Look… there is a real discussion to be had about how independent-minded movies are being released, how screens are held and lost, and what the future for this kind of product really might be. But hysteria over a few films that didn’t catch in limited releases is short-sighted hooey. This is the same mentality that derided Ratatouille this summer before that film ended up with more than $200 million domestic and over $515 million worldwide… in the top half of all Pixar films and passing cars’ worldwide gross by over $50 million. (Cars was a licensing boon… but that’s a different discussion.)
There are already a dozen Oscar-hopeful corpses littering multiplex lobbies, praying for handouts from the actors come January. Another dozen will be coming up to bat in the next month. Only five can get nominated. Last year, only a dozen films from Sept-Nov that were seriously chasing Oscar ever cracked $10 million. This year will surely beat that number by a fair margin.
The rest...
And the charts...
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