National Gallery (2014)

National Gallery poster
Theatrical Performance
Domestic Box Office $253,941Details
International Box Office $1,357,828Details
Worldwide Box Office $1,611,769
Further financial details...

Synopsis

London's National Gallery, one of the world's foremost art institutions, is itself portrayed as a brilliant work of art in this, Frederick Wiseman's 39th documentary and counting. Wiseman listens raptly as a panoply of docents decode the great canvases of Da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Turner; he visits with the museum's restorers as they use magnifying glasses, tiny eye-droppers, scalpels, and Q-tips to repair an infinitesimal chip; he attends administrative meetings in which senior executives do (polite) battle with younger ones who want the museum to become less stodgy and more welcoming to a larger cross-section of the public. But most of all, we experience the joy of spending time with the aforementioned masters as well as Vermeer and Caravaggio, Titian and Velázquez, Pissarro and Rubens, and listen to the connoisseurs who discourse upon the aesthetic, historical, religious and psychological underpinnings of these masterpieces.

Metrics

Opening Weekend:$10,049 (4.0% of total gross)
Legs:10.87 (domestic box office/biggest weekend)
Domestic Share:15.8% (domestic box office/worldwide)
Theater counts:1 opening theaters/15 max. theaters, 1.3 weeks average run per theater
Infl. Adj. Dom. BO $332,423

Latest Ranking on Cumulative Box Office Lists

RecordRankAmount
All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 11,001-11,100) 11,077 $253,941
All Time International Box Office (Rank 9,801-9,900) 9,859 $1,357,828
All Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 13,701-13,800) 13,703 $1,611,769
All Time Domestic Highest Grossing Limited Release Movies (Rank 3,301-3,400) 3,313 $253,941

See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records.


Movie Details

Domestic Releases: November 5th, 2014 (Limited) by Zipporah
International Releases: March 19th, 2015 (Wide) (Spain)
August 25th, 2016 (Wide) (South Korea)
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Running Time: 183 minutes
Comparisons: vs. En kongelig affære
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Keywords: Museum, Set in London
Source:Based on Real Life Events
Genre:Documentary
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Factual
Production/Financing Companies: Gallery Film, Ideale Audience, Canal Plus, Planete plus, Le Fresnoy
Production Countries: France, United Kingdom, United States
Languages: English

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Domestic Cumulative Box Office Records

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Nov 7, 2014 63 $10,049   1 $10,049   $13,165 1
Nov 14, 2014 57 $17,435 +73% 2 $8,718   $36,771 2
Nov 21, 2014 50 $18,391 +5% 7 $2,627   $67,028 3
Nov 28, 2014 45 $23,372 +27% 10 $2,337   $100,134 4

Daily Box Office Performance

Weekly Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Nov 7, 2014 60 $16,220   1 $16,220   $19,336 2
Nov 14, 2014 58 $29,301 +81% 3 $9,767   $48,637 3
Nov 21, 2014 53 $28,125 -4% 8 $3,516   $76,762 4
Nov 28, 2014 48 $32,059 +14% 10 $3,206   $108,821 5
Dec 5, 2014 53 $20,085 -37% 9 $2,232   $128,906 6
Dec 12, 2014 59 $13,095 -35% 13 $1,007   $142,001 7
Dec 19, 2014 54 $23,725 +81% 15 $1,582   $165,726 8
Dec 26, 2014 54 $23,618 n/c 14 $1,687   $189,344 9
Jan 2, 2015 67 $9,068 -62% 9 $1,008   $198,412 10
Jan 9, 2015 73 $4,852 -46% 10 $485   $203,264 11
Jan 16, 2015 66 $16,107 +232% 10 $1,611   $219,371 12
Jan 23, 2015 71 $14,530 -10% 11 $1,321   $233,901 13
Jan 30, 2015 87 $1,568 -89% 2 $784   $235,469 14
Feb 6, 2015 83 $5,019 +220% 3 $1,673   $240,488 15
Feb 13, 2015 86 $4,259 -15% 5 $852   $244,747 16
Feb 20, 2015 85 $4,043 -5% 4 $1,011   $248,790 17
Feb 27, 2015 99 $2,993 -26% 2 $1,497   $251,783 18
Mar 6, 2015 109 $402 -87% 2 $201   $252,185 19
Mar 13, 2015 96 $1,112 +177% 2 $556   $253,297 20
Mar 20, 2015 97 $644 -42% 1 $644   $253,941 21

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
South Korea 8/25/2016 $5,578 2 4 10 $33,799 10/7/2016
Spain 3/19/2015 $8,229 9 12 68 $81,592 11/28/2018
 
Rest of World $1,242,437
 
International Total$1,357,828 11/28/2018

International Cumulative Box Office Records


Worldwide Cumulative Box Office Records


Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue are available through our research services. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com.

Interviewee(s)

Nicholas Penny    Himself
Larry Keith    Himself
Luke Syson    Himself
Dawson Carr    Himself
Ashok Roy    Himself
David Jaffe    Himself
Carol Plazzotta    Herself
Jill Preston    Herself
Per Rumberg    Himself
Susan Foister    Herself

For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.

Production and Technical Credits

Frederick Wiseman    Director
Frederick Wiseman    Producer
Pierre-Olivier Bardet    Producer
Frederick Wiseman    Editor
Emmanuel Croset    Editor
John Davey    Director of Photography
Frederick Wiseman    Sound Designer
Emmanuel Croset    Sound Mixer
Nathalie Vigneres    Assistant Editor
Christina Hunt    Assistant Editor
Karen Konicek    Production Manager

Weekend Estimates: Dumb and Dumber Top

November 16th, 2014

Dumb and Dumber To poster

The box office chart is starting to take on a decidedly seasonal look, with a comedy sequel topping the chart, a smattering of Oscar hopefuls doing well in limited release, and not a single top 10 film dropping by more than 50% from last weekend. The comedy sequel, Dumb and Dumber To, will narrowly win the weekend with a shade over $38 million, per Universal’s Sunday estimate. That’s $2 million more than Big Hero 6 will post in its second weekend in release. The animated adventure will be off just 36% from last weekend. Also posting an impressive hold from a big opening weekend is Interstellar, with $29.1 million—39% below its opening frame. More...

Per Theater Chart: Everything Above All Others

November 12th, 2014

The Theory of Everything poster

There were four films in the $10,000 club, including The Theory of Everything, which led the way with an average of $41,753 in five theaters. This is high enough to make some measure of mainstream success nearly inevitable. Up next were a pair of wide releases. Big Hero 6 earned an average of $14,947, while Interstellar was right behind with an average of $13,342. The final film in the $10,000 club was National Gallery, which earned $10,049 in one theater over the weekend for a total opening of $13,165.

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Everything is a Limited Release

November 7th, 2014

The Theory of Everything poster
There are a ton of limited releases coming out this week, including The Theory of Everything, which many people think will be an Awards Season contender. There are also a couple of foreign-language films worth checking out, Why Don't You Play in Hell and The Way He Looks. And finally, there are a trio of documentaries, Actress, Death Metal Angola, and National Gallery. Unfortunately, there are also a lot of films earning mixed or weaker reviews, so hopefully the good films don't get squeezed out.

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Synopsis

London's National Gallery, one of the world's foremost art institutions, is itself portrayed as a brilliant work of art in this, Frederick Wiseman's 39th documentary and counting. Wiseman listens raptly as a panoply of docents decode the great canvases of Da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Turner; he visits with the museum's restorers as they use magnifying glasses, tiny eye-droppers, scalpels, and Q-tips to repair an infinitesimal chip; he attends administrative meetings in which senior executives do (polite) battle with younger ones who want the museum to become less stodgy and more welcoming to a larger cross-section of the public. But most of all, we experience the joy of spending time with the aforementioned masters as well as Vermeer and Caravaggio, Titian and Velázquez, Pissarro and Rubens, and listen to the connoisseurs who discourse upon the aesthetic, historical, religious and psychological underpinnings of these masterpieces.

Metrics

Opening Weekend:$10,049 (4.0% of total gross)
Legs:10.87 (domestic box office/biggest weekend)
Domestic Share:15.8% (domestic box office/worldwide)
Theater counts:1 opening theaters/15 max. theaters, 1.3 weeks average run per theater
Infl. Adj. Dom. BO $332,423

Latest Ranking on Cumulative Box Office Lists

RecordRankAmount
All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 11,001-11,100) 11,077 $253,941
All Time International Box Office (Rank 9,801-9,900) 9,859 $1,357,828
All Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 13,701-13,800) 13,703 $1,611,769
All Time Domestic Highest Grossing Limited Release Movies (Rank 3,301-3,400) 3,313 $253,941

See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records.


Movie Details

Domestic Releases: November 5th, 2014 (Limited) by Zipporah
International Releases: March 19th, 2015 (Wide) (Spain)
August 25th, 2016 (Wide) (South Korea)
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Running Time: 183 minutes
Comparisons: vs. En kongelig affære
Create your own comparison chart…
Keywords: Museum, Set in London
Source:Based on Real Life Events
Genre:Documentary
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Factual
Production/Financing Companies: Gallery Film, Ideale Audience, Canal Plus, Planete plus, Le Fresnoy
Production Countries: France, United Kingdom, United States
Languages: English

Interviewee(s)

Nicholas Penny    Himself
Larry Keith    Himself
Luke Syson    Himself
Dawson Carr    Himself
Ashok Roy    Himself
David Jaffe    Himself
Carol Plazzotta    Herself
Jill Preston    Herself
Per Rumberg    Himself
Susan Foister    Herself

For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.

Production and Technical Credits

Frederick Wiseman    Director
Frederick Wiseman    Producer
Pierre-Olivier Bardet    Producer
Frederick Wiseman    Editor
Emmanuel Croset    Editor
John Davey    Director of Photography
Frederick Wiseman    Sound Designer
Emmanuel Croset    Sound Mixer
Nathalie Vigneres    Assistant Editor
Christina Hunt    Assistant Editor
Karen Konicek    Production Manager

Weekend Estimates: Dumb and Dumber Top

November 16th, 2014

Dumb and Dumber To poster

The box office chart is starting to take on a decidedly seasonal look, with a comedy sequel topping the chart, a smattering of Oscar hopefuls doing well in limited release, and not a single top 10 film dropping by more than 50% from last weekend. The comedy sequel, Dumb and Dumber To, will narrowly win the weekend with a shade over $38 million, per Universal’s Sunday estimate. That’s $2 million more than Big Hero 6 will post in its second weekend in release. The animated adventure will be off just 36% from last weekend. Also posting an impressive hold from a big opening weekend is Interstellar, with $29.1 million—39% below its opening frame. More...

Per Theater Chart: Everything Above All Others

November 12th, 2014

The Theory of Everything poster

There were four films in the $10,000 club, including The Theory of Everything, which led the way with an average of $41,753 in five theaters. This is high enough to make some measure of mainstream success nearly inevitable. Up next were a pair of wide releases. Big Hero 6 earned an average of $14,947, while Interstellar was right behind with an average of $13,342. The final film in the $10,000 club was National Gallery, which earned $10,049 in one theater over the weekend for a total opening of $13,165.

More...

Everything is a Limited Release

November 7th, 2014

The Theory of Everything poster
There are a ton of limited releases coming out this week, including The Theory of Everything, which many people think will be an Awards Season contender. There are also a couple of foreign-language films worth checking out, Why Don't You Play in Hell and The Way He Looks. And finally, there are a trio of documentaries, Actress, Death Metal Angola, and National Gallery. Unfortunately, there are also a lot of films earning mixed or weaker reviews, so hopefully the good films don't get squeezed out.

More...

Compare this performance with other movies…

Domestic Cumulative Box Office Records

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Nov 7, 2014 63 $10,049   1 $10,049   $13,165 1
Nov 14, 2014 57 $17,435 +73% 2 $8,718   $36,771 2
Nov 21, 2014 50 $18,391 +5% 7 $2,627   $67,028 3
Nov 28, 2014 45 $23,372 +27% 10 $2,337   $100,134 4

Daily Box Office Performance

Weekly Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Nov 7, 2014 60 $16,220   1 $16,220   $19,336 2
Nov 14, 2014 58 $29,301 +81% 3 $9,767   $48,637 3
Nov 21, 2014 53 $28,125 -4% 8 $3,516   $76,762 4
Nov 28, 2014 48 $32,059 +14% 10 $3,206   $108,821 5
Dec 5, 2014 53 $20,085 -37% 9 $2,232   $128,906 6
Dec 12, 2014 59 $13,095 -35% 13 $1,007   $142,001 7
Dec 19, 2014 54 $23,725 +81% 15 $1,582   $165,726 8
Dec 26, 2014 54 $23,618 n/c 14 $1,687   $189,344 9
Jan 2, 2015 67 $9,068 -62% 9 $1,008   $198,412 10
Jan 9, 2015 73 $4,852 -46% 10 $485   $203,264 11
Jan 16, 2015 66 $16,107 +232% 10 $1,611   $219,371 12
Jan 23, 2015 71 $14,530 -10% 11 $1,321   $233,901 13
Jan 30, 2015 87 $1,568 -89% 2 $784   $235,469 14
Feb 6, 2015 83 $5,019 +220% 3 $1,673   $240,488 15
Feb 13, 2015 86 $4,259 -15% 5 $852   $244,747 16
Feb 20, 2015 85 $4,043 -5% 4 $1,011   $248,790 17
Feb 27, 2015 99 $2,993 -26% 2 $1,497   $251,783 18
Mar 6, 2015 109 $402 -87% 2 $201   $252,185 19
Mar 13, 2015 96 $1,112 +177% 2 $556   $253,297 20
Mar 20, 2015 97 $644 -42% 1 $644   $253,941 21

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
South Korea 8/25/2016 $5,578 2 4 10 $33,799 10/7/2016
Spain 3/19/2015 $8,229 9 12 68 $81,592 11/28/2018
 
Rest of World $1,242,437
 
International Total$1,357,828 11/28/2018

International Cumulative Box Office Records


Worldwide Cumulative Box Office Records


Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue are available through our research services. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com.