While indie fare is being celebrated this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, the national boxoffice will be looking toward R-rated action fare and lowbrow comedy as it heads into what often proves to be the January doldrums. By relying on niche programming this frame, the competition could allow Universal Pictures' breakout comedy Meet the Fockers to rise again to the top spot. Last weekend, the movie dropped to the second slot in the face of new competition from Paramount Pictures' Coach Carter, but it could rebound. In any event, Fockers is expected to move past My Big Fat Greek Wedding, with its $241.4 million domestic gross, and Universal's own Bruce Almighty ($242.7 million) to become the second-highest-grossing live-action comedy of all time. The No. 1 film in that category remains 1990's Home Alone, at $285.8 million.
- 1/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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