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Gadzooks, can\u2019t let a day go by without blogging. So I\u2019ll just toss some box-office trivia out there.<\/span><\/p>\n

With $498.2 million in the till worldwide, <\/span>Meet the Fockers<\/i> (<\/span>my review<\/a>) is now being touted as the top-grossing live-action comedy of <\/span>all time<\/a> \u2014 which is apparently a testament to how unusually popular this film is overseas, where comedies normally don\u2019t translate as well as action movies and the like. I am not sure how I feel about this. I suppose another, even more popular comedy will come along some day and set a brand-new record. And for that matter, the accuracy of this claim may depend on how we categorize such amusing but action- and effects-heavy films as, say, 1997\u2019s <\/span>Men in Black<\/i> ($589.4 million).<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, <\/span>Million Dollar Baby<\/a><\/i> is still in the weekly top ten, and with a domestic take of $94.2 million to date, it has already passed <\/span>Space Cowboys<\/i> to become Clint Eastwood\u2019s 2nd-highest-grossing film <\/span>as director<\/a> (after 1992\u2019s <\/span>Unforgiven<\/i>, $101.2 million), and his 3rd-highest-grossing film <\/span>as actor<\/a> (after <\/span>Unforgiven<\/i> and 1993\u2019s <\/span>In the Line of Fire<\/i>, $102.3 million). This is remarkable for a film that, by all accounts, Warner Brothers was very reluctant to produce, even with a budget in the tiny $25 \u2013 $30 million range. (I love the way Eastwood has talked about how Warner ignored his film and let it slip by under the radar while they focused all their efforts on the expensive mega-flop <\/span>Alexander<\/i>!)<\/span><\/p>\n

Incidentally, it seems Eastwood\u2019s biggest box-office success of all time \u2014 once the figures are adjusted for inflation \u2014 might be that orangutan movie, <\/span>Every Which Way but Loose<\/i>, which raked in $85.2 million way back in 1978. Only five of his movies have made more money than that, all of which came out after 1992, by which point ticket prices had gone way up and the dollar had gone way down.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"