Paddington reached the milestone of Blu - ray and DVD sales in just five months, and follows on from the film becoming StudioCanal's highest -
grossing cinema release of all time.
Not exact matches
Calvary was a box - office phenomenon when
released in Irish
cinemas earlier this year, with a
gross of almost $ 1.6 million.
The movie's box office performance was somewhat mediocre as well, considering the production and marketing costs, which the $ 85 million domestic
gross failed to recoup, while still placing the film above all but three movies
released in the easygoing two months comprising
cinema's «fall» season.
After 17 days on
release, the Winston Churchill drama has
grossed # 15.2 m in UK
cinemas.
That was enough to make this psychological thriller the division's second highest -
grossing release of 2006, but its nearly $ 8 million intake was still a tiny blip on the summer box office radar and the unquestionably weak link on Williams» potent annual earnings report (which included modest political comedy Man of the Year and
cinema's currently reigning king Night at the Museum as well).
It's now known as «The Citizen Kane of Bad Movies», and Wiseau himself as «the Orson Welles of crap», growing in popularity with every one of its weekly
cinema screenings, but upon its initial
release in 2003, it
grossed only $ 1,900 in its first week before being unceremoniously pulled from
cinemas — a fraction of its $ 6 million budget.