It's Awards Season! Yee-Haw!

Published: September 10, 2007, 1:24 pm

Tags: arts amp amp culture, bob odenkirk, christian bale, russell crowe, will arnett, will forte

Studio executives and audiences alike have emerged from their Labor Day weekends rubbing their eyes and stifling their yawns: Huh, award seasons starts now? Well, OK! Over the weekend, Lionsgate tried to hit the John Ford sweet spot with its prestige picture, 3:10 to Yuma, a western starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. It took in a modest $14 million haul, $4 million more than Halloween (#2) in its 2nd week of release and $6 million more than Superbad (#3) in its fourth. (Technically speaking, according to Box Office Mojo, Yuma scored the highest-grossing non-horror opening for the weekend. Wow!) Here in the city, the film grossed a little over $200,000 at 10 theaters. Its $20,000 average, while nothing to scoff at, does not inspire a terrible amount of confidence; the studio hopes to transform the film into this year's Crash, which means they are in for the long haul. (And I mean long Crash didn't inspire much confidence at the beginning either and for

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