Not exact matches
Walt Disney's Bridge of Spies just barely slots below 2006
winner Crash «s adjusted
box office take of $ 74 million, though any of this year's nominees could see a bump in sales if they take home the Academy's top prize this Sunday night
on ABC (DIS).
It's worth noting that another Fox Searchlight film, Birdman, was among the lowest - grossing Best Picture Oscar
winners of all - time, but it went
on to gross more than $ 100 million worldwide, while 12 Years a Slave (another slavery - themed period drama) grossed $ 187 million in global ticket sales, according to
Box Office Mojo.
The movie was relatively successful at the
box office — especially considering it was made
on a budget of about $ 6.5 million — but it was still the lowest - grossing
winner since 1987's The Last Emperor at the time.
Filmed
on location at the newly renovated Alcatraz, Escape From Alcatraz was another
box -
office winner for the Eastwood / Siegel combo.
However, if the drama of a knowledge contest fails to put this pic in the
winner's circle
on home turf, the triangular romantic elements of the plot might inject enough stimulation to cause some favorable traffic at the
box office.
Alongside The Unjust,
box office hit The Man From Nowhere features in the «Crime and Punishment» section, whilst black comedy Shim's Family and Blue Dragon Film Award
winner The Show Must Go
On join Oki's Movie in «Extraordinary Ordinary Families».
Some of the
winners» names were familiar just kicked - off awards season — Alexander Payne's Hawaiian - set «The Descendants» was named Best Picture, as it also was recently by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association — but perhaps the biggest
winner of the night was Nicolas Winding Refn's neon - lit, criminally overlooked «Drive,» which sadly withered
on the
box office vine earlier this fall and yet sped off with the most trophies Sunday night.
Meanwhile, in the quiet place of the speciality
box office, the big
winner of the weekend was You Were Never Really Here, which hammered the competition (sorry) with a $ 43,304 per - screen average
on three screens, by far the week's highest.
Box office aside, C.M.B.Y.N. seems perfectly
on track to become an Oscar success story, following a path set by 2017's best - picture
winner Moonlight.
LOS ANGELES, CA (May 31, 2012)-- The two billion - dollar
box office phenomenon and
winner of 11 Academy Awards ®, TITANIC, makes its highly anticipated debut
on Blu - ray 2D and 3D
on September 10, 2012 from Paramount Home Media Distribution and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
As the
box office charts reveal, spring can be a harsh season for the discerning filmgoer — with the industry shifting its focus from prestige product before February's Oscar
winners can even shake off their hangovers, we have to dig deeper than usual for fare with more
on its mind than monsters, aliens and petrol.
More
on that Monday via our commentary
on the biggest
winners at the indie
box office this year.
Certainly, the rapid decline in
box office returns of the recently released Body of Lies suggests that film failed to find much of an audience, when
on paper it should have been a
winner.
Disney could put that
on the marquee and probably score a
box office winner, but they chose a more subtle approach for their latest Earth Day release: Born in China.