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Oscars Did Not Drive Audience to Theaters on Monday: “Oppenheimer” Up Just 1%

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Ratings for the Oscars were good, and the ABC broadcast was certainly a showcase for the winners.

But the two movies that should have gotten box office bumps simply didn’t, at least on Monday.

“Oppenheimer” was up just 1% from Sunday with slightly less than $30,000 in its remaining theaters.

“Poor Things” — which won Best Actress and three big craft prizes — was down 14% from Sunday and just under $40,000.

No, the main interests on Monday were seeing “Dune Two” and “Kung Fu Panda 4.” I guess by now everyone who’s wanted to see the Oscar winners has satisfied that urge.

But that was Monday. Yesterday — Tuesday — may be a different, more encouraging story. We’ll check in during the afternoon and see what happened.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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