Tag: Scott Glenn

The Hill Box Office Prediction

Blogger’s Update (08/23): I’m downgrading my prediction from $4.6M to $3.3M

Biographical sports drama The Hill might face an uphill climb at the box office this weekend, but Briarcliff Entertainment hopes it overperforms. Jeff Celentano directs with Colin Ford as real life baseball player Rickey Hill and Dennis Quaid as his father. Costars include Joelle Carter, Randy Houser, Bonnie Bedelia, and Scott Glenn.

This could manage to exceed expectations due to its faith-based themes. At the least, it might top Liam Neeson’s Retribution on the charts. Another potential plus could be today’s announcement of National Cinema Day where tickets will be $4 this Sunday across thousands of venues.

All that said, I’m not confident this reaches anywhere near $10 million and it might be lucky to gross half of that for its start.

The Hill opening weekend prediction: $3.3 million

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Gran Turismo Box Office Prediction

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Retribution Box Office Prediction

This Day in Movie History: January 26

On This Day in Movie History – January 26 – twenty four years ago, Driving Miss Daisy reached number one at the domestic box office. Bruce Beresford’s drama spanning the decades long relationship between an elderly widowed Georgia woman (Jessica Tandy) and her driver (Morgan Freeman) struck a major chord with audiences and grossed $106 million stateside. Additionally, Academy voters would honor it with Best Picture and Actress for Tandy. Interestingly, Daisy would be the rare movie to win the top Oscar prize without its director even being nominated. That wouldn’t occur again for 22 years when Argo won the award with director Ben Affleck not being recognized.

As for birthdays, today would have marked the 89th birthday of Paul Newman. The iconic star was nominated for ten Oscars yet won just once for 1986’s The Color of Money. In that picture, he reprised his role as Fast Eddie Felson that he made famous in 1961’s The Hustler. Among his many notable pictures: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, The Towering Inferno, Slap Shot, The Verdict, Nobody’s Fool, Road to Perdition, and Pixar’s Cars. Newman passed away in 2008.

Scott Glenn turns 73 today. The great character actor has appeared in many high-profile pictures working with Robert Altman in Nashville, Francis Ford Coppola in Apocalypse Now, and Oliver Stone in W. He appeared as astronaut Alan Shephard in The Right Stuff and costarred in Urban Cowboy, The Hunt for Red October, The Silence of the Lambs, Backdraft, Courage Under Fire, and the last two features in the Bourne franchise.

As for Six Degrees of Separation between Mr. Newman and Mr. Glenn:

Paul Newman was in Message in a Bottle with Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner was in Silverado with Scott Glenn

And that’s today – January 26 – in Movie History!