These box office numbers for AS are clearly fakes paid for and put out by the Academy so people will be under the illusion there's a big hit nominated.
Cage in Moonstruck is still one of the most unintentionally funny things I've ever seen in my life. If I had seen that performance first I would have legitimately thought the actor was mentally handicapped.
Aw, I love that movie, cliched treacle and all. In fact I enjoyed almost everything Depp did between POTC1 and Public Enemies. Secret Window was pretty bad though.
Watch Disney significantly cut Depp's part in Alice 2 now that he's bordering on box office poison. They don't mess around these days with success, they'll probably find some smart way to make Alice 2 look appealing.
Kingsman may also have a decent run if it can clear 25m OW. Critical reception is amazing, so it might be a WOM movie. All of 2015's big successes might be R's until Furious 7 opens.
Because there are literally hundreds of dramas or R films or biopics the past decade that are more deserving but had modest or small box office runs. That's why.
I mean it's better than Transformers 10 or The Amazing-er Spider-Man having this kind of box office run for sure, but of all the dramas/biopics/war movies/R films to do this well, it's AS? Really? AS?!? It's just such an anti-climactic choice out of all these kinds of movies to finally have blockbuster success.
Cooper needs to get himself in a proper blockbuster tentpole type movie now. His draw power is officially huge, and that's mainly from doing the type of films that aren't usually big hits. Imagine if he was in the type that usually are.