Brokeback Mountain has phenomenal opening
"The long-awaited film version of writer Annie Proulx's cowboy love story, Brokeback Mountain , opened December 9 to long lines of moviegoers in three cities. By the end of the weekend it had broken box-office records and carried home some of the first major prizes of the year-end season.
Open only in New York, San Francisco, and Los AngelesтАФfive theaters totalтАФthe Focus Features film raked in more than half a million dollars, for an average of $109,000 per location, the highest per-screen average for any movie released in 2005. That was more money in three days than the grand total grossed by such gay-inclusive 2005 films as Cote d'Azur, The Dying Gaul , and Gus Van Sant's Last Days . Van Sant was one of the directors who tried to get Brokeback made in the late 1990s and early 2000s, without success.
"This is an astonishing accomplishment and a real testament to how this film is connecting with audiences," said Neil G. Giuliano, president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. "Brokeback Mountain is truly a remarkable event, and its journey and impact are just beginning."
Directed by Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon), the film stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as cowboys who meet on the titular mountain in 1963, where they spend a summer together herding sheep and discovering a mutual attraction they can't resist. The film covers the subsequent 20 years of their lives as they continue their secret affair through marriages, long distance, and fear of societal condemnation.
The critical reception to the movie has been glowing since its debut in September at the Toronto Film Festival, where it won the top prize, and on Saturday the Los Angeles Film Critics Association named it the best film of the year. The group also gave Lee the Best Director prize. Gyllenhaal and Ledger did not win acting honors from the Los Angeles critics; that went to another actor in a gay role, Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in the film Capote. (Advocate.com)"
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"Oscar hopefuls Brokeback Mountain and Memoirs of a Geisha opened in only a handful of US cities, ahead of wider releases later this month." BBC Cinema News
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Kisses On Your Phenominal Opening!
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I keep mispronouncing it "Bareback Mountain". It must be my Freudian slip.
You are perhaps thinking of Borodin's classic
Night on Bare Mountain?
Ten Degrees of Seperation:
Night on Bald (Bare) Mountain was written by Modest Moussorgsky (Not Alexander Borodin. Borodin wrote Prince Igor.). Modest is better known for the Sanitary Napkin named for him; after which was named a Duchess well known for baring her mountain.
However; Moussorgsky once spent a bare night on Borodin.
Nikolay (AKA: Nickle Lay; He only charged five cents--Times were tough.) Rimsky-Korsekov wrote an opera about that night: Le Coq d'Or, Choreography bu Michel Fokine. Fokine! Fokine? "No, just watching television!"
Leno tonight: Ang Lee's next movie is about two gay plumbers who fall in love.
It's called Buttcrack Mountain. :oops:
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Night on Bald (Bare) Mountain was written by Modest Moussorgsky (Not Alexander Borodin. Borodin wrote Prince Igor.)
I stand corrected. Bald Mountain, eh? Must have been named after oneself. I do have a cousin who was deeply disappointed to find that Lord of the Rings was not a cinematic piece of gay pornography