Despite the overwhelming box-office success of “Precious” (the film only played in 18 theaters last weekend, but it raked in $104,000 per screen), and audience and critic’s speculating about the film’s Oscar promise, the LA Times reports that actual Oscar voters may not be as enthusiastic. In “
Oscars arrive late to the Precious Party,” Tom O’Neil relays that attendance was only “modest” at the official academy screening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, citing insider-reports that only 300-500 seats were filled in the 1,000 seat theatre.
He writes: ‘Attendance was modest at the recent, official academy screening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. By contrast, the place was packed last week to cheer a film that really has no shot at a best-picture bid: Michael Jackson’s documentary ‘This Is It.'”
Is it possible the academy doesn’t find anything precious about “Precious”?
