Early in the year when news of how good “Juno” is first began to make the rounds, people started comparing it to last year’s little movie that could, “Little Miss Sunshine.” It seems those comparisons, though well meaning, were a bit premature.
“Juno” brought in $10.6M this past weekend (good enough for 5th place) while only playing on 1,019 screens. That’s a burning $10,436 per screen average in its fourth week of release. “Juno” has already grossed $31.4M. “Little Miss Sunshine” had only grossed $14.7M at the same point in its theatrical run. Even better for “Juno” is Fox Searchlight’s decision to expand the film into 1,880 screens for the upcoming weekend. With the expansion, the per screen average will certainly cool down, but estimates have the film still pulling in around $13M this weekend putting the film close to the half century mark and sending it well on its way to the coveted $100M mark.
As well received as it was, “Little Miss Sunshine” only grossed $59.8 million during its eight month theatrical run. With nominations already in hand and many more likely (Oscar is buzzing), “Juno” will certainly pass that mark within a week or two.
“Juno” Is One Of The Best Films Of The Year
I must say, I have seen this film and I think it’s certainly one of the best films of the year. It was much better than the enjoyable “Little Miss Sunshine,” and comparisons to “Knocked Up” sicken me as this film achieved so much more than that movie even aspired to. The screenplay was terrific and the acting was just superb. The film is unlikely to win Best Picture at the Oscars, but I can’t imagine that it won’t get a screenplay nomination (possibly win) and probably a nomination for the wonderful Ellen Page who plays Juno. A star making performance to be sure.
If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend you run out and catch a screening before all your friends start telling you how good it is. Don’t be that one person who hasn’t seen the movie everyone’s talking about. Don’t. It’s not cool.
Yup, I agree…wrote a review about it over the Christmas break as well.
It’s so much better than Knocked Up…
Probably in my top 5 films of the year.
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I just don’t get why people liked “Knocked Up” so much. Am I the only one that didn’t think it was that funny? I thought it was mostly crude with a few bright spots…not a comic gem. “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and “Superbad” were both funnier.
Definitely didn’t think 40 Year Old was funnier than either of those two, but I did think Superbad was better than both of ‘em.
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In my top 5 of the year (maybe number 2 behind No Country For Old Men).
1. juno
2. superbad
3. 40-year old virgin
4. knocked up