{"id":17902,"date":"2012-11-08T15:51:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T20:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17902"},"modified":"2012-11-08T15:52:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T20:52:36","slug":"denzel-washingtons-flight-soars-above-box-office-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17902","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Washington\u2019s \u2018Flight\u2019 Soars Above Box Office Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Denzel Washington\u2019<\/strong>s acclaimed new film <em>\u2018Flight\u2019<\/em> is expected to score Oscar nominations, but few prognosticators expected it to open to huge box office numbers, since it was opening in a relatively small 1,884 theaters.<\/p>\n<p>But once again, the A-list actor proved that he is still one of the only truly bankable movie stars around.<\/p>\n<p><em>Flight<\/em> opened to an estimated $24.9 million, the third biggest opening ever for a movie opening in less than 2,000 theaters, it\u2019s per screen average of $13,275 was actually the highest of any of other film this week \u2014 including the weekend winner kid\u2019s movie <em>\u2018Wreck It Ralph\u2019<\/em> \u2014 and its A- Cinemascore rating suggests audiences will continue to build buzz around the film with positive word of mouth.<\/p>\n<p>This film\u2019s success bookends a strong year for <strong>Washington<\/strong>, who had of the biggest hits of his career with February\u2019s action thriller \u2018<em>Safe House.\u2019<\/em> The popularity of<em> \u2018Flight\u2019<\/em> adds to an impeccable track record for an actor who at 57 is arguably more popular than he has ever been before.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denzel Washington\u2019s acclaimed new film \u2018Flight\u2019 is expected to score Oscar nominations, but few prognosticators expected it to open to huge box office numbers, since it was opening in a relatively small 1,884 theaters. But once again, the A-list actor proved that he is still one of the only truly bankable movie stars around. Flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}