Can she open a movie?
Jul. 22nd, 2010 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoA while back, someone made this post about whether George Clooney is really a movie star. The heart of their argument:
"There's one teensy-weensy problem, though, that nobody seems to have noticed. One tiny little thing missing from the George Clooney is the World's Biggest Movie Star storyline...nobody watches his movies."
Well... In that case, you have to wonder: Is Angelina Jolie a movie star?
Here are Jolie's numbers, from BoxOfficeMojo.com
Here are Clooney's.
Both have peak movies of $180-mumble million. Clooney has two -- Ocean's Eleven and The Perfect Storm. Jolie has one -- Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The problem? Well, as our poster says:
"(O)nly The Perfect Storm, released during the Clinton Administration, can truly be called “a George Clooney movie” in the way that, say, Forrest Gump is “a Tom Hanks movie” and virtually every Tom Cruise movie is, in fact, “a Tom Cruise movie”."
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is not "an Angelina Jolie movie." Mostly because (like Ocean's Eleven), it has Mr. Jolie, aka, Brad Pitt.
Jolie's highest solo movie is Wanted, at $134M.
Clooney's average is $53.9M. Jolie's? $49.0M.
I say all this because of Salt, and the way Jolie is being presented as a box office juggernaut.
It'll be interesting to see how it does.
"There's one teensy-weensy problem, though, that nobody seems to have noticed. One tiny little thing missing from the George Clooney is the World's Biggest Movie Star storyline...nobody watches his movies."
Well... In that case, you have to wonder: Is Angelina Jolie a movie star?
Here are Jolie's numbers, from BoxOfficeMojo.com
Here are Clooney's.
Both have peak movies of $180-mumble million. Clooney has two -- Ocean's Eleven and The Perfect Storm. Jolie has one -- Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The problem? Well, as our poster says:
"(O)nly The Perfect Storm, released during the Clinton Administration, can truly be called “a George Clooney movie” in the way that, say, Forrest Gump is “a Tom Hanks movie” and virtually every Tom Cruise movie is, in fact, “a Tom Cruise movie”."
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is not "an Angelina Jolie movie." Mostly because (like Ocean's Eleven), it has Mr. Jolie, aka, Brad Pitt.
Jolie's highest solo movie is Wanted, at $134M.
Clooney's average is $53.9M. Jolie's? $49.0M.
I say all this because of Salt, and the way Jolie is being presented as a box office juggernaut.
It'll be interesting to see how it does.
