According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, an art house weepie about two star-crossed ranch hands already appears to be crossing over into mainstream hit status. Budgeted at an estimated $14 million, the film, which is playing in only 683 theaters nationwide, has grossed a projected $32 million as of Monday. And now its embrace by the 84 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. before a nationwide TV audience should allow Focus to further broaden the movie's release into the heartland.

Heading into the Golden Globes, Brokeback led the pack with seven nominations and scored a solid victory by picking up four of them -- even if Heath Ledger's star turn as a man of few words failed to win best actor honors, which instead went to Philip Seymour Hoffman's far more verbally dexterous performance in Capote.

Brokeback Mountain was released December 9th, 2005 and stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Valerie Planche, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, David Trimble, Linda Cardellini. The film is directed by Ang Lee.

Golden Globes episode 63.1, "The 63rd Annual Golden Globes"