Adding up the weekend box-office estimates for the top Best Picture contenders, we find True Grit vaulting into 3rd place with a long trail ahead yet to ride. (Run, Little Blackie, run!) Wasn’t expecting too many surprises when I drew up a chart for the most successful BP hopefuls, but found a few anyway. Nice to see Shutter Island is Scorsese’s biggest worldwide box-office earner ever (and expect The Invention of Hugo Cabret to surpass that a year from now.) Check the numbers after the cut, and make your own happy discoveries.
Here’s an external link to the chart, if you’re not seeing it here.