The Report – January 17, 2010

BOX OFFICE:

After five weeks, the largest film in the country is — again — Avatar. The film has also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. Though Warner Brothers’ The Book Of Eli gave strong competition on Friday, Avatar held the weekend. Showing in 137 fewer theaters than last week (down to a mere 3,285), James Cameron’s sci-fi epic brought in $41,300,000, an average of $12,572 per theater. The Hughes Brothers “The Book Of Eli” was no slouch, bringing in $31,615,000 out of 3,111 theaters.

Here’s the rest of the weekend’s box office:

1 Avatar 20th Century Fox

2 The Book Of Eli Warner Bros.

3 The Lovely Bones Paramount/Dreamworks

4 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Fox

5 Sherlock Holmes Warner Bros

6 The Spy Next Door LionsGate

7 It’s Complicated Universal

8 Leap Year Universal

9 The Blind Side Warner Bros

10 Up In The Air Paramount

All eyes turn to the luxurious Beverly Hilton Hotel every year for the Golden Globes. In case you missed it, here are the winners!

2010 Golden Globes winners

TELEVISION NOMINEES:

BEST TELEVISION SERIES, DRAMA

Mad Men

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES, DRAMA

Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES, DRAMA

Michael C. Hall, Dexter

BEST TELEVISION SERIES, COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Glee

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Toni Collette, United States of Tara

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock

BEST MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Grey Gardens

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Chloe Sevigny, Big Love

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

John Lithgow, Dexter

FILM NOMINEES:

BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
Avatar

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA

Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

BEST MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL

The Hangover

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Meryl Streep, Julie and Julia

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Up

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

The White Ribbon (Germany)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

Mo’Nique, Precious

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

BEST DIRECTOR

James Cameron, Avatar

BEST SCREENPLAY

Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Michael Giacchino, Up

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“The Weary Kind,” Music and Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)

Congratulations to all winners and nominees!

Movies opening on Friday:

STUDIO:

Extraordinary Measures (PG for mature themes, suggestive material and mild epithets) Screen adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winner Geeta Anand’s novel about a couple (Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell) who start a foundation to find a cure for the rare genetic disorder threatening the lives of two of their children (Meredith Droeger and Diego Velasquez). With Harrison Ford, Alan Ruck, Dee Wallace and Courtney B. Vance.

Legion (R for profanity and graphic violence) Apocalyptic horror flick about the intrepid band of truck-stop diners rallying around a fallen Archangel (Paul Bettany) to protect a pregnant waitress (Adrianne Malicki) carrying the Christ child from a vengeful God who’s intent on eradicating the human race he’s lost faith in. Cast includes Dennis Quaid, Tyrese, Charles S. Dutton and Lucas Black.

Don’t miss our interview with Tyrese today!

The Tooth Fairy (PG for mild epithets, crude humor and sports action) The Rock stars in the title role of this family comedy about a hockey player famous for knocking out opponents’ teeth who gets a big lesson about what’s really important in life after being sentenced to a week of hard labor as the Tooth Fairy.
Ensemble includes Abigail Breslin, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews and Billy Crystal.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS

Creation (PG-13 for mature themes) Historical drama recounting the toll exacted on the marriage of Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany) and his devoutly religious wife, (Jennifer Connelly) by both his blasphemous Theory of Evolution and the death of their eldest daughter (Martha West). Cast includes Toby Jones, Jeremy Northam and Benedict Cumberbatch.

The Girl on the Train (Unrated) Cross-cultural drama, about a battered Jewish woman (Emilie Dequenne) who creates a media circus by falsely claiming to be the victim of an anti-Semitic attack by Arab teenagers. With Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc and Nicolas Duvauchelle. (In French with subtitles)

The Paranoids (Unrated) Argentinean romantic comedy, set in Buenos Aires, revolving around the love triangle which evolves when a depressed clown (Daniel Hendler) lets his ailing best friend’s (Walter Jakob) broke girlfriend (Jazmin Stuart) move-in with him after an argument. (In Spanish with subtitles)

A Room and a Half (Unrated) Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy portrays Russian dissident Joseph Brodsky in this melancholy bio-pic recounting the life and times of the troubled Nobel Laureate who lived in exile in America for the rest of his life after being expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 for his incendiary poetry.

To Save a Life (PG-13 for sexuality, mature themes, underage drinking, illegal drug use and disturbing images) Coming-of-age drama about a high school basketball star (Randy Wayne) who decides to put his dreams on hold in the wake of his best friend’s (Robert Bailey, Jr.) suicide.