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Instead, Shutter Island killed, and the Paramount brass looks like a winning brain trust. According to studio estimates, the movie will have earned $40.2 million in its first three days. That's the biggest debut weekend for any Scorsese picture (The Departed was his previous top opener), and any DiCaprio (yes, including Titanic). Turns out the R-rated whodunit - with Leo playing a U.S. marshal searching for a killer in an insane asylum - benefited from an effective ad spot on the Super Bowl and a week with no other new films in wide release. Scorsese's very limited competition came...
Avatar also held well, finishing third despite losing 104 screens from last week. The James Cameron eco-epic dropped only 32%, and some time this week will cross the $700 million North American mark, fully $100 million over the previous all-time domestic champ, Cameron's Titanic. Its worldwide gross has passed $2.4 billion, nearly $600 million more than Titanic, and looks to keep going until some undetermined date when everyone on the planet will have seen it. (See the top 10 movie performances...
Back on the weekend before Christmas, when Avatar opened to a $77 million gross, another film made its debut with $82,664 on four screens. That was Crazy Heart, an ordinary little movie that was at first scheduled to go direct to DVD. But the appealing performance by Jeff Bridges as a country-music star on the downalator charmed critics and started piling up best actor awards: from the L.A. film critics, the broadcast film critics, the Golden Globes gang and, most important, the Screen Actors Guild. Bridges is now the front runner for a Best Actor Oscar, and audiences...
...Crazy Heart has passed $20 million at the domestic box office, and is the only indie film to get any monetary traction from its awards exposure. Sorry, The Last Station, An Education and A Single Man. As for Nine, the big-budget musical with bigger Oscar hopes, it did cadge a few nominations but has earned less than Crazy Heart, despite costing eight times as much to make. This weekend's take was a sad $19,000. The movie may as well have shuttered...
...Shutter Island, $40.2 million, first weekend 2. Valentine's Day, $17.2 million; $87.4 million, second week 3. Avatar, $16.1 million; $687.8 million, tenth week 4. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, $15.3 million; $58.8 million, second week 5. The Wolfman, $9.8 million; $50.3 million, second week 6. Dear John, $7.3 million; $66 million, third week 7. Tooth Fairy, $4.5 million; $49.9 million, fifth week 8. Crazy Heart, $3 million; $21.6 million, tenth week 9. From Paris With Love, $2.5 million; $21.2 million, third week 10. Edge of Darkness, $2.2 million; $40.3 million, fourth week...