« 500 Days Of Summer Does Sid & Nancy | Main | Starship Troopers Without The Subtext? »
July 29, 2009
Press Release - Reader Crosses $100m Worldwide
When the heat leave the Oscars and the domestic box office, things fall away. If you look at Box Office Mojo, you will see this film at $89 million worldwide. But The Weinstein Co is a little more interested in keeping track of those numbers... yet another cautionary tale about assuming that what you read, even on otherwise legit information sites, can come up short in some areas. In this case, it's BOM not cribbing foreign box office info from a variety of other sources, as it has no facility to gather foreign box office itself.
Oh yeah... and congrats to The Reader, the third $100 million worldwide grosser in TWC's history.
The release...
"THE READER" CROSSES $100 MILLION MARK WORLDWIDE
NEW YORK, NY--July 29, 2009 -- The Weinstein Company (TWC) is pleased to announce that THE READER, starring Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes has crossed over $100 million in worldwide box office receipts since its initial domestic release on December 10, 2008.
The film has been an international success for TWC and its foreign distribution partners, having been released in 46 countries and 32 languages to date. Most notably, in Germany, THE READER is the sixth highest grossing film of 2009, earning approximately $19 million to date since its release on February 26 through Senator. Other significant releases include the UK which earned approximately $8.5M since its release on January 2, 2009 through Entertainment Film; France, where it was released through SND on July 15, 2009 and earned approximately $3 million to date; Australia/New Zealand where the film has earned approximately $3.6M since its release on February 19, 2009 through Village Roadshow; and Spain which earned approximately $6.6M since its release on February 13, 2009 through On Pictures.
"The success of this film is really fulfilling as we made a movie that captivated a worldwide audience and it’s been thrilling to watch the THE READER being embraced by so many people,” said Harvey Weinstein in response to the accomplishment.
"We saw our domestic box office increase over 300% during the awards season, and knew that there was strong interest overseas in the picture,” said David Glasser, TWC's President of International Distribution. “TWC is excited to congratulate its international partners on helping us achieve this box office milestone."
Posted by dpoland at July 29, 2009 12:36 PM
Comments
The movie that single-handedly made the Academy say to itself; "Shit, we may need to add 5 movies to get these old geezers to avoid voting for films like this, and nominate flicks like The Dark Knight."
Congratulations Reader! Your earned that 100m!
Posted by: IOIOIOI ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 29, 2009 11:01 PM
I'd say The Reader earned it's $100m more than Frost/Nixon earned it's, er, $27m worldwide take.
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at July 29, 2009 11:28 PM
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)