A Quick Look at Box Office

As we head into the Producers Guild tomorrow, it’s a good time to look at how our contenders, or those we think will be contenders, or might be contenders, or who could be contenders are faring in this Oscar season. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will become the highest grossing Best Picture contender behind The Help (and Bridesmaids if you want to count it). It just hit the $90 mil mark and should hit $100 mil without blinking. Oscar nominations, if there are any, can only help the Dragon Tattoo but it will also do just fine without them.

1. The Help – $160 mil
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – $90 mil
3. Moneyball – $75 mil
4. War Horse – $67 mil
5. Midnight in Paris – $56 mil
6. Hugo – $54 mil
7. The Decendants – $47 mil
8. The Artist – $9 mil

Of course, The Artist hasn’t yet gone wide like the other films have, so it’s not a fair contest that way. But also, the only thing worth noting here is how much bloggers underestimated Dragon Tattoo and its current heat. It’s got word of mouth buzz. The producers don’t judge films on box office, really, and the thing is – it’s hard to use that as a measure of success. But I do like it that The Help and Dragon Tattoo are films with strong females in them – yet in every other way they’re opposite each other.