Brokeback hits $31 million with no end in sight!!!

[eslgr8]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:30pm

Box Office Mojo reports that Brokeback Mountain made an additional $5,792,000 over the 4-day weekend on just 683 screens, with an $8,480 per screen average, hitting $30,825,000 in just 6 weeks!!! It's #9 for the week and THE ONLY FILM IN THE TOP TWENTY to increase its weekend gross!!!

Also, the latest compilation of Top Ten Lists shows Brokeback still Number 1 with 144 lists, followed by A History of Violence at 127. A hard to beat lead!

http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/2006/top_tens/00_chart.html

And BBM tops the awards scoreboard, with 41 wins so far, followed by Capote with 27.

http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/2006/scoreboard_critics.html

Finally, on a more reflective note, here's a beautiful article on the tranformative power of the film, written by an openly gay American actor currently residing in the UK:

http://ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/2006jan/0601.htm

Updated On: 1/16/06 at 12:30 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:33pm

Ready girls? Okay!

Money, money
That's the way
To validate
Our being gay
Go Brokeback
Go-o-o-o-o Brokeback!
WOOOOOO!

Updated On: 1/14/06 at 12:33 PM

[shameless]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:38pm

I knew it had to be a mainstream success when my mom got four of my aunts and my grandmother to go see it with her last weekend.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:39pm

*claps*

This makes me happy.

[robbiej]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:40pm

My mom called just to ask what I thought of it. I told her I didn't like it, but she should see it anyway. It's the perfect movie for straight people to feel good about how open minded they are.

HOWEVER, were I single, I'd tell her to stay away...all I need is the replay from 10 years ago:

"Being gay seems to be such a lonely life!"

[DAME]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:42pm

Very, very, cool. And not because as Namo and his witty sarcasm would like us to believe. I am happy because it is a beautiful film that richly deserves all its success.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:42pm

You just quoted Opposite Of Sex, didn't you?

[shameless]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:42pm

LOL! Robbie, you're not wrong, they all did come home feeling very proud of themelves.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:44pm

It's the perfect movie for straight people to feel good about how open minded they are.

NAILED it! Just like the audiences who would give Falsettos a standing ovation and walk out of the theater having done their bit for AIDS.

[robbiej]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:44pm

And isn't that what it's all about? Straight Pride!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:47pm

And feeling supported by their going to see a movie!

[shameless]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:48pm

But, all of them said it was a very well-made film and none of them made comments about being uncomfortable or grossed out. So, I still say it's helping to move this country in the right direction.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:49pm

except for those average americans.

[robbiej]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:50pm

I'm sorry...but I love being an above-average American!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:51pm

I feel personally embraced and a bit safer and more loved because your relatives saw Brokeback Mountain.

[shameless]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:52pm

No, Namo, you they would hate!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:55pm

I loved Bill Finn's writing in Falsettos:

"Four Jews in a room bitching."

"My father's a homo."

"The lesbians next door."

"We're sitting here watching Jewish boys who cannot play baseball play baseball."

What's not to like?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:56pm

I would MAKE THEM LOVE ME! You're not the only shameless one.

[robbiej]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:58pm

But, like Bonnie Raitt, you can't make them love you if they don't.

And SHE'S not a lesbian? Her and Melissa E. in BM would have been HOT!

[shameless]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:59pm

The sad part is that my grandmother would love him, but she's always had a thing for gay men.

I edited just in case.

Updated On: 1/14/06 at 12:59 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 1:14pm

You're allowed to say fag hag. As long as you acknowledge it's a misogynist construct. And used with love.

[shameless]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 1:16pm

Good to know, and of course it's said with love.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 1:25pm

That's great that it is still doing so well---and all the big awards are yet to come.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 1:32pm

I'm starting a petition to get Congress to see Brokeback Mountain en masse!

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 1:44pm

I'd love to see the First Cowboy's face during the film. I wonder if he and Laura have a screening planned.