{"id":1281319,"date":"2022-02-08T11:08:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1281319"},"modified":"2022-02-08T11:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:08:45","slug":"nolte-best-picture-nominees-are-all-box-office-flops-and-tv-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-best-picture-nominees-are-all-box-office-flops-and-tv-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: Best Picture Nominees Are All Box Office Flops and TV Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-best-picture-nominees-are-all-box-office-flops-and-tv-movies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1281319&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022oscarnomination1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The 2022 Oscar nominations for Best Picture make up the biggest pile of box office stiffs and TV movies we\u2019ve seen in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the rundown\u2026<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt1160419\/?ref_=bo_se_r_2\">Dune:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the biggest box office \u201chit\u201d of the bunch, which isn\u2019t saying much. <em>Dune<\/em> earned a measly $107 million domestic and a total of $399 worldwide (domestic + international). Between its production and marketing costs, though, there is no way <em>Dune<\/em> made a profit. And for a blockbuster of this type to top off at $107 million here in the U.S\u2026. That can only be seen as a flop.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt12789558\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\">Belfast<\/a>: <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Director Kenneth Branagh\u2019s feature flamed out with $7.5 million domestic and just a total of $21 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt10366460\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\">CODA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a TV movie produced for Apple+ subscribers. It\u2019s symbolic theatrical release earned just $1.05 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt11286314\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\">Don\u2019t Look Up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another TV movie (Netflix) that earned a measly $784,681 at the worldwide box office.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt14039582\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\">Drive My Car<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This three-hour critical darling earned just $944,796 here in the U.S. and a total of $3.2 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt9620288\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\">King Richard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even with Will Smith as its star, this biopic flamed out with $14.8 million domestic and a total of just $32 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt11271038\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\">Licorice Pizza<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>This indie \u201csensation\u201d has grossed just $12.7 million domestic and a total of $21.1 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt7740496\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\">Nightmare Alley<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This catastrophe earned just $10.8 million in the U.S. and a total of $29.8 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt10293406\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\">The Power of the Dog<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another Netflix TV movie that grossed just $54,608 worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt3581652\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\">West Side Story<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steven Spielberg\u2019s humiliating flop grossed just $36 million domestic and another $27.3 million overseas. How awful is that?<\/p>\n<p>Without calculating for 60 years of inflation, the original <em>West Side Story\u2019s<\/em> domestic gross topped the Spielberg remake by $8 million \u2014 $<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt0055614\/?ref_=bo_se_r_2\">44.1 million<\/a> in 1961 compared to just $36 million in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to recheck my math, but those ten Best Picture nominations add up to a total of $245 million at the domestic box office.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood is so broken, and I say that as someone who enjoyed a few of these titles, but still\u2026 This once great populist art form has turned into a masturbatory exercise in self-importance.<\/p>\n<p>Thank heaven for home video and a once sane Hollywood that produced enough classics and crowd-pleaser to get us through this drought of bubbled narcissism.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 Oscar nominations for Best Picture make up the biggest pile of box office stiffs and TV movies we\u2019ve seen in a long time. Here\u2019s the rundown\u2026 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}