Bullock still has it
$57.5 million over the 5 day Thanksgiving holiday for the family friendly sporting drama The Blind Side.
She turned 45 earlier this year but looks as great as ever. She is still clearly confident in her own skin (remember that nude on nude scene with a so much younger Ryan Reynolds in The Proposal; which other 45 year old woman would dare to do that?) and is a charismatic actress, whose persona and screen presence I enjoy watching as much as I ever did. And she's still just about the only consistent female box office draw in Hollywood today.
Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, an outside contender for an Oscar nomination for Best Female Actress. I know I've given Sandra Bullock a lot of flack over the years for her insistence on falling back to the romantic comedy time and time again despite her growing a little too old for them now but I genuinely thought The Proposal was her at the most agreeable she's been in years, and although All About Steve (15.01.10 in the U.K.) looks like a mis-step, we all know it's gonna make money. Bullock is box office, she never fails. Variety say her latest role in The Blind Slide, actually not a rom-com but an uplifting family "message" movie sporting drama, led by a woman, has now grossed over $100 million (production budget of $35 million) after a $57.5 million haul over the five day Thanksgiving holiday. There ain't no other woman in Hollywood today who would draw that kind of money, for this kind of story. Not Jolie, not Roberts, not Witherspoon, not Barrymore, not no-body.
The success of John Lee Hancock's (The Alamo, The Rookie) lies in the inoffensive nature of the story, which from the trailer obviously aimed at the big family crowd, and achieved it. The Blind Side is the kind of movie you could take you grandmother to see and your kid, and it work well to please all of you.