Anytime a small budget film garners the attention of the world and creates a word-of-mouth success, I get excited. Not for the pure financial gains that come to the studio who supported the project, but because it shows that in the media of cinema, there are other things than a blockbuster.
Today, Fox Searchlight announced that its newest box-office hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has just passed the $100 million mark in worldwide receipts. The film is poised to pass the $20 million domestic mark this weekend, and has become the studios seventh highest grossing film in just three weeks.
As it continues to compete with the major studio's summer tentpoles, I write this to remind you that there are other options besides big budgeted explosions. Sometimes, a story driven film is just what you needed to escape the rigors of reality. And with this film serving as the highest grossing speciality film of 2012, it definitely warrants your attention.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is currently playing in theaters everywhere.
About Stephen Davis
I owe this hobby/career to the one and only Stephanie Peterman who, while interning at Fox, told me that I had too many opinions and irrelevant information to keep it all bottled up inside. I survived my first rated R film, Alive, at the ripe age of 8, it took me months to grasp the fact that Julia Roberts actually died at the end of Steel Magnolias, and I might be the only person alive who actually enjoyed Sorority Row…for its comedic value of course. While my friends can drink you under the table, I can outwatch you when it comes iconic, yet horrid 80s films like Adventures in Babysitting and Troop Beverly Hills. I have no shame when it comes to what I like, and if you have a problem with that, then we’ll settle it on the racquetball court. I see too many movies to actually win any film trivia contest, so don’t waste your first pick on me. My friends rent movies from my bookcase shelves, and one day I do plan to start charging. I long to live in LA, where my movie obsession will actually help me fit in, but for now I am content with my home in Austin. I prefer indies to blockbusters, Longhorns to Sooners and Halloween to Friday the 13th. I miss the classics, as well as John Ritter, and I hope to one day sit down and interview the amazing Kate Winslet.
