SPEARE'S TIPS - The Films of 10/8

[Chienfantome]

I think the art crowd don't care, when it's an auteur like Stephen Frears with a good subject and good reviews, if it's based on any kind of comic book.

[Shrykespeare]

BOM Sunday Actuals

Top 5:
5 points - The Social Network, $15.5M ($46M total)
4 points - Life as We Know It, $14.5M
3 points - Secretariat, $12.7M
2 points - Legend of the Guardians, $6.9M ($39.3M total)
1 point - My Soul to Take, $6.8M

Also notable:
Toy Story 3, $412M (#9 all time)
Inception, $289M (#44 all time)
Despicable Me, $246.6M (#62 all time)


PTA:
5 points - Inside Job, $19825
4 points - Nowhere Boy, $13187
3 points - Stone, $12628
2 points - Waiting For Superman, $6125
1 point - The Social Network, $5576

For the October leagues, the bottom two shake out like this:

2 points - The Social Network, $5576
1 point - Tamara Drewe, $4651

[numbersix]

Well Tamara Drewe was a comic that was published in the Guardian. You can't get more arthouse than a Guardian comic. No, I think the problem was that it was marketed like a rom-com which turned off the art-house crowd but didn't have the marketing to make it popular for the masses. It sorta fell in the middle.