Image; Lovely frame from cinematographer László Baranyai in The Death and Life of Otto Bloom.
Let’s do the Lion ritual first. At number five, after nine weeks, still on 252 screens down twenty, weekend box office down from $670,000 to $553,000, and now at $2195/screen, it has now made $28,605,539 in local box office.
This is an end run, which means it won’t make $30m, unless… Transmission is about to reboot it with the director’s cut. That is truly extraordinary. Also surprising is the opinion around the traps that the film can’t possibly do the business it has done unless people are GOING TO SEE IT MORE THAN ONCE. Even though it is not a comedy, or a sex romp or a rom-com or full of explosions.
