[Notes on a Season] • Gregory Ellwood takes note of the season's
box office champs so far: «Inglourious Basterds» and «Up.»
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 10th April to Sunday 12th April 2015... Despite four new enteries cracking the top ten, none could put up any kind of challenge to
reigning box office champ Fast & Furious 7, with the latest instalment in the action franchise adding another # 5.4 -LSB-...]
Moving
from box office champ to box office chump in the span of a year, Sony (which releases films under the labels Columbia, TriStar, and Screen Gems) saw its global receipts decline by over a billion dollars from 2012 to 2013.
12 Strong, an Afghanistan war drama starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon, opens next week and looks like it has the best shot of unseating our
current box office champ.
Call us cliché, but we don't think there's any better time of year than summer to catch up on all
the box office champs you missed the other nine months.
Now that Sully is out of the race,
the box office champ is also the frontrunner to win top Oscars and that's La La Land.
«The Sound of Music,» the 1965
box office champ and best - picture Oscar - winner starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer and a lot of cute kids as the Von Trapps (a real - life Austrian family who fled the Nazis), was adapted from Richard Rodgers» and Oscar Hammerstein's Broadway musical; Robert Wise («West Side Story») directed.
The weekend's
box office champ was the Nicolas Cage starrer «Knowing,» from director Alex Proyas.
Star Wars was
the box office champ for the last three weeks, but was decisively beaten out by the Jumanji reboot, which was proven to have substantial lasting power.
«Creed» has been
a box office champ so far, grossing $ 103 million, with awards pundits seeing Oscar potential following Sylvester Stallone's win Sunday night at the Golden Globes for best supporting actor.