Box Office Archive for November, 2006
Little Children Soldier(s) On
In its eighth weekend in theaters, New Line
39 Comments »Friday estimates by Klady – 11/25
Happy Feet + Casino Royale + D
30 Comments »Sunday Estimates by Klady – 11/19
Box Office Mojo, for the sake of reference, has Happy Feet wining the weekend by $1.7 million. I imagine we will get more of a sense of
48 Comments »Sunday Estimates by Klady
Weekend (estimates) November 10 – 12, 2006
Title | Distributor | Gross (average) | % change | Theaters | Cume
Borat | Fox | 28.6 (11,130) | 8% | 2566 | 67.4
The Santa Clause 3 | BV | 16.9 (4,890) | -13% | 3458 | 41.1
Flushed Away | Par | 16.7 (4,510) | -11% | 3707 | 39.9
Stranger Than Fiction | Sony | 14.2 (6,280) | new | 2264 | 14.2
Saw III | Lions Gate | 6.5 (2,170) | -56% | 3013 | 69.8
Babel | Par Vantage | 5.5 (4,420) | 502% | 1251 | 7.4
The Departed | WB | 5.1 (2,310) | -34% | 2210 | 109.6
The Prestige | BV | 4.7 (2,090) | -38% | 2236 | 46
The Return | Focus | 4.7 (2,360) | new | 1986 | 4.7
A Good Year | Fox | 3.8 (1,850) | new | 2066 | 3.8
Flags of Our Fathers | Par | 2.8 (1,440) | -36% | 1963 | 31
The Queen | Miramax | 2.6 (5,430) | -10% | 484 | 13.8
Harsh Times | MGM | 1.8 (1,910) | new | 956 | 1.8
Man of the Year | Uni | 1.6 (1,000) | -57% | 1568 | 36.5
Open Season | Sony | 1.3 (1,180) | -55% | 1122 | 83.4
Flicka | Fox | 1.2 (990) | -55% | 1235 | 19.5
Marie Antoinette | Sony | 1.2 (1,670) | -47% | 705 | 14.9
The Guardian | BV | .75 (1,200) | -54% | 626 | 53.5
Facing the Giants | IDP | .67 (1,850) | -4% | 363 | 8.2
Running with Scissors | Sony | .61 (1,230) | -58% | 497 | 6.4
One Night with the King | Gener8Xion | .57 (1,290) | -47% | 440 | 12.7
Also debuting/expanding
Night of the Living Dead 3D | Midnight | .21 (1,060) | new | 200 | 0.21
Volver | Sony Classics | .17 (33,340) | -16% | 5 | 0.46
Copying Beethoven | MGM | 73,600 (2,830) | new | 26 | 0.07
Shut Up & Sing | Weinstein Co. | 67,300 (6,120) | -11% | 11 | 0.24
Come Early Morning | IDP | 49,400 (2,250) | new | 22 | 0.05
Fur | Picturehouse | 31,200 (7,800) | new | 4 | 0.03
Iraq in Fragments | Typecast | 23,400 (3,610) | new | 7 | 0.02
F*ck | Thinkfilm | 5,600 (2,800) | new | 2 | 0.01
"Now they're making millions but have only paid us 15 lei [around
The Borat lawsuit situation is real… but it has nothing to do with morality.
The headline of this entry is from a Daily Mail story about the people of Glod, where, apparently, SBC, Larry Charles & Co shot the Kazakh sequences of Borat. Of course, I took the comment out of context. The whole quote is:
Klady's Friday Estimates
Borat is up about 4%, Friday-to-Friday. It will be interesting to see what the Saturday number looks like, which should give a more accurate idea of what kind of traction the film is getting with adults who were not stepping forward in tracking a few weeks ago.
Fox has done well, though personally, my fear for them is that they have sold the phenomenon too much, sticking with their EW obsession through most of the week before switching to
Mondays With Borat
Mojo is reporting a $3.3 million Monday for Borat. This once again puts the film in excellent box office company.
The only film since Talladega Night
How Superman
I was reading a Merrill Lynch study on equity funding of movies. And it finally occurred to me how Warner Bros could claim profitability for Superman Returns without getting sued by Time-Warner stockholders.
Here is the chart… Click here to see it
And here is the math…
Superman Returns grosses $392 million worldwide. That
Sunday Estimates by Klady – 10/5
Borat.
Win. Win. Win.
Klady's Friday Estimates
Borat did over $10,630 per screen yesterday. Based on that, the estimates for the weekend should still vary between $22 million and $27 million.
The closest thing it a precedent here is Fahrenheit 9/11
The Borat Release Issue
There has been speculation about whether Fox’s late decision to go out with Borat on only 800 screens was a mistake, since it is going so well. Well, stop speculating. Inside of Fox, there are defintely some who now feel that way, thrilled by the late rush on the film and mighty matinees today.
But the odd part is, this is exactly what the point of pulling back to 800 screens was… to have a huge per-screen on opening weekend in the places where Fox knew they were strong and to allow word-of-mouth to do the job that publicity and marketing didn