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...awards from the Golden Globe crowd and, on Jan. 23, the Screen Actors Guild; the former long shot is now the favorite to cop an Oscar (over previous front runner Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia). There's no question that the movie's out-of-nowhere success - a $234 million domestic gross on a modest $29 budget - has propelled Bullock toward the front of the Oscar fray, with little enthusiasm from the critics...
...converse is that films starring other actors nominated for Golden Globe or Screen Actors Guild awards, and which received indulgent praise from critics, have stirred hardly a murmur at the wickets. Colin Firth's A Single Man has earned just $4.5 million in seven weeks of release; Emily Blunt's The Young Victoria, $6.8 million in six weeks; Carey Mulligan's An Education, $8.3 million in 16; Woody Harrelson's The Messenger, just $744,200 after 11 weeks in limited release; and Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer's The Last Station, $230,700, second week, limited. All that free publicity...
...tough-living country singer, which was originally made as a TV movie, is gaining momentum at just the right time. Fading fast is another, much more expensive musical. Nine, which was eligible for five Globes and won none, is the season's biggest box-office disappointment: just $18.1 million on an $80 million budget. At this rate, Rob Marshall's star-clogged downer won't even earn as much as a modest CGI sci-fi feature released early this fall: 9 will outgross Nine. The Weinstein Co. will suffer a plague of red ink, while Cameron is declared king...
...Avatar, $36 million; $552.8 million, sixth week 2. Legion, $18.2 million, first weekend 3. The Book of Eli, $17 million; $62 million, second week 4. The Tooth Fairy, $14.5 million, first weekend 5. The Lovely Bones, $8.8 million; $31.6 million, seventh week 6. Sherlock Holmes, $7.1 million; $191.6 million, fifth week 7. Extraordinary Measures, $7 million, first weekend 8. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, $6.5 million; $204.2 million, fifth week 9. It's Complicated, $6.2 million; $98.7 million, fifth week 10. The Spy Next Door, $4.8 million; $18.7 million, second week...
...company wouldn't have dreamed of printing more than 7,000 copies, says Padmanabhan. When the fourth book in the "Harry Potter" series was released in 2001, Penguin sold 30,000 copies. That was a good haul, but still small in comparison to the U.S., which sold 3.8 million copies, and the U.K., which sold another million. By its last two installments, 270,000 hardback copies of each flew off the shelves. "We know that more books are being published and more books are being sold - there's just no doubt about it," says Namita Gokhale a co-founder...