Now that TDK is out of the running, our new box office champ in the Best Pic race is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which has a $106 million as the nominees are announced.
Slumdog, according to Nikki Finke, should be next, with $54 million after going wider this weekend. Frost/Nixon expanded but it’s going to need more time and buzz to start making good money. The Reader should start making money now, with all of the publicity around the Oscar noms and Milk is still alive with $20 mil to date. So it would go, money-wise: Benjamin Button, Slumdog, Milk, Frost/Nixon, The Reader. We’ll see how it shapes up as we tumble towards the ceremony.
11 Responses for "Benjamin Button Now a 100 Million $ Baby"
As the nomination was annonced there money combined was 158 million, dark knight made that in 4 days. Also its the lowest ever made in the past 20 or ever 30 years for the oscar. Also last yearsthe nominee money as the nomination was annonced is about 250 and the was pretty low. And guess what they ended up getting the lowest rating ever. This year is going to be the lowest rating, but the question is how low will the rating be?
I guess if I had seen this in time, it could have gotten into my 14 FLOPS WORTH NETFLIXING list.
Isn’t there some precursor that the #2 movie box-office wise usually wins Best Picture? That bodes well for Slumdog Millionaire!
Yes indeed, Bobby. It’s usually the #2 earner among the five that wins.
Hey! I found a reason to be glad TDK was snubbed!
SLUMDOG will win out of default.
Boo.
Gentle Benj – And you think FROST/NIXON deserved that nod more than TDK? You have to be shitting me.
Not on me mind you, for deficating on other folks is rude.
Frost/Nixon — decent but not great film. No box office appeal. Not striking a chord out there with anyone. Best Picture nominee. Over critical and commercial successes The Dark Knight, Wall-E, and (arguably) Gran Torino.
Not to mention Man on Wire, Rachel Getting Married, and The Wrestler.
Someone needs to get me a drink.
Apparently there are still plenty of people in this world who will pay good money to waste their time. What a mediocre bore. The Academy noms this year have reached a new low.
No no no, RRA. We were discussing the tendency for the second-highest-grossing nominee to win Best Picture. As the slate stands, that nominee is Slumdog Millionaire.
But if The Dark Knight had gotten in instead of Frost/Nixon or The Reader, the second-highest grosser would be Benjamin Button. And that’s why I’m relieved.
Of course, if the Best Picture nominees had gone the way I predicted, then WALL-E would be the winner according to this trend (!!!).
I read somewhere (Hollywood Reporter, I guess) that even if the movie hits 300 million worldwide, for Paramount it won’t be such a great business.
From a moviegoer humble opinion……”Frost/nixon, Milk are slipping and losing screens and one can almost say they are pretty much dead at the boxoffice. “The Reader” is close behind both of these. A best actor OSCAR for one of either of these films will mean hardly nothing at the boxoffice. Granted their cost are minimal so they don’t have to produce huge boxoffice. Meanwhile “Slumdog” will probably join “Buttons” in the century club before it ends its run OSCAR or no OSCAR. “Slumdog” is an amazing film. I read an article in the LATimes saying Indian leaders are not happy because the film dwells in the slums and ghettos of India. I suppose if the film showed only the Beautiful sites of India they be complaining no one is paying attention to the blight of the poor in the ghettos of India. CAN ONE EVER WIN?
So, what if Curious Case of Benjamin Button made $100 million dollars. Slumdog Millionaire has it in the bag. Benjamin Button is a great movie though.
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