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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Solid as a Brick Art House

We have a new leader on the per theatre charts as Brick opened with more than $80,000 in just 2 theatres for a per theatre average of $41,787. This bodes very well for this Friday's planned expansion and the film is nearly guaranteed some measure of mainstream success. That can't be said for the second place movie, Drawing Restraint 9; even though the film earned $18,011 in its lone theatre, it is destined to spend it time on the art house circuit by its very nature. Next up is the overall box office leader, Ice Age: The Meltdown with an average of $17,163; it will be interesting to see if it can repeat in the $10,000 club next weekend. Finally, we have Thank You for Smoking, the only holdover to top $10,000 per theatre. During its third week of release the film more than doubled it theatre count but its per theatre average remained solid at $12,749.

Other new limited releases this week include The Devil and Daniel Johnston, which performed adequately with $4,638 while Adam and Steve missed the top with an average of $3,908 in 17 theatres. The rest of the films struggled with Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School earning less than $100,000 in its 38 theatres for an average of just $2,439. Way down the list was Yang Ban XI with $1,438, Iron Island with $1,031 and Awesome: I F%!#in' Shot That with a mere $1,004.

This past week also saw milestones reached for a couple Per Theatre Charts alumni:


- C.S.Strowbridge


Date posted: 2006-04-04

Movies 
 Brick
 Drawing Restraint 9
 Ice Age: The Meltdown
 Thank You For Smoking
 The Devil and Daniel Johnston
 Adam & Steve
 Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
 Iron Island
 Awesome: I F%!#in' Shot That
 The World's Fastest Indian