Trade Roughage 12/10/07

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

The Golden Compass made $26.1 million over the weekend, just over half the $50 million it would have needed to clear in its first three days to justify its $180 million budget. That makes it the fourth consecutive box office disappointment in a row for New Line; it’s also Nicole Kidman’s third flop in the last six months. Meanwhile, teen sex com in indie clothes Juno made $60k a screen on seven screens, for a $531, 399 five day weekend–more than double the per screen average of presumptive Oscar front runner Atonement, which was already doing well with $817,000 on 32 screens.
From the “Well, I Certainly Can’t Complain About THAT” Department: over the weekend, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the New York Film Critics Online both declared There Will Be Blood the best English-language film of the year.
Strike talks fell apart on Friday night, and they’re not expected to resume any time soon. And, with the AMPTP soon shifting focus to hammer out a deal with the DGA, it “now seems a certainty” that the strike will continue well into next year.
The International Documentary Association named A Walk to Beautiful as their top film of the year on Friday. Though that film beat Michael Moore’s Sicko for the top prize, the loudest man in documentary film sent his sisters, armed with a manifesto about his mission to outgross Fred Claus, to pick up a Career Achievement Award on his behalf.

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