Hollywoood Likes Unpopular Movies

Don Feder has an interesting perspective on today's unpopular movies:

All of the Golden Globe winners were box office flops. Before the ceremony, Brokeback (The Marlboro Man meets The Bird Cage) had earned an anemic $36 million – compared to $587 million for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, released at about the same time.

None of the agit-prop epics beloved of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (which picks the Golden Globes) made it into the top 50 box-office grossers. Two barely made it in the top 100 – The Constant Gardener (#74) and Syriana (#91). I’m not counting Walk The Line, which was apolitical.

The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, and Kung Fu Hustle all were more popular with moviegoers than Brokeback Mountain (#102).

This year's Oscar ratings could be a disaster in the making.