The re-energized Paramount Vantage generated a lot of critical enthusiasm in 2007, even if it found winning over audiences more of a challenge. Sean Penn’s “Into the Wild,” the dominant player when SAG noms were announced, stalled at the boxoffice with $17.1 million. Similarly, “A Mighty Heart” has earned Angelina Jolie kudos, but as summer counterprogramming, it hit the wall at only $9.2 million. Poised to make its bid for audiences in the new year, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” already is one of the critics’ favorites from 2007 along with the Coen brothers’ “No Country for Old Men,” which Vantage co-produced with Miramax. For an encore, Vantage head John Lesher already has been paged to move over to run the show at Paramount.
| Paramount Vantage 2007 boxoffice | Release date | Boxoffice |
| Black Snake Moan | 3/2 | 9.4 |
| Year of the Dog | 4/13 | 1.5 |
| A Mighty Heart | 6/22 | 9.2 |
| Arctic Tale | 7/25 | 0.8 |
| Into the Wild | 9/21 | 17.1 |
| Margot at the Wedding | 11/16 | 1.8 |
| The Kite Runner | 12/14 | 6.4 |
| There Will be Blood | 12/26 | 0.4 |
| Babel | 10/27/06 | 14.3 |
| 2007 total: $60.9 mil | ||
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