We'd never sit here and pretend that box office takings are the be all and end all of any movie. Quite the contrary. Yet there's something immensely gratifying about the huge audience that Alfonso Cuaron's labor of love, Gravity, has found.
The movie, based on a simple premise of stranding George Clooney and Sandra Bullock in space, has become one of the very biggest hits of the year, with its takings now eclipsing the likes of The Wolverine and Star Trek Into Darkness. Over the past week, Gravity has now passed the $500m mark at the global box office, and right now, it's still got some road ahead of it too. The movie only made it to the UK last week, for instance, where it promptly knocked Thor: The Dark World off the top spot.
It seems that there's a good chance of an Oscar run for Gravity too, which will keep the movie in cinemas longer (although The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is about to eat up some of its screen space). The worst case scenario now though is that a standalone science-based movie has become one of the top films of 2013 in box office takings. We'd have gladly taken that at the start of the year. So, we bet, would Warner Bros...
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