Here’s a little, but, huge box office stat: Focus Features’ Downton Abbey has finally outstripped the $83M domestic gross of three-time Oscar winner Brokeback Mountain to become the lab…
an IP which Focus and parent Universal were very smart about when it came to not leaving money on the table. It’s not the first time Universal has rolled the dice on a small pic for the big screen:amassed $321.7M at the global box office and a best picture Oscar in addition to Jordan Peele’swhich won him an original screenplay Oscar and yielded a $255.4M global take.
7M debut of 2015’s The AmericanBlacKkKlansman, Darkest Hour under Focus distrib boss Lisa Bunnell. She fielded numerous phone calls from exhibs demandingalso proved the vitality of the mid-September box office, which can often be drowsy.Another huge takeaway and truism fromfor the industry: Don’t ignore the senior crowd, because when you can serve the right film to them, they’ll come out.
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