So how is this movie doing?? (in terms of making money)
Of course the press is playing it up like this movie is a blockbuster, because it has done well in limited release. It is open in 69 strategic theaters nationwide (including 4 in heavily gay Greenwich Village) near me. The movie will make money because it is low budget, and it will, of course, win tons of awards, but it is not the cultural phnomenon that the propagandists would have you believe. The re-release in IMAX of Polar Express is in a similiar number of theatres and doing better.
Hi, escapefromboston:
According to Boxofficemojo.com and RottenTomatoes.com, it cost around $14,000,000 to make. It's made a little more than $7,000,000 so far. All it has to do is better than breaking even (cost vs. gross) to be declared a winner.
Jack.