Thanksgiving Weekend Actuals

[kitik]

some of the early numbers are being reported

 

 

Wide (1000+)

 

#	Title	weekend		Locations		Avg.	Total	Wks.	Dist.
1	Interstellar	$15,743,005	3%	3,066	-349	$5,135	$147,035,482	4	Paramount
2	Dumb and Dumber To	$8,358,620	-41%	3,130	-58	$2,670	$72,237,610	3	Universal

Limited (100 — 999)

 

#	Title	weekend		Locations		Avg.	Total	Wks.	Dist.
1	The Theory of Everything	$5,011,146	231%	802	662	$6,248	$9,530,209	4	Focus
2	Nightcrawler	$845,362	-30%	570	-532	$1,483	$28,677,308	5	Open Road
3	Ouija	$387,790	-60%	456	-885	$850	$50,327,385	6	Universal
4	Rosewater	$346,043	-39%	216	-155	$1,602	$2,632,920	3	Open Road
5	Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas	$253,384	-61%	277	-114	$915	$2,465,354	3	IDP / Samuel Goldwyn
6	Citizenfour	$190,605	9%	103	17	$1,851	$1,503,864	6	RADiUS-TWC

Platform (1 — 99)

 

#	Title	weekend		Locations		Avg.	Total	Wks.	Dist.
1	The Imitation Game	$479,352	--	4	--	$119,838	$479,352	1	Weinstein Company
2	The Homesman	$210,332	51%	50	15	$4,207	$484,804	3	Roadside Attractions

 

 

[kitik]

Horrible Bosses 2

$15,457,418

--

3,375

--

$4,580

$22,771,243

1

Warner Bros. / New Line

 

 

St. Vincent

$1,704,700

-24%

1,251

-456

$1,363

$39,260,086

8

Weinstein Company

[kitik]

All fairly close to the estimates so far. Not even Horrible Bosses 2 was overestimated by all that much.

[TalismanRing]

All fairly close to the estimates so far. Not even Horrible Bosses 2 was overestimated by all that much.

 

My guess is Penguins with a 40% Sun drop will be overestimated. (Disney for BH6 used a 47%)

[kitik]

 

Big Hero 6

$18,816,798

-6%

3,365

-285

$5,592

$167,219,558

4

Disney

  

 

[kitik]

Looks like Lionsgate is sticking to their 4pm release schedule, trying to pretend like last week's late numbers were normal.

[sfran43]

 

 

Big Hero 6 $18,816,798 -6% 3,365 -285 $5,592 $167,219,558 4 Disney

  

 

 

It did better than it's estimate #.

[kitik]

Okay, it's 4 o'clock, Penguins and Mockingjay can release their numbers.

[miketheavenger]

I'm still surprised how good Ouija is holding. For a horror movie with supposedly bad WOM its legs have been quite solid.

[kitik]

Penguins of Madagascar

$25,447,444

--

3,764

--

$6,761

$35,438,847

[kitik]

3-day weekends of 25 and 15 for Penguins and HB2.

 

Ouch.

[kitik]

up a tiny bit from estimates

 

 

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 $56,972,599

[narniadis]

Not bad at all

[Claire of Themyscira]

up a tiny bit from estimates

 

 

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 $56,972,599

I've been snatched!

 

 

Rise, MJ1. RISE.

Edited December 1, 2014 by Claire Nolan Holt

[kitik]

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	1	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	LGF	$56,972,599	-53.3%	4,151	-	$13,725	$225,680,904	$125	2
2	N	Penguins of Madagascar	Fox	$25,447,444	-	3,764	-	$6,761	$35,438,847	$132	1
3	2	Big Hero 6	BV	$18,816,798	-6.5%	3,365	-285	$5,592	$167,219,558	$165	4
4	3	Interstellar	Par.	$15,743,005	+2.6%	3,066	-349	$5,135	$147,035,482	$165	4
5	N	Horrible Bosses 2	WB	$15,457,418	-	3,375	-	$4,580	$22,771,243	$42	1
6	4	Dumb and Dumber To	Uni.	$8,358,620	-40.6%	3,130	-58	$2,670	$72,237,610	-	3
7	10	The Theory of Everything	Focus	$5,011,146	+231.5%	802	+662	$6,248	$9,530,209	-	4
8	5	Gone Girl	Fox	$2,465,434	-13.1%	1,174	-435	$2,100	$160,745,345	$61	9
9	9	Birdman	FoxS	$1,874,369	+1.1%	710	-152	$2,640	$17,220,426	$18	7
10	7	St. Vincent	Wein.	$1,704,700	-24.2%	1,256	-451	$1,357	$39,260,086	-	8
11	6	Beyond the Lights	Rela.	$1,570,656	-40.4%	1,187	-579	$1,323	$12,731,390	$7	3
12	8	Fury (2014)	Sony	$1,545,038	-20.5%	1,059	-661	$1,459	$81,896,080	$68	7
13	20	Foxcatcher	SPC	$1,032,000	+117.7%	72	+48	$14,333	$2,126,000	-	3
14	11	Nightcrawler	ORF	$845,362	-30.3%	570	-532	$1,483	$28,677,308	$8.5	5
15	19	Guardians of the Galaxy	BV	$561,937	+14.3%	285	-39	$1,972	$331,855,381	$170	18
16	13	John Wick	LG/S	$560,885	-36.0%	488	-484	$1,149	$41,605,155	$20	6
17	18	Whiplash	SPC	$496,000	-6.4%	179	-152	$2,771	$3,965,000	$3.3	8
18	23	The Equalizer	Sony	$482,560	+72.9%	436	+167	$1,107	$100,011,780	$55	10
19	N	The Imitation Game	Wein.	$479,352	-	4	-	$119,838	$479,352	-	1
20	17	The Judge	WB	$439,666	-20.2%	415	-90	$1,059	$46,054,959	$50	8
-	15	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	BV	$399,235	-34.8%	376	-378	$1,062	$64,134,071	$28	8
-	12	Ouija	Uni.	$387,790	-60.4%	455	-886	$852	$50,327,385	$5	6
-	16	Rosewater	ORF	$346,043	-39.0%	216	-155	$1,602	$2,632,920	-	3
-	22	The Maze Runner	Fox	$337,033	+10.8%	275	-95	$1,226	$101,043,336	$34	11
-	28	The Boxtrolls	Focus	$268,595	+96.3%	266	+92	$1,010	$49,899,676	$60	10
-	14	Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas	Gold.	$253,384	-61.1%	277	-113	$915	$2,465,354	-	3
-	21	The Book of Life (2014)	Fox	$243,497	-35.9%	279	-159	$873	$48,366,944	$50	7
-	27	The Homesman	Saban	$214,000	+53.6%	50	+15	$4,280	$484,000	-	3
-	26	Citizenfour	RTWC	$190,605	+8.8%	103	+17	$1,851	$1,503,864	-	6
-	24	The Best of Me	Rela.	$101,358	-62.8%	165	-267	$614	$26,433,161	$26	7
-	29	Annabelle	WB (NL)	$89,082	-30.6%	171	-54	$521	$84,146,551	$6.5	9

[John Marston]

Equalizer passed 100m

[kitik]

And here's where Imitation Game ranks compared to other limited openers with super high theater averages.

 

 

If you subtract out the special-release cartoons and other oddballs like Red State, the actual list of limited release theater averages should look like:

 

1. Grand Budapest Hotel

2. The Master

3. Moonrise Kingdon

4. Dreamgirls

5. American Hustle

6. The Imitation Game

7. Brokeback Mountain

8. Birdman

 

Though I'll admit it's abitrary and debatable.

 

 

 

 

Rank	Title (click to view)	Studio	Average	Theaters	Opening*	Total Gross^	Date**
1	The Lion King	BV	$793,377	2	$1,586,753	$312,855,561	6/17/94
2	Pocahontas	BV	$448,285	6	$2,689,714	$141,579,773	6/16/95
3	The Princess and the Frog	BV	$393,095	2	$786,190	$104,400,899	11/27/09
4	Toy Story 2	BV	$300,163	1	$300,163	$245,852,179	11/19/99
5	A Bug's Life	BV	$291,121	1	$291,121	$162,798,565	11/20/98
6	Hercules	BV	$249,567	1	$249,567	$99,112,101	6/13/97
7	Frozen	BV	$243,390	1	$243,390	$400,738,009	11/22/13
8	Red State	SMod	$204,230	1	$204,230	$1,104,682	3/04/11
9	The Grand Budapest Hotel	FoxS	$202,792	4	$811,166	$59,076,019	3/07/14
10	Atlantis: The Lost Empire	BV	$164,505	2	$329,011	$84,056,472	6/08/01
11	The Master	Wein.	$147,262	5	$736,311	$16,377,274	9/14/12
12	Brother Bear	BV	$145,970	2	$291,940	$85,336,277	10/24/03
13	Moonrise Kingdom	Focus	$130,749	4	$522,996	$45,512,466	5/25/12
14	Dreamgirls	P/DW	$126,316	3	$378,950	$103,365,956	12/15/06
15	American Hustle	Sony	$123,409	6	$740,455	$150,117,807	12/13/13
16	Anastasia	Fox	$120,541	1	$120,541	$58,406,347	11/14/97
17	The Imitation Game	Wein.	$119,838	4	$479,352	$479,352	11/28/14
18	Brokeback Mountain	Focus	$109,485	5	$547,425	$83,043,761	12/09/05
19	Birdman	FoxS	$106,099	4	$424,397	$17,220,426	10/17/14
20	Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire	LGF	$104,025	18	$1,872,458	$47,566,524	11/06/09
21	Blue Jasmine	SPC	$102,011	6	$612,064	$33,405,481	7/26/13
22	Inside Llewyn Davis	CBS	$101,353	4	$405,411	$13,235,319	12/06/13
23	Midnight in Paris	SPC	$99,834	6	$599,003	$56,817,045	5/20/11
24	Aladdin	BV	$98,332	2	$196,664	$217,350,219	11/13/92
25	Evita	BV	$97,542	2	$195,085	$50,047,179	12/27/96
26	Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas	BV	$95,616	2	$191,232	$50,003,043	10/15/93
27	There Will Be Blood	ParV	$95,370	2	$190,739	$40,222,514	12/28/07
28	The Tree of Life	FoxS	$93,230	4	$372,920	$13,303,319	5/27/11
29	The King's Speech	Wein.	$88,863	4	$355,450	$135,453,143	11/26/10
30	Spring Breakers	A24	$87,667	3	$263,002	$14,124,284	3/15/13
31	Lincoln	BV	$85,846	11	$944,308	$182,207,973	11/09/12
32	Memoirs of a Geisha	Sony	$85,313	8	$682,504	$57,490,508	12/09/05
33	Moulin Rouge!	Fox	$83,770	2	$167,540	$57,386,607	5/18/01
34	Zero Dark Thirty	Sony	$83,430	5	$417,150	$95,720,716	12/21/12

 

[forg]

Good to see Equalizer cross 100M

 

I wonder if 60M is achievable for St Vincent, really good performance for this

[TalismanRing]

Good to see Equalizer cross 100M

 

I wonder if 60M is achievable for St Vincent, really good performance for this

 

Unless St. Vincent gets award buzz I don't see it holding on until $50m.  It will strat losing theaters fast.

[ecstasy]

Kitik I'm confused. You're tracking Imitation Game but in another thread you said Theory of Everything didn't fit your criteria for tracking. What's the difference? They are both limited releases.