American Sniper: list of top-grossing war films, Bradley Cooper video

American Sniper has set its sights on another record: Within a matter of days, it will overtake Steven Spielberg's WWII classic Saving Private Ryan to become the top-grossing war-themed film of all time in North America, not accounting for inflation. Clint Eastwood's history-making movie jumped the $200 million mark on Sunday,

putting it ahead of Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, another WWII title, which topped out at $198.5 million domestically in 2001. American Sniper is distinct from those two film in being set during a modern-day conflict.

Saving Private Ryan, released in 1998, earned $216.7 million domestically. Taking inflation into account, that would equal roughly $312 million in today's terms. But a record is a record, and the history-making Sniper will cross $216 million sometime this week for Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow.

American Sniper is benefiting from a massive turnout in America's heartland, as well as from its six Oscar nominations, including best picture and best actor for Bradley Cooper's performance as the late Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL who fought in the second Iraq war. In celebrating Sniper's $200 million milestone, Warners domestic distribution chief Dan Fellman said that Eastwood "created a gripping drama with a rare insight into the toll of war that has resonated with audiences in almost every demographic." Here's a rundown of how films addressing post-9/11 conflicts, or terrorism, have performed, according to Rentrak:

Lone Survivor
Release: 12/25/13
Rating: R
Gross: $125,088,651

Zero Dark Thirty
Release: 12/19/12
Rating: R
Gross: $95,720,716

Act of Valor
Release: 2/24/12
Rating: R
Gross: $70,012,847

Jarhead
Release: 11/4/05
Rating: R
Gross: $62,696,152

The Kingdom
Release: 9/28/07
Rating: R
Gross: $47,536,778

Green Zone
Release: 3/12/10
Rating: R
Gross: $35,497,337

The Hurt Locker
Release: 6/26/09
Rating: R
Gross: $17,017,811
Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

On stage, Bradley Cooper plays Joseph Merrick, a disfigured man whose life story has been made into multiple theatre productions and a film. It is reported that the actor will next be heading to London for another run of The Elephant Man after it wraps on Broadway. While in New York Bradley has made a ritual of taking the subway to rehearsals and performances on a regular basis. But as he continues to enjoy public transport his career has taken off with not only an Oscar nod for his performance in American Sniper but also box office success. The total haul for American Sniper, which is up for six Academy Awards, stands at $200.4 million. Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Bradley Cooper in Vanity Fair magazine, January 2015


A video featuring pictures of Bradley Cooper, his co-stars Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Sienna Miller, girlfriend Suki Waterhouse, etc., and scenes from "American Sniper".