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million in the U.S. and another $13 million abroad.
But other studios had taken
note as well, and the June
2011 release of Beginners was
overshadowed by two surprise
hits, Woody Allen’s Midnight
in Paris and Terence Malick’s
Tree of Life. So Beginners
earned just $5.8 million at
home. “Midnight in Paris just
blew us away,” Knudsen says.
Still, it was immediately
evident that Plummer would
be the man to beat at the Oscars. According to the oldschool producers’ handbook,
Knudsen and Van Hoy should
have summoned thunderbolts
from the sky when Plummer
left their names out of his acceptance speeches. But instead, they took it in stride.
“The only reason I felt it
was because we knew our
parents were watching the
Academy Awards, and all
they gave a shit about was
whether he was going to say
our name,” says Van Hoy.
“What I learned was not to
take that stuff so seriously.”
And though Plummer may
not have thanked them by
Director Braden
King (right),
producer Lars
Knudsen (center)
and 1st AD Chris
Carroll (left) on
the set of Here as
a massive blanket