Oscar Box Office Round Up

Five Oscars They Didn’t Hand Out at Last Night’s Ceremony

The Weekly Box-Office Round-Up / Dustin Rowles

Box Office Round-Ups | February 23, 2009 | Comments (21)

Before the Oscar ceremonies aired last night, there were a few awards handed out off-camera, that we now present to you in this morning’s box-office round-up.

5. Slumdog Millionaire ($8 million; $98 million): In addition to the other awards Millionaire took home last night, it also received the Juno Oscar for movie most likely to unfairly succumb to a massive backlash. It begins in earnest in 3 … 2 …. 1: “OVERrated!

4. He’s Just Not that Into You ($8.2 million; $70 million): Backstage last night, He’s Just Not That Into You won the Ocean’s 12 award for biggest waste of a blockbuster ensemble cast. And just to even the Academy Award statue score with Angelina, Jennifer Aniston proudly accepted the award, fist raised to the Heavens.

3. Coraline ($11 million; $54 million): After experiencing a measly box-office drop-off of only 25 percent in its third weekend (compare that to Friday the 13th whopping 80 percent drop-off from its second weekend), Coraline won The Visitor award for the best movie no one is talking about, ironically beating out The Visitor for the Oscar.

2. Taken ($11.4 million; $95 million: The Liam Neeson action pic, which is the number 2 film so far of 2009 (behind only Paul Blart) won the prestigious “Succeeded Because of Absolutely No Competition” award, in addition to the award for Best Jason Statham movie not starring Jason Statham.

1. Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail ($41 million): Tyler Perry’s latest took home one of last night’s biggest awards, the so-called “Motherfucker!” award, as in “Motherfucker! Can you believe this piece of shit opened with $41 million?” Who the hell did Rudy Huxtable have to blow for that opening?

The Boozehound will have a review up this afternoon.

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Just stop Tyler Perry, you have no talent, and don't belong on TBS. That's right, TBS, the network that airs Frank TV, has too much artistic integrity to air your shows.

Fuck you.

Posted by: George at February 23, 2009 10:04 AM

Poor Boozehound.

Posted by: admin at February 23, 2009 10:15 AM

Oh, please. Get over Juno already.

It deserved all the criticism it received. I saw it way before the hype and hated it. I saw Slumdog and thought it was good, but by no means Best picture worthy. Some of us can form our own opinions before the "backlash."

It deserves whats coming to it.

Posted by: Kate at February 23, 2009 10:33 AM

I saw it way before the hype and hated it.

But isn't that pretty much the default beginning line in any backlash salvo?

Not saying it didn't happen that way, mind you. Just saying that isn't going to be an effective defense against those who believe otherwise.

Posted by: Vermillion at February 23, 2009 10:38 AM

Poor Boozehound indeed. I wonder what he'll be sneaking in to the theater for this one. Homemade prison wine seems appropriate.

Posted by: battgirl at February 23, 2009 10:38 AM

Homemade prison wine seems appropriate.

Good call. That should sufficiently dull the pain of the impending sodomy.

Posted by: admin at February 23, 2009 10:47 AM

Yeah, Slumdog Millionaire! What a derivative piece of crap! How many times have we seen the same script about a love story between two poor kids. It's basically just Romeo and Juliet with a Bollywood casing! There's no passion or interesting levels. Not like Milk! It's nowhere near as stirring as Milk, a completely generic biopic that happened to make it first out of the gate because Gus Van Sant throws things together like a single mom making a bologna sandwich for her baby before she bundles him into the car. Hey, I'm mad that Prop 8 didn't pass too! People will remember Milk, and dash out to snatch it off the shelves. Just like they remembered A Beautiful Mind. Or Walk the Line. Or Shine.

Posted by: hatemail at February 23, 2009 10:47 AM

"But isn't that pretty much the default beginning line in any backlash salvo?

Not saying it didn't happen that way, mind you. Just saying that isn't going to be an effective defense against those who believe otherwise."

I don't know. I always thought the backlash came from a film getting lauded with praise that it didn't deserve and then people resenting that. I went to see it without having heard of it except from the description of what I'd be seeing. And I loathed it immediately. About a week later the insane praise started, followed by "this doesn't deserve this praise" backlash. But don't get me wrong, I was totally getting on that wagon then. ;)

Posted by: Kate at February 23, 2009 10:49 AM

Who is that woman, and why does she look like a man?

Posted by: Lucas at February 23, 2009 11:13 AM

I finally saw Coraline this weekend and was pleasantly surprised. What a cute, disturbing little feature. So precious, and so fucked up. It's the kind of film I want to show my kids some day to get them hooked on horror when they're at a really impressionable age. And can I tell you how much fun it was to watch a family with eight children through a hissy fit when any of the kids under five started crying and screaming. Well worth the extra 2 bucks for a 3-D showing.

Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2009 11:37 AM

Madea Goes To Jail opened at $41 MILLION??? Be proud, Tyler Perry. You achieved your latest success ripping off an idea that Jim Varney used almost 20 years ago.

Posted by: David at February 23, 2009 11:46 AM

Coraline sounds thrilling! I love Gaiman! Anyway, Slumdog might be a movie I'll watch after I finish re-watching Buffy. Hahahhahah....oh I think I'll watch The Wrestler BEFORE Slumdog. How about that?

Posted by: ph at February 23, 2009 12:27 PM

Or Capote. Or Malcolm X. Or The Hurricane. Or Ali. Or Cinderella Man. Or Ray.

Posted by: hatemail at February 23, 2009 2:22 PM

I didn't see Slumdog Millionaire. But I did see an episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire when it first came on and didn't think it was all that hot. Does that count?

Posted by: Odnon at February 23, 2009 2:30 PM

Well, anyone wanting "Coraline" in 3D best do it before Friday.

Neil has warned you and it's in your hands.

The Jonas.......is coming.

What the hell do you have against bologna sandwiches? Ye shall not be pejorative with my favorite lunch meat!

Posted by: Jay at February 23, 2009 3:00 PM

Caught Coraline 3D last weekend (before the J-word takes over the screen). It's a great horror flick for adults & children. Certainly the only Teri Hatcher movie I would recommend to others.

As for the 3D thing--the movie is perfectly enjoyable without it; the use of 3D is judicious (unlike say Journey to the Center of the Earth). It's a shame that the @#$% Tyler Perry flick will end up making 3x what Coraline will.

Posted by: True_Blue at February 23, 2009 3:24 PM

Slumdog Millionaire is a perfect little movie, and deserves all the love it gets. And godtopus, how adorable were all those children last night? I wanted to take them all home. Along with Dev Patel.

I love how the backlash starts the second Dustin does the countdown.

Haters are so predictable.

Posted by: figgy at February 23, 2009 3:26 PM

Ye shall not be pejorative with my favorite lunch meat!

Does bologna actually count as meat? I always thought of it as the "hot dog" of the sandwich world.

Posted by: admin at February 23, 2009 3:28 PM

Well I don't eat no vegetable bologna!

Posted by: Jay at February 23, 2009 3:42 PM

I wouldn't count on that.

Posted by: admin at February 23, 2009 4:23 PM

Ahh, come on, Juno deserved at least some of the backlash.

Say, in that hotel scene in Slumdog Millionaire, if after Samil had thrown Jamal out of the room, and Jamal had said, "Don't do it! This is one doodle that can't be undid, homeskillet!" before Samil closed the door and has his way with Latika, then, YES, it would deserve the same backlash as Juno.

I don't think Slumdog pretends to be anything other than what it is.

But maybe I don't talk sense. I'm off to shove chocolate down my oesophagus in hopes it will soothe my cramps.

Over-sharing? Yes, perhaps.

Now, off to tell everyone through a Facebook update.

Posted by: bakers_dozen at February 26, 2009 5:14 AM

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