Theater Counts
September 1, 2005
Labor Day weekend is traditionally a backwater for the movie industry.
Studios generally try to avoid releasing strong movies for the last holiday weekend of the Summer, since September is the slowest box office month of the year.
So it's perhaps not surprising to see only one significant wide release.
But Transporter 2 could be a rare exception to the "don't release for Labor Day" rule.
It is at least getting a very wide release, starting in 3,303 theaters.
That makes it the most widely distributed movie in the US.
Rank Movie Theaters Change Weeks in
ReleaseDistributor
1 Transporter 2, The 3,303 New 1 Fox
2 Red-Eye 3,134 +43 3 Dreamworks
3 Brothers Grimm, The 3,098 +11 2 Miramax
4 40 Year-old Virgin, The 2,915 +47 3 Universal
5 March of the Penguins 2,506 +112 11 Warner Independent
6 Four Brothers 2,435 -214 4 Paramount
7 Skeleton Key, The 2,430 -354 4 Universal
8 Wedding Crashers, The 2,416 -321 8 New Line
9 Cave, The 2,195 n/c 2 Sony
10 Dukes of Hazzard, The 2,011 -880 5 Warner Bros.
14 Constant Gardener, The 1,346 New 1 Focus
15 Underclassman 1,132 New 1 Miramax
17 Sound of Thunder, A 816 New 1 Warner Bros.
20 Unfinished Life, An 741 New 1 Miramax (sneaks, Sat. and Sun.)
46 Margaret Cho: Assassin 8 New 1 Regent
47 Games of Love and Chance 1 New 1 New Yorker
48 Clan, Le 1 New 1 TLA Releasing
49 William Eggleston in the Real World 1 New 1 Palm/Manga
Estimated Theater Counts for Next Week's Openers
Movie Theaters Distributor
Exorcism of Emily Rose 2,900 Sony
Man, The 1,800 New Line
Unfinished Life, An 400 Miramax
Curandero 2 Dimension
Answering the Call Not announced Illuminare Ent.
Cote d'Azur Not announced Strand
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