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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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2004-07-12
Every week films get a second chance at success from the home market; or, in some cases, a first chance at success. Here is a list of wide releases, limited releases and a few from the growing TV on DVD section. This week's pick of the week was a real buried treasure, so well buried that I couldn't find it. Currently, there isn't a single release in the top ten on Amazon's Sales Chart. And the top performer from this week's releases is a case of controversy over quality.
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2004-03-31
No team could muster $10,000 per theatre this weekend, but two movies came awfully close. Bon Voyage, last week's winner, took top spot with an impressive $9,879 average in 6 theatres. Just $6 behind was Dogville which opened in 9 theatres.
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2004-03-11
While The Passion of the Christ finished first on the per theatre charts for the second weekend in a row, it the performance of a smaller movie, Goodbye, Lenin! that stole the show. Its per theatre average climbed nearly 10%. Now a movie having its per theatre average climb after the Oscars isn't surprising. However, Goodbye, Lenin! was ignored by the Oscar nomination committee. So the increase bodes very well for its long term success.
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2004-03-08
With its 11 Oscar wins and huge jump in theatre count, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King should have had the largest post-Oscar jump at the box office. And while in raw dollars it did, it was the lesser known The Barbarian Invasions that had the biggest percent jump. The Canadian film and winner of Best Foreign Language Film jumped more than 137% at the box office. Its per theatre average also jumped by nearly 40%, compared to the nearly 20% drop by Return of the King.
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2004-02-29
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King swept all the categories it was nominated for in winning a record-equaling 11 Oscars earlier this evening. Here is a list of the winners with reactions to be posted tomorrow.
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2004-02-29
The final results are in from our Predict the Academy Awards Competition, and Numbers readers are forecasting a Lord of the Rings sweep at the ceremony tonight.
A stunning 90% of voters are calling for Lord of the Rings to win Best Picture and Peter Jackson to win Best Director - some of the strongest predictions we've seen in the 7 years we've been running the poll.
The movie is also projected to win in every other category in which its nominated.
With no Rings stars nominated for acting awards though, some of the other results are still ripe for speculation.
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2004-02-29
The Numbers Predict the Academy Awards Competition closes in just a couple of hours, at noon Pacific Time, but it's not too late to submit your predictions for the Oscar winners and win some great prizes.
All week we've been using votes in the competition to predict Oscar winners.
This afternoon we'll call the results in all the remaining categories, but this morning we have one more result to call...
Best Foreign Language Film.
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2004-02-12
It's obvious The Dreamers wasn't hampered by its NC-17 rating. Not only is its per theatre average of $28,526 the best of the week, it was the best this year beating Big Fish by more than $8,000.
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2004-01-27
Nominations for the 76the Annual Academy Awards were announced today. As always, here is a list of the nominations, plus reactions below.
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2004-01-25
With the awards ceremony only hours away, here's one last look at the theatrical nominations for tonight's 61st annual Golden Globes awards.
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2003-12-02
Smaller, independent films dominated the top Ten Per Theatre Average chart this week, taking the first seven spots.
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2003-11-25
independent films is kicking into high gear, so we should be seeing a lot more limited releases topping the Per Theatre Average charts hoping to garner award nominations, Oscars and otherwise.
This week's winner was 21 Grams, which boasted an impressive cast, as well as an award-winning director. Unfortunately, it also has a $20 million production budget so it will have to rely on Oscar hype to earn back that investment for Focus Films. In its first weekend of release, 21 Grams brought in an impressive $274,454 in just 8 theatres for an average of $34,307 per theatre. That's the best per theatre average since Lost in Translation opened back in September. It is worth nothing that Lost in Translation was also a Focus Features film. So far this year, all four Focus Features films have opened number one on the per theatre average charts. An amazing feat.
Amazing could also be used to describe the performance of My Architect, which saw its per theatre average increase 14% during its second week of release. A second weekend average of $21,624 bodes very well for the wide rollout planned for early next year.
Also doing well at the box office was the U.S. release of The Barbarian Invasions, which already opened in its native Canada with a very successful, earning nearly $5 million, Canadian. Strong reviews helped the film to a solid $13,275 per theatre average.
The only other movie to make it in the $10,000 club was this week's box office winner, The Cat in the Hat.
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