Posted on 12/10/2009 5:24:56 PM PST by Libloather
Hollywood poised for record-breaking year at the box office; 2009 set to best 2007's record intake
By Amy Eisinger
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, December 10th 2009, 3:26 PM
The Hollywood box office is having its best year in history, reports Hollywood.com Box Office. This week the box office grand total for 2009 is expected to hit $9.682 billion -- surpassing previous record holder 2007, when the tally was $9.68 billion.
With potential top-grossing holiday films still to come, Hollywood is bracing for their first $10 billion year ever. Movies that are still on the way this year include James Cameron's "Avatar," the star-studded "Nine," Disney's new "Princess and the Frog," currently only playing in New York and Los Angeles, and the action-packed "Sherlock Holmes."
Though the box office did see its typical slide after the Thanksgiving holidays, "The Blind Side" still managed to rake in $20.4 million over the weekend of December 4.
Other top grossing films of the year so far include, in descending order, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" in the top spot, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," "Up," and "The Hangover," with late November release "New Moon" on their heels in sixth place.
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I think my last was Crocodile Dundee. Not sure yhe year.
Saw the new Clooney film, “Up in the Air” last week (only playing in NY and LA until Christmas). Good, but not worth $11.50.
After falling asleep in Carrey’s “Grinch” I’ve decided to boycott anything by the Canuck.
Studios feel pinch of slowing DVD sales, rise in rentals
If you're buying fewer DVDs and renting more of them -- especially from automated Redbox kiosks -- you've got the Hollywood studios scared.
The studios know that DVD sales have been in decline since at least 2005. Now, however, a depressed economy, convenient rental options and emerging technology have combined to worsen the situation.
Personally, I can't wait to see any of them go bankrupt. Produce total, leftist krapTM and they deserve to have the free market public stay away in droves.
So YOU'RE the reason my 401k is tanking. Thanks a TON!
Thanks for the recommendation!
Well, a minor warning is that The Fantastic Mr. Fox steals and kills chickens. As he says, he’s a fox. He can’t help it. But the factory farmers are so mean and nasty, who would mind? Anyway, there were a lot of little kids there, including my two and four year old grandsons, and no one seemed to be freaked out.
It’s actually about the animal community getting together when they are cornered, about family relationships, about how their son learns to get along with his much brighter cousin who comes to stay with them, and so on. The husband and wife have issues (she doesn’t want him risking his life stealing chickens), but they work all these problems out in the end.
Maybe Fantastic Mr. Fox—see #48. Roald Dahl is not for every taste, but our family loved it.
Concur. I was able to see it in IMAX 3-D, but I hear that some of the effects were effective in regular projection too.
“Fantastic Mr. Fox” was actually an American film.
Do you mean the old film with Alastair Sim?
Yes, thanks for the correction. It was called "Scrooge" in England and re titled "A Christmas Carol". 1951 issued. I note old BBC favourite George Cole who played young Scrooge apparently still alive at 84 years of age.
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