Los tres entierros de Melquiades Estrada (2005)

Theatrical Performance
Domestic Box Office $5,027,684Details
International Box Office $8,426,790Details
Worldwide Box Office $13,454,474
Home Market Performance
Est. Domestic DVD Sales $6,816,592 Details
Total Est. Domestic Video Sales $6,816,592
Further financial details...

Metrics

Opening Weekend:$23,859 (0.5% of total gross)
Legs:4.78 (domestic box office/biggest weekend)
Domestic Share:37.4% (domestic box office/worldwide)
Production Budget:$15,000,000 (worldwide box office is 0.9 times production budget)
Theater counts:5 opening theaters/356 max. theaters, 5.8 weeks average run per theater
Infl. Adj. Dom. BO $8,083,776

Latest Ranking on Cumulative Box Office Lists


Movie Details

Domestic Releases: December 14th, 2005 (Limited) by Sony Pictures Classics, released as The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Video Release: June 6th, 2006 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, released as Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The
MPAA Rating: R for language, violence and sexuality
Running Time: 121 minutes
Comparisons: vs. En kongelig affære
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Keywords: Film Noir, Revisionist Western, Border Town, Border Agents, Corrupt Cops, Kidnap, Relationships Gone Wrong, Police Brutality, Non-Chronological
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Western
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Historical Fiction
Production Countries: United States

Ranking on other Records and Milestones

RecordRankAmountChart
Date
Days In
Release
Biggest 14th Weekend Limited Release 88 $343,211 Mar 17, 2006 96
Biggest 13th Weekend Limited Release 85 $429,879 Mar 10, 2006 89
Biggest 12th Weekend Limited Release 70 $651,997 Mar 3, 2006 82
Biggest 11th Weekend Limited Release 57 $1,051,957 Feb 24, 2006 75
Theater Average 8th Weekend 97 $6,242 Feb 3, 2006 54

Compare this performance with other movies…

Domestic Cumulative Box Office Records

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Dec 16, 2005 46 $23,859   5 $4,772   $31,644 1
Feb 3, 2006 38 $205,994   33 $6,242   $237,638 8
Feb 10, 2006 38 $181,636 -12% 42 $4,325   $487,358 9
Feb 17, 2006 40 $191,300 +5% 41 $4,666   $745,382 10
Feb 24, 2006 16 $1,051,957 +450% 347 $3,032   $1,880,863 11
Mar 3, 2006 22 $651,997 -38% 356 $1,831   $2,833,279 12
Mar 10, 2006 23 $429,879 -34% 284 $1,514   $3,476,699 13
Mar 17, 2006 24 $343,211 -20% 234 $1,467   $3,992,220 14
Mar 24, 2006 28 $223,491 -35% 212 $1,054   $4,349,191 15
Mar 31, 2006 30 $132,024 -41% 142 $930   $4,575,126 16
Apr 7, 2006 37 $81,534 -38% 112 $728   $4,711,247 17
Apr 14, 2006 49 $54,201 -34% 75 $723   $4,798,158 18
Apr 21, 2006 56 $27,469 -49% 49 $561   $4,872,598 19
Apr 28, 2006 49 $29,552 +8% 44 $672   $4,913,407 20
May 5, 2006 65 $12,765 -57% 28 $456   $4,943,909 21
May 12, 2006 78 $8,598 -33% 16 $537   $4,960,885 22
May 19, 2006 57 $17,568 +104% 19 $925   $4,984,165 23
May 26, 2006 55 $17,938 +2% 12 $1,495   $5,008,715 24
Jun 2, 2006 78 $5,651 -68% 17 $332   $5,023,275 25

Daily Box Office Performance

DateRankGross%YD%LWTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossDays
Feb 20, 2006 38 $39,741     41 $969   $785,123 69
May 29, 2006 69 $1,828     12 $152   $5,010,543 167

Weekly Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Dec 16, 2005 41 $23,859   5 $4,772   $31,644 2
Feb 3, 2006 39 $274,078   33 $8,305   $305,722 9
Feb 10, 2006 38 $248,360 -9% 42 $5,913   $554,082 10
Feb 17, 2006 41 $274,824 +11% 41 $6,703   $828,906 11
Feb 24, 2006 17 $1,352,376 +392% 347 $3,897   $2,181,282 12
Mar 3, 2006 22 $865,538 -36% 356 $2,431   $3,046,820 13
Mar 10, 2006 23 $602,189 -30% 284 $2,120   $3,649,009 14
Mar 17, 2006 27 $476,691 -21% 234 $2,037   $4,125,700 15
Mar 24, 2006 29 $317,402 -33% 212 $1,497   $4,443,102 16
Mar 31, 2006 29 $186,611 -41% 142 $1,314   $4,629,713 17
Apr 7, 2006 39 $114,244 -39% 112 $1,020   $4,743,957 18
Apr 14, 2006 48 $101,172 -11% 75 $1,349   $4,845,129 19
Apr 21, 2006 54 $38,726 -62% 49 $790   $4,883,855 20
Apr 28, 2006 47 $47,289 +22% 44 $1,075   $4,931,144 21
May 5, 2006 63 $21,143 -55% 28 $755   $4,952,287 22
May 12, 2006 73 $14,310 -32% 16 $894   $4,966,597 23
May 19, 2006 53 $24,180 +69% 19 $1,273   $4,990,777 24
May 26, 2006 53 $26,847 +11% 12 $2,237   $5,017,624 25
Jun 2, 2006 74 $10,060 -63% 17 $592   $5,027,684 26

International Cumulative Box Office Records


Worldwide Cumulative Box Office Records


Weekly US DVD Sales

DateRankUnits
this
Week
% ChangeTotal
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
in
Release
Jun 11, 20062556,335 56,335$985,299$985,2991
Jun 25, 20063027,044 131,258$509,779$2,381,3183

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.

Uncategorized

Tommy Lee Jones    Pete Perkins
Barry Pepper    Mike Norton

Uncategorized

Julio Cesar Cedillo    Melquiades Estrada

Uncategorized

January Jones    Lou Ann Norton
Melissa Leo   

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

Production and Technical Credits

Tommy Lee Jones    Director
Guillermo Arriaga    Screenwriter
Marco Beltrami    Composer

Evolution of the Home Market

June 17th, 2006

It was another incredibly busy week with three new films occupying the top three spots and four of them in the top five. Leading the way on the rental charts was Underworld: Evolution with $8.68 million in DVD rentals. More...

DVD Releases for June 6, 2006

June 5th, 2006

It's like the week of the Western with that genre making appearances in nearly every category, Special Edition, Box Sets, TV on DVD. But while there are certainly some that were in the running for DVD Pick of the Week, (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 2-Disc Collector's Edition, for instance), it was a limited release that is the DVD Pick of the Week. And that film is Sarah Silverman - Jesus is Magic - Buy from Amazon, but I fully admit my pro-Sarah Silverman bias has something to do with this decision. More...

How Convenient

May 31st, 2006

During a weekend where records were set at the top of the box office, it was a documentary that won the race on the Per Theatre Charts. An Inconvenient Truth set a record for highest per theatre average for a documentary with more than $280,000 in 4 theatres for an average of $70,333; also, since its debut last Wednesday the film has earned nearly $500,000. Second place when to the aforementioned chart-topping X-Men: The Last Stand, which earned a very impressive average of $27,846 in 3,690 theatres. The final film to top $10,000 was Fanaa, which just missed the top ten on the overal charts with $753,067 in 72 theatres for an average of $10,459. This is much better than expected, but as a niche market film, it is unlikely to have strong legs. More...

Per Theatre Chart cuts back on Smoking

March 28th, 2006

Thank You for Smoking was again able to lead the way on the per theatre charts despite expanding from 5 to 54 theatres. In those 54 theatres, the film earned just over $1 million for an average of $18,591. Second place went to the only other film in the $10,000 club and the overall box office leader, The Inside Man, with $10,275. More...

Another Slow Weekend on the Per Theatre Charts

March 14th, 2006

For the second weekend in a row, no film was able to top the $10,000 mark. Ask the Dust came the closest with nearly $70,000 in 7 theatres for a per theatre average of $9,826.

Other new limited releases to chart in the top ten were The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things with a studio estimate of $10,000 in 2 theatres (final box office numbers should be in by the end of the week), and Duck Season with $25,000 in 6 theatres for an average of $4,110. On the other hand, Evil struggled with $2,448 in its lone theatre. More...

Tsotsi Closest to $10,000 Mark

March 7th, 2006

There wasn't a single film with a per theatre average topping $10,000 this weekend with Tsotsi coming the closest with $65,000 in 7 theatres for an average of $9,326. More...

Family Comes First... on Per Theatre Charts

February 28th, 2006

The overall box office champ, Madea's Family Reunion, also won the weekend Per Theatre Average race with $13,688. Second place went to Tsotsi with and average of $12,721 in six theatres. More...

Fastest earns the Widest Limited Release

February 3rd, 2006

There's a huge selection of limited releases this weekend with nine film's listed below. And that's not counting the nearly half-a-dozen films expanding to take advantage of their Oscar Nods. On a side note, as you can probably tell by how late this story is, I am still sick. Good news, I'm over the worst of it. Bad news, according to the news story I saw, the symptoms should last another one to two weeks. (You know a particular strain is bad when they do a story about it on the local news.) More...

Not Quite Like Heaven

December 18th, 2005

Just Like Heaven dipped at the box office falling out of the top five with $4.53 million on 1609 screens in 30 markets over the weekend for an early total of $18.04 million internationally. Its best opening was in Belgium where it debuted in second place with $252,000 on 40 screens over the weekend and $290,000 in total. It also had debuts in Holland with $139,000 on 57 screens over the weekend and $167,000 overall, and in Greece with $116,000 on 24 and Norway with $113,000 on 26. Holdovers include Germany where the film dropped 24% to $890,000 on 273 screens for a total of $2.41 million so far, while in Spain the film fell 39% to 718,000 on 200 screens for a two-week total of $3.09 million. More...

Producing Results

December 16th, 2005

There are several films on this week's list, but only one notable release. Two other releases are getting Oscar qualifying runs this week before their regular release. Both these films will get full write-ups then. More...

Movie Website Updates for December 9 - December 15

December 15th, 2005

During the past week promotional websites for several movies were launched and some older ones added additional content. We've hit another slow patch for movie websites, which is not unexpected since the most of the new site on this list are for films that open months from now so there's hardly any content, or open during the dead zone that is January. I would say the best of the rest would be King Kong - Official Site, but it is not strong enough to win the Weekly Website Award. More...

International Details: Flightplan has Bumpy Landing

December 11th, 2005

Flightplan fell out of the top five with $5.13 million on 2,430 screens in 38 markets for a total of $94.65 million on the international scene. It did fall from second to sixth on this week's charts, but it should still reach $100 million by this time next week. Its best market of the weekend was the U.K. where it remained in second place with $2.14 million on 416 screens for a two-week total of $6.59 million. More...

Her Shoes Fall out of Fashion

December 4th, 2005

Here's this week's round-up of international box office numbers.

In Her Shoes fell out of the top five this week with $3.95 million on 2,050 screens in 23 markets for a $30.60 million international box office. The film held up amazingly well in Spain, dropping just 8% to $810,000 on 290 screens, but it wasn't as fortunate in France where it lost more than half its opening, earning $400,000 on 293 screens, falling out of the top ten in the process. It suffered a similar fate during its third weekend in the U.K. where it was down 55% to $736,000 on 268 screens, but the film already has $7.06 million there, which is better than its domestic run if you take into account the relative sizes of the two markets. More...

Whale of a Start to Award Season

November 30th, 2005

The Independent Spirit Awards announced the nominations today and The Squid and the Whale led the way with six nominations, including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and nods in three of the four acting categories. More...

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Metrics

Opening Weekend:$23,859 (0.5% of total gross)
Legs:4.78 (domestic box office/biggest weekend)
Domestic Share:37.4% (domestic box office/worldwide)
Production Budget:$15,000,000 (worldwide box office is 0.9 times production budget)
Theater counts:5 opening theaters/356 max. theaters, 5.8 weeks average run per theater
Infl. Adj. Dom. BO $8,083,776

Latest Ranking on Cumulative Box Office Lists


Movie Details

Domestic Releases: December 14th, 2005 (Limited) by Sony Pictures Classics, released as The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Video Release: June 6th, 2006 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, released as Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The
MPAA Rating: R for language, violence and sexuality
Running Time: 121 minutes
Comparisons: vs. En kongelig affære
Create your own comparison chart…
Keywords: Film Noir, Revisionist Western, Border Town, Border Agents, Corrupt Cops, Kidnap, Relationships Gone Wrong, Police Brutality, Non-Chronological
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Western
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Historical Fiction
Production Countries: United States

Ranking on other Records and Milestones

RecordRankAmountChart
Date
Days In
Release
Biggest 14th Weekend Limited Release 88 $343,211 Mar 17, 2006 96
Biggest 13th Weekend Limited Release 85 $429,879 Mar 10, 2006 89
Biggest 12th Weekend Limited Release 70 $651,997 Mar 3, 2006 82
Biggest 11th Weekend Limited Release 57 $1,051,957 Feb 24, 2006 75
Theater Average 8th Weekend 97 $6,242 Feb 3, 2006 54

Uncategorized

Tommy Lee Jones    Pete Perkins
Barry Pepper    Mike Norton

Uncategorized

Julio Cesar Cedillo    Melquiades Estrada

Uncategorized

January Jones    Lou Ann Norton
Melissa Leo   

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

Production and Technical Credits

Tommy Lee Jones    Director
Guillermo Arriaga    Screenwriter
Marco Beltrami    Composer

Evolution of the Home Market

June 17th, 2006

It was another incredibly busy week with three new films occupying the top three spots and four of them in the top five. Leading the way on the rental charts was Underworld: Evolution with $8.68 million in DVD rentals. More...

DVD Releases for June 6, 2006

June 5th, 2006

It's like the week of the Western with that genre making appearances in nearly every category, Special Edition, Box Sets, TV on DVD. But while there are certainly some that were in the running for DVD Pick of the Week, (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 2-Disc Collector's Edition, for instance), it was a limited release that is the DVD Pick of the Week. And that film is Sarah Silverman - Jesus is Magic - Buy from Amazon, but I fully admit my pro-Sarah Silverman bias has something to do with this decision. More...

How Convenient

May 31st, 2006

During a weekend where records were set at the top of the box office, it was a documentary that won the race on the Per Theatre Charts. An Inconvenient Truth set a record for highest per theatre average for a documentary with more than $280,000 in 4 theatres for an average of $70,333; also, since its debut last Wednesday the film has earned nearly $500,000. Second place when to the aforementioned chart-topping X-Men: The Last Stand, which earned a very impressive average of $27,846 in 3,690 theatres. The final film to top $10,000 was Fanaa, which just missed the top ten on the overal charts with $753,067 in 72 theatres for an average of $10,459. This is much better than expected, but as a niche market film, it is unlikely to have strong legs. More...

Per Theatre Chart cuts back on Smoking

March 28th, 2006

Thank You for Smoking was again able to lead the way on the per theatre charts despite expanding from 5 to 54 theatres. In those 54 theatres, the film earned just over $1 million for an average of $18,591. Second place went to the only other film in the $10,000 club and the overall box office leader, The Inside Man, with $10,275. More...

Another Slow Weekend on the Per Theatre Charts

March 14th, 2006

For the second weekend in a row, no film was able to top the $10,000 mark. Ask the Dust came the closest with nearly $70,000 in 7 theatres for a per theatre average of $9,826.

Other new limited releases to chart in the top ten were The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things with a studio estimate of $10,000 in 2 theatres (final box office numbers should be in by the end of the week), and Duck Season with $25,000 in 6 theatres for an average of $4,110. On the other hand, Evil struggled with $2,448 in its lone theatre. More...

Tsotsi Closest to $10,000 Mark

March 7th, 2006

There wasn't a single film with a per theatre average topping $10,000 this weekend with Tsotsi coming the closest with $65,000 in 7 theatres for an average of $9,326. More...

Family Comes First... on Per Theatre Charts

February 28th, 2006

The overall box office champ, Madea's Family Reunion, also won the weekend Per Theatre Average race with $13,688. Second place went to Tsotsi with and average of $12,721 in six theatres. More...

Fastest earns the Widest Limited Release

February 3rd, 2006

There's a huge selection of limited releases this weekend with nine film's listed below. And that's not counting the nearly half-a-dozen films expanding to take advantage of their Oscar Nods. On a side note, as you can probably tell by how late this story is, I am still sick. Good news, I'm over the worst of it. Bad news, according to the news story I saw, the symptoms should last another one to two weeks. (You know a particular strain is bad when they do a story about it on the local news.) More...

Not Quite Like Heaven

December 18th, 2005

Just Like Heaven dipped at the box office falling out of the top five with $4.53 million on 1609 screens in 30 markets over the weekend for an early total of $18.04 million internationally. Its best opening was in Belgium where it debuted in second place with $252,000 on 40 screens over the weekend and $290,000 in total. It also had debuts in Holland with $139,000 on 57 screens over the weekend and $167,000 overall, and in Greece with $116,000 on 24 and Norway with $113,000 on 26. Holdovers include Germany where the film dropped 24% to $890,000 on 273 screens for a total of $2.41 million so far, while in Spain the film fell 39% to 718,000 on 200 screens for a two-week total of $3.09 million. More...

Producing Results

December 16th, 2005

There are several films on this week's list, but only one notable release. Two other releases are getting Oscar qualifying runs this week before their regular release. Both these films will get full write-ups then. More...

Movie Website Updates for December 9 - December 15

December 15th, 2005

During the past week promotional websites for several movies were launched and some older ones added additional content. We've hit another slow patch for movie websites, which is not unexpected since the most of the new site on this list are for films that open months from now so there's hardly any content, or open during the dead zone that is January. I would say the best of the rest would be King Kong - Official Site, but it is not strong enough to win the Weekly Website Award. More...

International Details: Flightplan has Bumpy Landing

December 11th, 2005

Flightplan fell out of the top five with $5.13 million on 2,430 screens in 38 markets for a total of $94.65 million on the international scene. It did fall from second to sixth on this week's charts, but it should still reach $100 million by this time next week. Its best market of the weekend was the U.K. where it remained in second place with $2.14 million on 416 screens for a two-week total of $6.59 million. More...

Her Shoes Fall out of Fashion

December 4th, 2005

Here's this week's round-up of international box office numbers.

In Her Shoes fell out of the top five this week with $3.95 million on 2,050 screens in 23 markets for a $30.60 million international box office. The film held up amazingly well in Spain, dropping just 8% to $810,000 on 290 screens, but it wasn't as fortunate in France where it lost more than half its opening, earning $400,000 on 293 screens, falling out of the top ten in the process. It suffered a similar fate during its third weekend in the U.K. where it was down 55% to $736,000 on 268 screens, but the film already has $7.06 million there, which is better than its domestic run if you take into account the relative sizes of the two markets. More...

Whale of a Start to Award Season

November 30th, 2005

The Independent Spirit Awards announced the nominations today and The Squid and the Whale led the way with six nominations, including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and nods in three of the four acting categories. More...

Compare this performance with other movies…

Domestic Cumulative Box Office Records

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Dec 16, 2005 46 $23,859   5 $4,772   $31,644 1
Feb 3, 2006 38 $205,994   33 $6,242   $237,638 8
Feb 10, 2006 38 $181,636 -12% 42 $4,325   $487,358 9
Feb 17, 2006 40 $191,300 +5% 41 $4,666   $745,382 10
Feb 24, 2006 16 $1,051,957 +450% 347 $3,032   $1,880,863 11
Mar 3, 2006 22 $651,997 -38% 356 $1,831   $2,833,279 12
Mar 10, 2006 23 $429,879 -34% 284 $1,514   $3,476,699 13
Mar 17, 2006 24 $343,211 -20% 234 $1,467   $3,992,220 14
Mar 24, 2006 28 $223,491 -35% 212 $1,054   $4,349,191 15
Mar 31, 2006 30 $132,024 -41% 142 $930   $4,575,126 16
Apr 7, 2006 37 $81,534 -38% 112 $728   $4,711,247 17
Apr 14, 2006 49 $54,201 -34% 75 $723   $4,798,158 18
Apr 21, 2006 56 $27,469 -49% 49 $561   $4,872,598 19
Apr 28, 2006 49 $29,552 +8% 44 $672   $4,913,407 20
May 5, 2006 65 $12,765 -57% 28 $456   $4,943,909 21
May 12, 2006 78 $8,598 -33% 16 $537   $4,960,885 22
May 19, 2006 57 $17,568 +104% 19 $925   $4,984,165 23
May 26, 2006 55 $17,938 +2% 12 $1,495   $5,008,715 24
Jun 2, 2006 78 $5,651 -68% 17 $332   $5,023,275 25

Daily Box Office Performance

DateRankGross%YD%LWTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossDays
Feb 20, 2006 38 $39,741     41 $969   $785,123 69
May 29, 2006 69 $1,828     12 $152   $5,010,543 167

Weekly Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossWeek
Dec 16, 2005 41 $23,859   5 $4,772   $31,644 2
Feb 3, 2006 39 $274,078   33 $8,305   $305,722 9
Feb 10, 2006 38 $248,360 -9% 42 $5,913   $554,082 10
Feb 17, 2006 41 $274,824 +11% 41 $6,703   $828,906 11
Feb 24, 2006 17 $1,352,376 +392% 347 $3,897   $2,181,282 12
Mar 3, 2006 22 $865,538 -36% 356 $2,431   $3,046,820 13
Mar 10, 2006 23 $602,189 -30% 284 $2,120   $3,649,009 14
Mar 17, 2006 27 $476,691 -21% 234 $2,037   $4,125,700 15
Mar 24, 2006 29 $317,402 -33% 212 $1,497   $4,443,102 16
Mar 31, 2006 29 $186,611 -41% 142 $1,314   $4,629,713 17
Apr 7, 2006 39 $114,244 -39% 112 $1,020   $4,743,957 18
Apr 14, 2006 48 $101,172 -11% 75 $1,349   $4,845,129 19
Apr 21, 2006 54 $38,726 -62% 49 $790   $4,883,855 20
Apr 28, 2006 47 $47,289 +22% 44 $1,075   $4,931,144 21
May 5, 2006 63 $21,143 -55% 28 $755   $4,952,287 22
May 12, 2006 73 $14,310 -32% 16 $894   $4,966,597 23
May 19, 2006 53 $24,180 +69% 19 $1,273   $4,990,777 24
May 26, 2006 53 $26,847 +11% 12 $2,237   $5,017,624 25
Jun 2, 2006 74 $10,060 -63% 17 $592   $5,027,684 26

International Cumulative Box Office Records


Worldwide Cumulative Box Office Records


Weekly US DVD Sales

DateRankUnits
this
Week
% ChangeTotal
Units
Spending
this
Week
Total
Spending
Weeks
in
Release
Jun 11, 20062556,335 56,335$985,299$985,2991
Jun 25, 20063027,044 131,258$509,779$2,381,3183

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.