by Marshall Flores Part of an ongoing series at Awards Daily. More “The Case For” - you can pitch yours by writing us. When it is all said and done, 2012 will go down as one of those film years where there is simply too much greatness, too many achievements and accomplishments, for AMPAS to...
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Moonrise Kingdom won five kudos, including best picture, ensemble and original screenplay, while Prometheus took supporting actor and a slew of tech honors, in the AD Forum awards for the first half of 2012. Best director went to Nuri Bilge Ceylan for the stunning Turkish mystery Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, which also won cinematography. However, the Dardenne brothers’...
Memorial Day weekend Moonrise Kingdom shattered records in limited release, earning an impressive $130,752 per screen in four theatres for an overall four-day gross of $669K. Expanding to 16 venues this week, with an average $53,043 per screen, Moonrise has now accumulated $1.46M, putting it on track to become Wes Anderson’s highest-grossing film to date. Forbes...
With 21 reviews counted, Moonrise Kingdom has shot to the top of the Metacritic charts, with the highest score of any narrative film in English so far this year. Unless Moonrise gets hammered* with a few brutal reviews to shave points off that average, Wes Anderson’s golden valentine to childhood romance is the new #1 critic’s darling of 2012. [Now stands...
