I Heart Huckabees again led a busy week on the Per Theatre Charts with just over $900,000 in 44 theatres for an average of $20,480. Guiana 1838 continues to impress, earning $16,610 in its lone theatre. The award season hopeful, Stage Beauty, got off to a good start with an average of $12,885 in three theatres. And Tarnation opened in one theatre over the weekend and earned an estimate 58 times its $220 production budget with $12,740. (Although that production budget is misleading because it only takes into account the editing software and not the decade's worth of home movie film, still photographs, etc. used to make the film, nor post-production, prints and advertising.)

This past week also saw some milestones reached for several Per Theatre Charts alumnus:

• A Dirty Shame reached $1 million sometime during the mid-week.
• Tae Guik Gi: The Brotherhood of War, one of the biggest South Korean films of all time, also reached $1 million at the box office.
• Intimate Strangers has made it all the way to $2 million.
• The Motorcycle Diaries had a million dollar weekend and has now hit $3 million total. And that won't be the last milestone it hits before the end of its run.
• A Day Without a Mexican, which made it to $3 million relatively quickly, has finally reached $4 million just shy of 150 days into its run.

Date posted: 2004-10-12