THE PUBLIC HAD ALREADY VOTED WITH THEIR WALLETS!
Again this
year I truly appreciate the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences members picking Spotlight as their best motion picture of
the year, but in the ONLY category that really counts – MONEY MADE – it appears the American and International
audiences made a different decisions. When it comes to picking movies, I always
"trust the mob" so here is how the movie going and paying
public ranked this year’s movies as of 28 February 2016.
Movie
|
Worldwide
|
Domestic
|
|
1
|
Avenger: Age of Ultron
|
$1.406B
|
$459.0M
|
2
|
Furious 7
|
$1.163B
|
$353.0M
|
3
|
Star Wars
|
$1.122B
|
$926.0M
|
4
|
Jurassic World
|
$1.018B
|
$652.3M
|
5
|
Spectre
|
$879.5M
|
$199.8M
|
6
|
Inside Out
|
$856.8M
|
$356.5M
|
7
|
Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation
|
$682.3M
|
$195.0M
|
8
|
The Hunger Games: Part 2
|
$653.0M
|
$281.9M
|
and this is
who the Academy members nominated in the Best Picture category:
Movie
|
Worldwide
|
Domestic
|
|
1
|
The Martian
|
$624.0M
|
$228.4M
|
2
|
The Revenant
|
$404.0M
|
$170.5M
|
3
|
Mad Max: Fury
Road
|
$377.6M
|
$153.6M
|
4
|
Bridge of Spies
|
$164.3M
|
$72.2M
|
5
|
The Big Short
|
$123.9M
|
$68.5M
|
6
|
Spotlight
|
$61.8M
|
$29.2M
|
7
|
Brooklyn
|
$36.5M
|
$36.5M
|
8
|
Room
|
$22.0M
|
$13.5M
|
Notice
NONE of the eight nominated pictures is among the eight top money maker of the
past year although the Top Earning nominee, The Martian did come in at #9 with a
Worldwide take of $624.0 or about 44 percent of the take of the year’s top
grossing movie: Avenger: Age of Ultron. That means Avenger made nearly 23 times as
much at the box office as the “best” picture - Spotlight. I suspect the producers of Spotlight would
gladly trade their Oscar for the extra $1.344 Billion Avenger earned.
Although it is obvious that Avenger: Age of Ultron with almost a $1.406
Billion (with a “B”) earned Worldwide and $459 Million earned Domestically was this
year's Best Picture, the winner had to come from the nominees selected by
their Hollywood
elite peers but the Academy members didn’t even agree with “the Domestic
mob” rankings as reflected by how they spent their money. The top grossing nominee, The Martian, earned
over ten times as much as the winning picture: Spotlight. Does that make any sense? How good can a movie be if only a very few
people want to see it?
Again, this year it was no contest ….and the WINNER is, bank statement Please (drum roll),
the hands down winner by a country mile is (sorry Spotlight):
Avenger: Age of Ultron!
