Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Box: It's Felicity Meets Unsolved Mysteries

1. Identity Thief - $14m / $93.5m / $120m
2. A Good Day to Die Hard - $13m / $55m / $82m
3. Snitch - $12m / $12m / $35m
4. Safe Haven - $11.5m / $49m / $70m
5. Escape From Planet Earth - $11.5m / $36m / $60m
6. Dark Skies - $11m / $11m / $28m
7. Silver Linings Playbook - $6m / $107m / $122m
8. Warm Bodies - $4.5m / $58m / $69m
9. Side Effects - $4m / $26m / $35m
10. Beautiful Creatures - $3.5m / $16.5m / $24m

Zero Dark Thirty - $2.5m / $91.5m / $100m
Argo - $2m / $130m / $140m
Lincoln - $1.5m / $178.5m / $184m
Life of Pi - $1.5m / $113.5m / $120m
Django Unchained - $1.2m / $159m / $163m
Les Miserables - $.9m / $147m / $150m
Amour - $.9m / $5m / $10m
Beasts of the Southern Wild - $.2m / $12.5m / $13m

I'll just focus on the Oscar movies.  More than likely, Sony will fudge Zero Dark Thirty's numbers enough to get it past the century mark.  Warner Bros. should have considered bumping Argo's DVD/Blu date back a month so they could make even more money theatrically, as the film keeps thumping along.  It's now available at home, so its Oscar win bump won't be too sizable.  Silver Linings remains the only contender in the top 10, and crossed $100m on Monday.  If it wins Best Picture, it could go to $140m.  Life of Pi has a chance at taking home the most wins, and will be available on DVD/Blu in a few weeks.  Just enough to give it a few extra miles in theaters.  Les Miserables and Django won't see more than a few million more, and I doubt Lincoln will unless it pulls off a Picture upset.  Amour looks like it will be able to surpass Winter's Bone and not be the lowest grossing Best Picture nominee ever.  If it wins a few top categories as opposed to just Foreign Film, it'll make more than $10m.  Beasts is currently in just a couple hundred theaters and is also available at home.  Given its not expected to win anything, it won't see any bump. 

6 (eventually 7) of this year's 9 nominees have made more than $100m.  I hope this is a lesson to Hollywood that adult audiences are back in full force.  Time to start catering to them more than tweens. 

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