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December 29, 2005
indieWIRE foreign pic poll and gamy grosses
29 crickets and programmers chirp in indieWIRE's " fourth foreign-language film survey". Amid the results, compiler Anthony Kaufman sounds this sad, sour note about the poll's topper: "In a slow year for foreign language films at the box office, few of the survey's top films broke [$1 million]. Kings and Queen—which not only was voted best film, but star Emmanuelle Devos was a widely popular favorite in the best actress category—made a paltry $290,000 in theaters after 30 weeks in release.
"Look at Me was the highest grossing top-rated film, at roughly $1.7 million, while 2046 was not far behind with nearly $1.5 million in ticket sales. The rest failed to crack the $1 million mark." [Pictured: Rois et Reine's Mathieu Amalric; Disclosure: I was one of the 29 who voted.]
Posted by pride at December 29, 2005 11:20 AM
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