when the title character and his specific issues are not as memorable as any of the major supporting cast. Maybe they should have called it The Fighter, The Brother, His Girl & His Mother.
Now that the sale of Miramax has been completed and the new owners are looking for ways to exploit the library catalog, I propose as their first order of business that they give the ultimate middle finger to Harvey Scissorhands and immediately invite every filmmaker who suffered from his meddlesome ways back into the editing room to work on Director’s Cuts of Miramax-mangled movies. Would love to see the original MIMIC, GANGS OF NEW YORK, a definitive BAD SANTA, THIEF AND THE COBBLER, SHAOLIN SOCCER, etc. etc. etc. Wouldn’t that be awesome?
shillfor –
MIMIC – No
GANGS OF NEW YORK – Yes
BAD SANTA – There is a “Director’s Cut” DVD
SHAOLIN SOCCER – The US version cuts a few minutes from the opening, but it seems to me it’s playing at the correct “speed”, and otherwise includes everything in the much longer “original Chinese version” on the US DVD which seems to be time expanded to accommodate subtitles.