BUT BLACK PANTHER WAS A
DISTANT SECOND
Again this year I truly appreciate the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences members telling me that GREEN BOOK was the
Best motion picture of the year, but in the ONLY category that really
counts – MONEY MADE – it appears the International audience made a different decision. When it
comes to picking movies, I always "trust the mob" so here is how the
movie going paying public ranked this year’s movies as of 25 February
2019.
In a departure from the norm, two of this year’s
eight nominees for Best Picture are among the eight top money maker of the past
year with Black Panther coming in a distant second at $1.347 Billion and Bohemian
Rhapsody was #6 bringing in $861 Million.
This year’s Top earner and crowd favorite was AVENGER: Infinity War with a whopping $2,048.4 take at the
box office. That means AVENGER
made nearly 30 times more money at the box office then the Academy’s “Best”
picture selection – GREEN BOOK.
Although I’m sure winning the Oscar is a
great honor, I’m confident the producers of GREEN BOOK would gladly trade their
Oscar for the extra $1.979 Billion Avenger earned.
Hence, as in past years
in the money spending public’s opinion it was again no contest ….and the WINNER is, bank statement Please (drum roll),
the hands down winner by a country mile is (sorry GREEN BOOK): AVENGER: Infinity War!
As a footnote, if BlacKKKlansman
had won the Oscar for Best Costume Design, Virginia Governor Ralph
Northam would have been really pissed off since it would have been a rip off of
his 1984 Halloween costume and he has his Medical School yearbook photo to
prove it.
