The Hurt Locker movie won both the Best Director and Best Picture awards the 82nd Academy Awards. Films that win Best Picture typically see a boost in box office revenues and in DVD sales. Bloombergreports that analysts expect the film's box office sales to double. The film has only made $21.4 million at the box office worldwide so doubling ticket sales will not be that significant.
Expanding the film to 1,000 theaters in the next few weeks would boost its worldwide box-office sales to an estimated $40 million, said David Joyce, an analyst with Miller Tabak & Co. in New York. The movie has taken in $21.4 million in global ticket sales since its June 26 release, according to Box Office Mojo, a researcher based in Sherman Oaks, California.
The Oscar box office bump is probably expected to be low because The Hurt Locker has been available on DVD since January. The Bloombergarticle does cite media analyst Hal Vogel, who thinks the film could sell another 1 million DVDs, which would be very significant. This would be in addition to the 725,000 Hurt Locker DVDs that have already been sold.
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