Honor Role

The never ending battle for box office saw two newcomers, not only trounce last week's number one film, but they both did better than analysts had predicted.

Box Office Mojo's Brandon Gray puts it this way in his latest report:

"Family comedy was the order of the weekend as BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE 2 ($28 Million) and Nanny McPhee ($14.1 Million) dominated with stronger-than-expected bows, while Bubble fizzled (earning $72 Thousand) with its simultaneous release in theaters, on DVD and on TV..."

To be fair, Bubble is only playing in 32 theaters across the nation, thanks to a theater chain imposed boycott of the film. Given that limitation, I thought it did quite well all things considered.

As it turned out, I watched a lot more of the 12th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards than I had planned on. Here's a list of all of last night's winners. The best part of the evening was watching the cast of CRASH, (my pick for the best film of '05) beat out some pretty high profile competition, to walk away with the Best Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture award. Yahoo!! The presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to a Hollywood legend, former child star Shirley Temple , was pretty cool too.