Midnight In Paris becomes Woody Allen's Top Film Of All Time

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Woody Allen is patting himself on the back as his latest flick, Midnight in Paris, has become his highest-grossing flick of all time in North America.

On Friday, the movie grossed $500,000 , pushing its total gross to $40.4 million and overtaking Allen’s flick Hannah and Her Sisters, which took $40.1 million in 1986.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) – It’s all over but the official announcement. On Friday, “Midnight in Paris” will become the top-grossing movie of Woody Allen‘s long career.

For several weeks, the amiable, picturesque comedy, set in the City of Light and starring Owen Wilson as a would-be novelist who finds a way to slip back to an era he idolizes, has been on track to dethrone “Hannah and Her Sisters” as the biggest grossing movie in Allen’s directorial career, which has lasted for 35 years and 41 films.

When he spoke to TheWrap last week, Sony PicturesClassic co-president Michael Barker called it a best-case scenario that the film would become Allen’s top grosser by the end of this week. Now, that will certainly be the case for a movie that he called “the perfect counter-programing for summer entertainment.”Sony aggressively pushed exhibitors to keep the movie on as many screens as possible; at the end of last weekend, it remained on more than 800 screens and had a gross of $38.6 million, putting it ahead of “Annie Hall”($38.2 million), $1.3 million behind Allen’s second-biggest film, “Manhattan,” and only $1.5 million behind “Hannah.”This week, the film steadily crept up on the record. It grossed $311,000 on Monday, $367,000 on Tuesday and $320,000 on Wednesday. Thursday’s gross should push it right to the verge of the $39.9 million gross for “Manhattan.”

On Friday the film drops to 706 screens, a loss of more than 100 screens but still a substantial total. And even a Friday gross of $300,000 — which would be its smallest Friday total since its first weekend, when the film was on only six screens — would be enough to pass “Hannah and Her Sisters” and make “Midnight” Allen’s biggest movie ever.

And it’s not going to stop there, said Barker. “It’s still playing in major, major theaters,” he said. “And I think what will happen is that a core number of theaters will play the picture throughout the entire summer.”
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