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Sunday, December 26th, 2010
Grit and Bear It
Little Fockers and True Grit led the Christmas charge with respective opening debuts estimated at $34 million and $25.5 million that topped weekend movie going. The session also featured a Christmas day bow for the animated Gulliver’s Travels, which netted a two-day gross of $6.9 million.
Bollywood’s seasonal offering Tees Maar Khann rang up an impressive $700,000. However, several other Hindi, Telegu and Tamil releases were non-starters. China’s If You Are the One 2 opened up day-and-date (a first) with its Mainland release and chimed in with a potent $208,000 launch.
The frame also featured a clutch of last-minute releases for award season consideration. Best of the bunch was Venice-prized Somewhere with $148,000 from seven venues. The animated The Illusionist displayed comparable strength with a two-day tally of $52,600 on two screens and a four screen push for Barney’s Version in Canada proved effective with $64,400 (a single U.S. Oscar qualifying run was unreported). Lastly, Country Strong lilted $33,800 from two sneak peeks.
Overall the Christmas session got clobbered with calendar positioning that landed the eve on Friday (expect something similar with New Years). And while an estimated $155 million weekend provided an 11% boost from the prior weekend it translated into a pounding 45% drop from 2009. As the door quickly closes on the year, box office gross has slipped behind the prior year and admissions are approaching close to double digit erosion. A year ago Avatar’s second weekend grossed $75.6 million and debuts of Sherlock Holmes and The Alvin Squeakquel added $62.4 million and $48.9 million respectively.
All that said, tracking wasn’t exactly on target for new entries and holdovers. The third in the Fockers series was expected to render a first weekend of between $40 million and $45 million while the sophomore edition of TRON: Legacy was pegged at $25 million. Conversely True Grit outperformed pundits soothsaying that had it shy of $20 million.
Holiday crowds clearly voted for The Fighter, Black Swan and The King’s Speech as their Oscar favorites. Still there are seven additional slots to fill and the campaigning is apt to intensify in the upcoming weeks.
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Weekend Estimates – December 24-26, 2010
| Title |
Distributor |
Gross (average) |
% change * |
Theaters |
Cume |
| Little Fockers |
Uni |
34.0 (9,610) |
NEW |
3536 |
48.2 |
| True Grit |
Par |
25.5 (8,360) |
NEW |
3047 |
36.6 |
| Tron: Legacy |
BV |
20.6 (5,960) |
-53% |
3451 |
88.7 |
| Chronicles of Narnia: Dawn Treader |
Fox |
10.9 (3,240) |
-12% |
3350 |
63.9 |
| The Fighter |
Par/Alliance |
8.6 (3,430) |
-29% |
2511 |
27.7 |
| Yogi Bear |
WB |
8.4 (2,380) |
-55% |
3515 |
36.3 |
| Gulliver’s Travels * |
Fox |
6.9 (2,700) |
NEW |
2546 |
6.9 |
| Tangled |
BV |
6.7 (2,590) |
-24% |
2582 |
143.8 |
| Fox Searchlight |
6.4 (4,390) |
-23% |
1466 |
28.9 |
| The Tourist |
Sony |
5.6 (2,020) |
-35% |
2756 |
41.1 |
| The King’s Speech |
Weinstein Co. |
4.6 (6,530) |
317% |
700 |
8.4 |
| How Do You Know |
Sony |
3.7 (1,480) |
-51% |
2483 |
15.1 |
| Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, Part 1* |
WB |
3.3 (1,920) |
-34% |
1732 |
273.1 |
| Tees Maar Khan |
UTV |
.70 (6,780) |
NEW |
103 |
0.7 |
| Due Date |
WB |
.37 (910) |
-71% |
404 |
98.3 |
| Unstoppable |
Fox |
.36 (920) |
-80% |
393 |
78.5 |
| Megamind |
Par |
.35 (460) |
-49% |
764 |
142.6 |
| Burlesque |
Sony |
.33 (660) |
-77% |
501 |
36.7 |
| The Social Network |
Sony |
.31 (1,230) |
9% |
249 |
92.3 |
| If You Are the One 2 |
China Lion |
.21 (9,040) |
NEW |
23 |
0.21 |
| 127 Hours |
Fox Searchlight |
.20 (1,720) |
-64% |
115 |
9.8 |
| * Christmas Day opening |
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| Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) |
|
$145.90 |
|
|
|
| % Change (Last Year) |
|
-45% |
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| % Change (Last Week) |
|
11% |
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| Also debuting/expanding |
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|
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| Somewhere |
Focus |
.15 (21,140) |
|
7 |
0.2 |
| Rabbit Hole |
Lionsgate |
88,700 (2,610) |
65% |
34 |
0.16 |
| Barney’s Version |
eOne |
64,400 (16,100) |
|
4 |
0.06 |
| Casino Jack |
IDP |
60,500 (4,030) |
75% |
15 |
0.11 |
| The Illusionist * |
Sony Classics |
52,600 (26,300) |
|
2 |
0.05 |
| Country Strong |
Sony |
33,800 (16,900) |
|
2 |
0.05 |
| The Tempest |
Miramax/Maple |
32,700 (2,520) |
-44% |
13 |
0.19 |
| Toonpur Ka Superhero |
Eros |
9,600 (400) |
|
24 |
0.01 |
| Isi Life Mein |
Rajshri |
4,500 (250) |
|
18 |
0.01 |
Domestic Market Share (Jan. 1 – Dec. 23, 2010)
| Distributor (releases) |
Gross |
Market Share |
| Warner Bros. (30) |
1861 |
18.40% |
| Paramount (19) |
1634.7 |
16.10% |
| Fox (19) |
1442.4 |
14.20% |
| Buena Vista (17) |
1349.1 |
13.30% |
| Sony (26) |
1239.1 |
12.20% |
| Universal (18) |
798.7 |
7.90% |
| Summit (11) |
522.2 |
5.20% |
| Lionsgate (16) |
519.3 |
5.10% |
| Fox Searchlight (8) |
105 |
1.00% |
| Overture (8) |
87.4 |
0.90% |
| Focus (7) |
75.2 |
0.70% |
| CBS (3) |
72.5 |
0.70% |
| Weinstein Co. (9) |
65.5 |
0.60% |
| Sony Classics (22) |
59.5 |
0.60% |
| MGM (1) |
50.4 |
0.50% |
| Other * (317) |
253.5 |
2.50% |
|
10135.5 |
100.00% |
| * none greater than .04% |
Top Limited Releases * (Jan. 1 – Dec. 23, 2010)
| Title |
Distributor |
Gross |
| Hubble 3D |
WB |
19,359,509 |
| The Ghost Writer |
Summit |
15,569,712 |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
Music Box/Alliance |
11,287,817 |
| The Young Victoria * |
Apparition/Alliance |
11,131,232 |
| 127 Hours |
Fox Searchlight |
9,321,571 |
| Get Low |
Sony Classics |
9,106,802 |
| Fair Game |
Summit |
8,650,388 |
| A Single Man * |
Weinstein Co. |
7,935,872 |
| The Girl Who Played with Fire |
Music Box/Alliance |
7,848,496 |
| Cyrus |
Fox Searchlight |
7,461,082 |
| Babies |
Focus |
7,444,272 |
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus |
E1/Sony Classics |
7,394,171 |
| Conviction |
Fox Searchlight |
6,768,063 |
| City Island |
Anchor Bay |
6,671,036 |
| The Last Station |
Sony Classics |
6,617,867 |
| Waiting for “Superman” |
Par Vantage |
6,410,257 |
| The Secret in Their Eyes |
Sony Classics |
6,391,436 |
| It’s Kind of a Funny Story |
Focus |
6,362,514 |
| Winter’s Bone |
Roadside Attraction |
6,237,371 |
| Under the Sea 3D * |
WB |
5,732,362 |
| * does not include 2009 box office |
Tags: 127 Hours, A Single Man, Babies, Barney's Version, Black Swan, Burlesque, Casino Jack, Chronicles of Narnia: Dawn Treader, City Island, Conviction, Country Strong, Cyrus, Due Date, Fair Game, Get Low, Gulliver's Travels, Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, how do you know, Hubble 3D, If You Are the One 2, Isi Life Mein, It's Kind Of A Funny Story, Little Fockers, Megamind, Part 1, Rabbit Hole, Somewhere, Tangled, Tees Maar Khan, The Fighter, The Ghost Writer, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Illusionist, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The King's Speech, The Last Station, The Secret In Their Eyes, The Social Network, The Tempest, The Tourist, The Young Victoria, Toonpur Ka Superhero, Tron - Legacy, True Grit, Under the Sea 3D, unstoppable, Waiting For 'Superman', Winter's Bone, Yogi Bear
Posted in MCN Originals, MCN Weekend, The Weekend Report | Comments Off on Weekend Box Office Report — December 26
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Tangled Up in Blues … and Reds
A quartet of new releases for Thanksgiving failed to topple Harry Potter from the top of the charts during the gobble, gobble fest. The first part of the Potter finale — Deathly Hallows — grossed an estimated $51.2 million for the weekend portion of the holiday frame. Just a cluck behind was the animated Rapunzel of Tangled with $49.2 million ($69.1 million for the 5-days).
The other three wide release freshmen clustered in positions five to seven with indifferent results. The glitzy musical Burlesque crooned $11.4 million, rom-com Love and Other Drugs ingested $9.6 million and Faster added a tortoise-paced $8.2 million.
The big noise of the session proved to be the well positioned awards contender The King’s Speech that amassed a heady $86,000 screen average from just four venues. There was also an impressive $610,000 for local hockey comedy Lance et compte in Quebec, but a dull $212,000 for Bollywood entry Break Ke Baad. And a new seasonal Nutcracker in 3D was virtually D.O.A. with a $62,700 tally from 42 screens.
Adding it all up, Thanksgiving box office was a smidgen less than last year’s result.
Industry trackers generally predicted that Deathly Hallows would prevail at the box office but few anticipated that Tangled would be truly competitive with the Hogwart’s grad. They also generally over estimated the strengths of the remaining trio of new entries; especially Faster, which was given the edge over Love and Other Drugs.
Overall weekend numbers added up to roughly $187 million that translated into a 6% decline from the immediate prior session. It was also a slight 1% decline from Thanksgiving weekend 2009 when The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Blind Side led with respectively $42.9 million and $40.1 million. The top new entry, Old Dogs, ranked fourth with $16.9 million.
The current session also saw expansions for 127 Hours and Fair Game that were encouraging but nonetheless displayed signs of fatigue. Still with critics groups just weeks away from announcements both films could well experience second winds. The potent arrival of The King’s Speech however has put that film in the forefront and its now vying with a real royal wedding as well as a smattering of pictures yet to be seen for late year honors.
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Weekend Estimates – November 26-28, 2010
| Title |
Distributor |
Gross (average) |
% change * |
Theaters |
Cume |
| Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows, Part 1* |
WB |
51.2 (12,420) |
-59% |
4125 |
221.2 |
| Tangled |
BV |
49.2 (13,660) |
NEW |
3603 |
69.1 |
| Megamind |
Par |
12.9 (3,770) |
-20% |
3411 |
130.5 |
| Unstoppable |
Fox |
11.7 (3,670) |
-10% |
3183 |
60.6 |
| Burlesque |
Sony |
11.4 (3,740) |
NEW |
3037 |
16.8 |
| Love and Other Drugs |
Fox |
9.6 (3,920) |
NEW |
2455 |
13.8 |
| Faster |
CBS |
8.2 (3,360) |
NEW |
2451 |
11.8 |
| Due Date |
WB |
7.2 (2,830) |
-19% |
2555 |
84.9 |
| The Next Three Days |
Lionsgate |
4.8 (1,860) |
-27% |
2564 |
14.5 |
| Morning Glory |
Par |
4.0 (1,630) |
-24% |
2441 |
26.4 |
| 127 Hours |
Searchlight |
1.7 (5,900) |
89% |
293 |
4.4 |
| Fair Game |
Summit |
1.6 (3,960) |
8% |
396 |
6 |
| For Colored Girls … |
Lionsgate |
1.4 (2,360) |
-38% |
605 |
36.6 |
| Red |
Summit |
1.4 (1,540) |
-43% |
914 |
86.2 |
| Skyline |
Uni/Alliance |
1.1 (900) |
-70% |
1189 |
20.1 |
| The Social Network |
Sony |
.73 (2,510) |
-22% |
291 |
90.4 |
| Secretariat |
BV |
.66 (1.310) |
-32% |
502 |
57.6 |
| Lance et compte |
Seville |
.61 (6,930) |
NEW |
88 |
0.61 |
| The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest |
Music Box/Alliance |
.36 (1,970) |
-10% |
184 |
4.2 |
| Despicable Me |
Uni |
.35 (1,320) |
31% |
266 |
249.7 |
| The King’s Speech |
Weinstein Co. |
.34 (86,030) |
NEW |
4 |
0.34 |
| Inside Job |
Sony Classics |
.31 (2,330) |
-9% |
132 |
2.6 |
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| Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) |
|
$179.40 |
|
|
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| % Change (Last Year) |
|
-1% |
|
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| % Change (Last Week) |
|
-6% |
|
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| Also debuting/expanding |
|
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| Break Ke Baad |
Reliance |
.21 (2,500) |
|
85 |
0.33 |
| Nutcracker 3D |
FreeStyle |
62,700 (1,490) |
|
42 |
0.09 |
| Made in Dagenham |
Sony Classics |
62.500 (5,680) |
64% |
11 |
0.12 |
| The Legend of Pale Male |
Balcony |
11,400 (11,400) |
|
1 |
0.01 |
| The Unjust |
CJ |
7,200 (7,200) |
|
1 |
0.01 |
| Tere Ishq Nachaye |
Eros |
4,200 (200) |
|
21 |
0.01 |
Domestic Market Share (Jan. 1 – Nov. 21, 2010)
| Distributor (releases) |
Gross |
Market Share |
| Warner Bros. (27) |
1674.1 |
17.80% |
| Paramount (18) |
1578.1 |
16.70% |
| Fox (17) |
1333.8 |
14.10% |
| Buena Vista (15) |
1174.6 |
12.50% |
| Sony (23) |
1161.6 |
12.30% |
| Universal (18) |
793.9 |
8.40% |
| Summit (11) |
512.7 |
5.40% |
| Lionsgate (15) |
500.4 |
5.30% |
| Overture (7) |
81.8 |
0.90% |
| Fox Searchlight (7) |
81.4 |
0.90% |
| Focus (7) |
75.2 |
0.80% |
| Weinstein Co. (7) |
62.6 |
0.70% |
| Sony Classics (21) |
57.8 |
0.60% |
| MGM (1) |
51.2 |
0.50% |
| CBS (2) |
50 |
0.50% |
| Other * (296) |
242.7 |
2.60% |
|
9431.9 |
100.00% |
| * none greater than .04% |
Top Limited Releases * (Jan. 1 – Nov. 21, 2010)
| Title |
Distributor |
Gross |
| Hubble 3D |
WB |
18,355,494 |
| The Ghost Writer |
Summit |
15,569,712 |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
Music Box/Alliance |
11,282,938 |
| The Young Victoria * |
Apparition/Alliance |
11,131,232 |
| Get Low |
Sony Classics |
9,080,285 |
| A Single Man * |
Weinstein Co. |
7,935,872 |
| The Girl Who Played with Fire |
Music Box/Alliance |
7,837,823 |
| Cyrus |
Fox Searchlight |
7,461,082 |
| Babies |
Focus |
7,444,272 |
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasus * |
E1/Sony Classics |
7,394,171 |
| City Island |
Anchor Bay |
6,671,036 |
| The Last Station |
Sony Classics |
6,617,867 |
| The Secret in Their Eyes |
Sony Classics |
6,391,436 |
| It’s Kind of a Funny Story |
Focus |
6,350,058 |
| Winter’s Bone |
Roadside Attraction |
6,225,414 |
| Waiting for “Superman” |
Par Vantage |
6,130,466 |
| Under the Sea 3D * |
WB |
5,504,062 |
| Precious |
Lions Gate |
5,085,319 |
| I Am Love |
Magnolia |
5,002,411 |
| An Education * |
Sony Classics |
4,963,224 |
| * does not include 2009 box office |
Tags: 127 Hours, A Single Man, An Education, Babies, break ke baad, Burlesque, City Island, Cyrus, Despicable Me, Due Date, Fair Game, Faster, For Colored Girls …, Get Low, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hubble 3D, I Am Love, Inside Job, It's Kind Of A Funny Story, Lance et compte, Love and Other Drugs, Made in Dagenham, Megamind, Morning Glory, Nutcracker 3D, Part 1, Precious, Red, Secretariat, skyline, Tangled, Tere Ishq Nachaye, The Ghost Writer, the girl who kicked the hornet's nest, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasus, The King's Speech, The Last Station, The Legend of Pale Male, The Next Three Days, The Secret In Their Eyes, The Social Network, The Unjust, The Young Victoria, Under the Sea 3D, unstoppable, Waiting For 'Superman', Winter's Bone
Posted in MCN Originals, MCN Weekend, Movie City News, The Weekend Report | Comments Off on Weekend Box Office Report — November 28
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
See … Saw … Ouch!
Saw 3D whipped into cinemas with an estimated $24.3 million to take top spot in weekend movie going. Distributors gave a wide berth to the Halloween frame when traditionally there are sharp drops in attendance; making the Saw finale the sole new national release.
A different sort of ghoul — the Millennium finale The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest — went limited wide to solid returns of $890,000, but otherwise the frame’s new entries were dominated by niche and exclusive launches. The best of the bunch was the Chinese trembler Aftershock with a single screen entry of $17,600. Other newcomers with good but not spectacular returns included indie drama Welcome to the Riley’s, Brit spy spoof Wild Target, Mexican prize winner Nora’s Will, Claude Chabrol’s final effort Bellamy and non-fiction entry Waste Land.
Overall box office saw a sharp fall from last weekend and a slight bump from 2009 results.
The seventh annual edition of the Saw franchise was hoping for an exit with bite with the addition of stereoscopic imagery. But pre-release tracking indicated that with or without gimmicks the mania was fading and its mid-$20 million weekend tally was pretty much in line with pundit’s predictions. The gore crowd would appear to be sated with current splatter fare but the past month has seen every segment of the audience unenthusiastic for the new crop of movies beyond their opening sessions.
The global juggernaut for the Millennium trilogy continued with the U.S. bow of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. The first installment, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, has racked up $99 million internationally and it and its second chapter are the top grossing foreign-language movies in America post-Pan’s Labyrinth.
Weekend revenues generated about $95 million in sales that translated into a 28% drop from the immediate prior session. It was a modest 6% improvement from 2009 when Michael Jackson: This Is It bowed to $23.2 million followed by Paranormal Activity with $16.4 million.
The fact-based Conviction expanded nationally to fair results and appears to be headed to the same sort of indifferent commercial returns as the rest of the early award season contenders. A sharp drop for last weekend’s Hereafter departs from the sort of holds associated with recent films directed by Clint Eastwood whereas the better than expected stamina of the geezer spies of RED has confounded box office mavens.
But apart from Jackass 3D (which passed a $100 million tally this weekend) such well-reviewed positive word-of-mouth entries as The Social Network and Secretariat have struggled to maintain a presence (forget about momentum) in a marketplace that has all but eliminated the possibility of a second wind.
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Weekend Estimates – October 29-31, 2010
| Title |
Distributor |
Gross (average) |
% change * |
Theaters |
Cume |
| Saw 3D |
Lionsgate |
24.3 (8,660) |
New |
2808 |
24.3 |
| Paranormal Activity 2 |
Par |
16.4 (5,070) |
-60% |
3239 |
65.6 |
| Red |
Summit |
10.9 (3,250) |
-28% |
3349 |
59 |
| Jackass 3D |
Par |
8.5 (2,720) |
-60% |
3139 |
101.7 |
| Hereafter |
WB |
6.4 (2,630) |
-47% |
2424 |
22.2 |
| Secretariat |
BV |
5.0 (1,610) |
-28% |
3108 |
44.7 |
| The Social Network |
Sony |
4.7 (1,690) |
-36% |
2767 |
79.7 |
| Life As We Know It |
WB |
4.1 (1,440) |
-33% |
2860 |
43.6 |
| The Town |
WB |
2.0 (1,250) |
-27% |
1608 |
87.7 |
| Conviction |
Fox Searchlight |
1.8 (3,220) |
501% |
565 |
2.4 |
| Legend of the Guardians |
WB |
1.8 (880) |
-46% |
2010 |
52.7 |
| Easy A |
Sony |
1.1(880) |
-37% |
1262 |
56.3 |
| The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest |
Music Box/Alliance |
.89 (5,830) |
New |
152 |
0.89 |
| Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps |
Fox |
.78 (840) |
-37% |
933 |
51.2 |
| Waiting for “Superman” |
Par Vantage |
.52 (1,580) |
-33% |
330 |
4.6 |
| Devil |
Uni |
.51 (800) |
-21% |
635 |
33.1 |
| Alpha and Omega |
Lionsgate |
.48 (710) |
-34% |
676 |
24.1 |
| It’s Kind of a Funny Story |
Focus |
.46 (960) |
-32% |
477 |
5.8 |
| You Again |
BV |
.41 (610) |
-37% |
673 |
24.7 |
| You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger |
Sony Classics |
.33 (1,022) |
-24% |
323 |
2.4 |
| Toy Story 3 |
BV |
.31 (920) |
-34% |
337 |
413.9 |
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| Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) |
|
$89.70 |
|
|
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| % Change (Last Year) |
|
6% |
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| % Change (Last Week) |
|
-28% |
|
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| Also debuting/expanding |
|
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| Stone |
Overture |
.22 (1,760) |
-39% |
125 |
1.2 |
| Nowhere Boy |
Weinstein Co. |
.13 (840) |
-62% |
153 |
1 |
| 10.50 |
Alliance |
55,800 (4,290) |
|
13 |
0.06 |
| Welcome to the Riley’s |
IDP |
41,600 (4,160) |
|
10 |
0.04 |
| Nora’s Will |
Menemsha |
25,300 (4,220) |
|
6 |
0.03 |
| Wild Target |
FreeStyle |
23,200 (5,800) |
|
4 |
0.02 |
| Bellamy |
IFC |
19,700 (9,850) |
|
2 |
0.02 |
| Monsters |
Magnolia |
18,100 (6,030) |
|
3 |
0.02 |
| Aftershock |
AMC |
17,600 (17,600) |
|
1 |
0.02 |
| Waste Land |
Arthouse |
10.300 (10,300) |
|
1 |
0.01 |
| Walkaway |
IABA |
9,400 (360) |
|
26 |
0.01 |
| Strange Powers |
Variance |
4,800 (4,800) |
|
1 |
0.01 |
| The Kids Grow Up |
Shadow |
4,600 (4,600) |
|
1 |
0.01 |
Domestic Market Share (Jan. 1 – Oct. 28, 2010)
| Distributor (releases) |
Gross |
Market Share |
| Warner Bros. (25) |
1436.3 |
16.40% |
| Paramount (16) |
1389.1 |
15.90% |
| Fox (16) |
1289.8 |
14.70% |
| Buena Vista (15) |
1155.5 |
13.20% |
| Sony (23) |
1142.4 |
13.10% |
| Universal (17) |
774.3 |
8.90% |
| Summit (10) |
473.3 |
5.40% |
| Lionsgate (12) |
412.7 |
4.70% |
| Overture (7) |
80.6 |
0.90% |
| Focus (7) |
74.1 |
0.80% |
| Fox Searchlight (6) |
73.4 |
0.80% |
| Weinstein Co. (7) |
61.9 |
0.70% |
| Sony Classics (21) |
54.7 |
0.60% |
| MGM (1) |
51.2 |
0.60% |
| CBS (2) |
50 |
0.60% |
| Other * (277) |
229.7 |
2.70% |
|
8749 |
100.00% |
| * none greater than .04% |
Top Limited Releases * (Jan. 1 – Oct. 28, 2010)
| Title |
Distributor |
Gross |
| Hubble 3D |
WB |
17,246,918 |
| The Ghost Writer |
Summit |
15,569,712 |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
Music Box/Alliance |
11,270,373 |
| The Young Victoria * |
Apparition/Alliance |
11,131,232 |
| Get Low |
Sony Classics |
8,980,294 |
| A Single Man * |
Weinstein Co. |
7,935,872 |
| The Girl Who Played with Fire |
Music Box/Alliance |
7,768,761 |
| Cyrus |
Fox Searchlight |
7,461,082 |
| Babies |
Focus |
7,444,272 |
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus * |
E1/Sony Classics |
7,394,171 |
| City Island |
Anchor Bay |
6,671,036 |
| The Last Station |
Sony Classics |
6,617,867 |
| The Secret in Their Eyes |
Sony Classics |
6,391,436 |
| Winter’s Bone |
Roadside Attractions |
6,204,696 |
| It’s Kind of a Funny Story |
Focus |
5,342,641 |
| Under the Sea 3D * |
WB |
5,256,073 |
| I Am Love |
Magnolia |
4,982,446 |
| An Education * |
Sony Classics |
4,963,224 |
| The Hurt Locker * |
Summit |
4,531,548 |
| Solitary Man |
Anchor Bay |
4,360,548 |
| * does not include 2009 box office |
Tags: 10.50, A Single Man, Aftershock, Alpha and Omega, An Education, Babies, Bellamy, City Island, Conviction, Cyrus, Devil, Easy A, Get Low, Hereafter, Hubble 3D, I Am Love, It's Kind Of A Funny Story, Jackass 3D, Legend of the Guardians, Life As We Know It, Monsters, Nora's Will, Nowhere Boy, Paranormal Activity 2, Red, Saw 3D, Secretariat, solitary man, Stone, Strange Powers, The Ghost Writer, the girl who kicked the hornet's nest, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Hurt Locker, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Kids Grow Up, The Last Station, The Secret In Their Eyes, The Social Network, The Town, The Young Victoria, Toy Story 3, Under the Sea 3D, Waiting For 'Superman', Walkaway, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Waste Land, Welcome to the Rileys, Wild Target, Winter's Bone, You Again, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
