Wednesday's # DADT 0.39M, MJ1 2.33M, TIG 31,567, BH6 0.47M, TOE 0.35M, INT 0.85M

[kitik]

Nightcrawler with a nice little re-expansion this weekend, go see it if you haven't

 

 

 

December 5
Updated Thursday afternoons

 

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Rank LW Title Distributor Theater Count Change % Change Est. Screens Change Est. Shows Change Week # > NEW RELEASES 14 - The Pyramid Fox 589 - - - - - - 1 30 - The One I Wrote For You Abramorama 49 - - - - - - 1 36 65 Wild (2014) Fox Searchlight 21 - - - - - - 1 44 - Comet IFC 2 - - - - - - 1 45 - The Passionate Thief (2014 re-release) Rialto 1 - - - - - - 1 > EXPANDING 2 2 Penguins of Madagascar Fox 3,775 +11 +0.3% - - - - 2 3 3 Horrible Bosses 2 Warner Bros. 3,400 +25 +0.7% - - - - 2 7 7 St. Vincent Weinstein Company 1,432 +176 +14.0% - - - - 9 8 13 Nightcrawler Open Road Films 1,257 +687 +120.5% - - - - 6 9 9 Gone Girl Fox 1,205 +31 +2.6% - - - - 10 12 11 The Theory of Everything Focus Features 826 +24 +3.0% - - - - 5 13 12 Birdman Fox Searchlight 738 +28 +3.9% - - - - 8 24 37 The Homesman Saban Films 153 +103 +206.0% - - - - 4 28 31 Citizenfour Radius-TWC 104 +1 +1.0% - - - - 7 29 63 Hector And The Search For Happiness Relativity 57 +52 +1,040.0% - - - - 12 33 48 The Good Lie Warner Bros. 29 +8 +38.1% - - - - 10 34 57 Kill the Messenger Focus Features 27 +19 +237.5% - - - - 9 35 69 The Babadook IFC 22 +19 +633.3% - - - - 2 37 53 Boyhood IFC 18 +8 +80.0% - - - - 22 39 67 The Imitation Game Weinstein Company 8 +4 +100.0% - - - - 2 41 68 Keep On Keepin' On Radius-TWC 6 +2 +50.0% - - - - 12 42 78 Before I Disappear IFC 3 +2 +200.0% - - - - 2 43 73 Hiroshima Mon Amour (2014 re-release) Rialto 3 +1 +50.0% - - - - 8 > NO CHANGE 20 22 The Maze Runner Fox 275 - - - - - - 12 32 40 Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (IMAX) Warner Bros. 40 - - - - - - 36 > DECLINING 1 1 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 Lionsgate 4,054 -97 -2.3% - - - - 3 4 4 Big Hero 6 Buena Vista 3,168 -197 -5.9% - - - - 5 5 5 Dumb and Dumber To Universal 3,086 -44 -1.4% - - - - 4 6 6 Interstellar Paramount 3,028 -38 -1.2% - - - - 5 10 10 Fury (2014) Sony / Columbia 896 -163 -15.4% - - - - 8 11 8 Beyond the Lights Relativity 827 -360 -30.3% - - - - 4 15 14 John Wick Lionsgate/Summit 407 -81 -16.6% - - - - 7 16 17 The Judge Warner Bros. 398 -17 -4.1% - - - - 9 17 15 Ouija Universal 352 -103 -22.6% - - - - 7 18 18 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Buena Vista 329 -47 -12.5% - - - - 9 19 16 The Equalizer Sony / Columbia 326 -110 -25.2% - - - - 11 21 20 The Book of Life (2014) Fox 245 -34 -12.2% - - - - 8 22 23 The Boxtrolls Focus Features 244 -22 -8.3% - - - - 11 23 25 Rosewater Open Road Films 204 -12 -5.6% - - - - 4

 

[TalismanRing]

Is that the lowest theater total for a top opener in say the last 20 years?  Does BOM have a list for that?

[grim22]

I think this weekend is more of a self fulfilling prophecy as opposed to anything else. This weekend sucks because studios don't release big movies this weekend, studios don't release big movies this weekend because this weekend sucks. If WB had released Hobbit this weekend, it would probably do just as good or bad as it would in 2 weeks' time, same thing if Disney releases SW7 on this weekend next year.

[TLK]

I think this weekend is more of a self fulfilling prophecy as opposed to anything else. This weekend sucks because studios don't release big movies this weekend, studios don't release big movies this weekend because this weekend sucks. If WB had released Hobbit this weekend, it would probably do just as good or bad as it would in 2 weeks' time, same thing if Disney releases SW7 on this weekend next year.

 

The two week rule is why studios don't release movies this weekend. You get upto a dozen new releases and Oscar movie expansions between December 18th and 25th so basically any movie released this weekend will lose a lot of theaters in two weeks time unless it becomes a big hit. It is just too risky for studios to release a big budget movie when you are guaranteed to lose a shitload of theaters in 14-21 days and not have good legs.

[K1stpierre]

MJ1 OW multiple looks to be gaining some ground to CF but it's still behind.  

After 13 Days

CF 1.94   MJ1  1.918

Slowly closer......

[Wrath]

Another terrible number for Penguins.....you people believing this will make anything north of 80 domestic are insane.

 

I had real hopes for Penguins, and the potential for a break-out was there.  However, having seen it I can say that it just isn't very good and the upcoming slate of kids' movies is just brutal.  

[The Panda]

The two week rule is why studios don't release movies this weekend. You get upto a dozen new releases and Oscar movie expansions between December 18th and 25th so basically any movie released this weekend will lose a lot of theaters in two weeks time unless it becomes a big hit. It is just too risky for studios to release a big budget movie when you are guaranteed to lose a shitload of theaters in 14-21 days and not have good legs.

 

That makes a lot of sense actually.

[ecstasy]

The two week rule is why studios don't release movies this weekend. You get upto a dozen new releases and Oscar movie expansions between December 18th and 25th so basically any movie released this weekend will lose a lot of theaters in two weeks time unless it becomes a big hit. It is just too risky for studios to release a big budget movie when you are guaranteed to lose a shitload of theaters in 14-21 days and not have good legs.

 

Interesting. Thanks for the info.