Paramount Breaks One Billion In 2010

Yeah, yeah, I know that you were expecting to see an article by our new author, Eric, but he hasn’t written anything yet, and this is kind of important.

The news was released today that Paramount Pictures is the first distributing studio to break 1 Billion dollar domestic gross. The success is being attributed mostly to Iron Man 2, Shrek Forever After, and Shutter Island.

The next major release of  the studio is The Last Airbender, which is sure to put another successful run (at least a successful opening.) on the top of the mountain.

Paramount has released five films this year, the lowest number in the top five. This is also the second fastest reach to the billion dollar mark, in only 175 days. (The fastest studio to ever reach one billion dollars is Paramount of 2008, in 174 days.)

Following The Last Airbender, which hits July first, is Grease Sing-A-Long, which, while has a built in audience, is a limited release. Which might give some other studios a chance to catch up. It seems that Paramount has less releases in the coming months then any of the other top five, but Summit Entertainment (Currently Number Eight) has the advantage of another Twilight film (which I need not remind you, are historically high grossing.)

Who will get the highest gross of 2010? Honestly, I think its anyone’s game (Except for my studio… we don’t really have a chance.) The overall gross for the year is currently 5.247 Billion.

Now for some housekeeping:

First and foremost, now that I have a second author on-board, the tagline From One Film Geek To Another stopped making sense. So I toyed around a bit and came up with Movies, Television, and Film-making for Geeks.

Also, I realized that I need to market the blog a bit more, so I added, just as a first step to the marketing plan, Frames of Film to Twitter and Facebook. If you follow us and like us, I’ll be your friend. (No pun intended.)

Doug Hanna is the founder and chief box office nut of Frames of Film, he is a film-maker under his own brand name, Blue Squid Productions.

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