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box office: week of November 6

indiewire's weekly box office recap:

Title Distributor Locations Gross Per Location Overall Gross
A Late QuartetEntertainment One Films9$75,279$8,364$75,279
The SessionsFox Searchlight69$468,312$6,787$943,230
This Must Be The PlaceThe Weinstein Company2$7,754$3,877$7,754
Hating BreitbartRocky Mountain Pictures8$25,826$3,228$81,432
The Other SonCohen Media Group50$153,309$3,066$330,423
Holy MotorsIndomina Media5$15,234$3,047$83,665
The FlatIFC Films24$72,224$3,009$143,192
The Big PictureMPI Media7$20,687$2,955$96,783
The ThievesWell Go USA, Inc.18$43,968$2,443$628,261
Escape FireRoadside Attractions4$9,688$2,422$67,717
The Loneliest PlanetIFC Films11$25,964$2,360$44,392
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To TravelIDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films24$54,523$2,272$744,522
Simon and the OaksThe Film Arcade13$28,867$2,221$119,097
Brooklyn CastleProducers Distribution Agency13$27,068$2,082$87,199
District Of CorruptionRocky Mountain Pictures3$6,220$2,073$31,954
The Perks of Being a WallflowerLionsgate622$1,241,870$1,997$13,059,220
SmashedSony Pictures Classics21$34,097$1,624$198,690
17 GirlsStrand Releasing1$1,510$1,510$14,080
North Sea TexasStrand Releasing3$4,487$1,496$4,487
Gregory Crewdson: Brief EncountersZeitgeist1$1,492$1,492$1,492
The ImposterIndomina Media10$14,584$1,458$857,661
Searching For Sugar ManSony Pictures Classics105$149,114$1,420$2,410,566
Orchestra Of ExilesFirst Run5$6,985$1,397$13,704
Somewhere BetweenIndependent6$8,379$1,397$120,078
The DetailsRadius-TWC14$18,528$1,323$18,528
The MasterThe Weinstein Company138$180,599$1,309$15,511,394
My Worst NightmareStrand Releasing3$3,695$1,232$5,478
The House I Live InAbramorama Entertainment11$13,546$1,231$132,348
Paperboy, TheMillennium Entertainment42$48,416$1,153$628,198
Inch'AllahEntertainment One Films16$18,050$1,128$416,009
The IntouchablesThe Weinstein Company28$31,273$1,117$12,937,504
SamsaraOscilloscope Pictures62$68,267$1,101$2,303,520
Tai Chi ZeroVariance Films13$13,881$1,068$190,407
Keep The Lights OnMusic Box Films5$5,236$1,047$226,935
Well-Digger's DaughterKino Lorber5$5,205$1,041$351,923
ArbitrageRoadside Attractions116$119,225$1,028$7,533,493
The Other Dream TeamThe Film Arcade5$4,781$956$128,977
The Queen of VersaillesMagnolia Pictures6$5,252$875$2,390,059
The BayRoadside Attractions23$19,926$866$19,926
Sleepwalk With MeIFC Films18$14,297$794$2,244,439
The Eye of the StormSycamore Entertainment Group1$664$664$83,297
Robot & FrankIDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films14$9,066$648$3,269,939
Beasts Of The Southern WildFox Searchlight15$9,510$634$11,225,465
War of the ButtonsThe Weinstein Company6$3,736$623$45,602
Liberal ArtsIFC Films17$9,256$544$298,701
All TogetherKino Lorber3$1,478$493$30,626
Wuthering HeightsOscilloscope Pictures11$5,111$465$70,435
V/H/S (VHS)Magnolia Pictures8$3,699$462$97,348
Killer JoeLD Entertainment7$3,179$454$2,000,727
Photographic MemoryFirst Run1$412$412$6,301
Deep Dark CanyonIndependent1$396$396$4,797
RevisionariesKino Lorber3$1,139$380$16,536
Nobody WalksMagnolia Pictures4$1,510$378$20,067
This Is Not A FilmIndependent1$357$357$74,850
Meet The FokkensKino Lorber1$349$349$28,632
Trade Of InnocentsMonterey Media3$1,039$346$15,059
2 Days In New YorkMagnolia Pictures4$1,361$340$629,359
How To Survive A PlagueIFC Films2$677$339$121,201
To Rome With LoveSony Pictures Classics5$1,688$338$16,682,329
Chicken With PlumsSony Pictures Classics18$4,032$224$233,225
ChakravyuhEros Entertainment79$14,783$187$145,499
Jack And DianeMagnolia Pictures2$294$147$294
AlpsKino Lorber3$314$105$13,841
Celeste And Jesse ForeverSony Pictures Classics14$1,157$83$3,089,507
HeadshotKino Lorber1$28$28$1,166

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    Weekend Box Office Top Ten: 'Oz' is Magic, 'Call' Marks Berry Comeback, 'Wonderstone' Warners' 5th Loser

    With “Oz: The Great and Powerful” holding well and “The Call” opening better than expected, this weekend showed more 2013 weakness. Total gross for the top 10 films was around $93 million, up from last year’s $88, but down from last weekend’s $124 million. Although several lower budget films are fi...

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    Specialty Box Office: 'Spring Breakers' Soars In Limited Debut; Has Already Outgrossed All of Harmony Korine's Other Movies

    It was a very good weekend for upstart distributor A24 Films. After a disappointing box office performance from their debut release "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III," A24 released their second and third films this Friday and the numbers ranged from extraordinary ("Spring Breakers") to ...

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    Friday Box Office: 'Spring Breakers' Top Limited Opening of Year, 'Wonderstone' Underwhelms

    A24’s SXSW hit “Spring Breakers” from veteran indie Harmony Korine opened in three New York/Los Angeles theaters to a stunning total of $95,000, by far the biggest limited opening of the year, and likely to approach a $100,000 per screen average for the weekend. To give some indication of what a sho...

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    Better Mus' Come Debut March 15 in New York and Los Angeles

    Beginning today, March 15, the African American Film Festival Releasing Movement will release their fifth film - Storm Saulter's award winning Better Mus' Come - in New York and Los Angeles.

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    Spain Gets 'Excited' About Almodovar's Latest Before U.S. Release (TRAILER)

    Pedro Almodovar’s new comedy “I’m So Excited” (“Los Amantes Pasajeros”) opened to the highest take of any his films in his native Spain last weekend in its initial release. The film, to be released in the U.S. on June 27 by his usual American distributor Sony Pictures Classics, grossed about $2.6 m...

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    Arthouse Audit: 'Emperor,' 'The We and the I,' 'Beyond the Hills' Rely on Good Word To Grow Audiences

    Specialized distributors continue to try to break beyond the usual review-driven New York/Los Angeles limited openings to find less conventional ways to release films. Among this week’s openings, Mumblecore indie “Somebody Out There Likes Me," starring Second City's own Nick Offerman, premiered to s...

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    Weekend Box Office Top Ten: 'Oz: The Great & Powerful' Boosts Overall Box Office, 'Dead Man Down' Is DOA

    Led by a strong $80-million opening for “Oz: The Great and Powerful,” the total gross for the weekend was up from both the previous week and the previous year, something that has rarely happened this year so far. The uptick wasn’t enough to reverse the trend so far -- $125 million for the top 10 thi...

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    Specialty Box Office: 'Somebody Up There' Well Liked Indeed With $38,000 Exclusive Debut

    Exactly year after debuted at SXSW, Bob Byington's "Somebody Up There Likes Me" scored a huge exclusive debut at Chicago's Music Box Theater. The film -- which stars and was co-produced by Chicago native Nick Offerman -- grossed an estimated $38,495. The 700 seat theater featured multiple sold out s...

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    'Oz' Brings Boffo Box Office, Rest of Field Is Anemic

    Disney's "Oz: The Great and Powerful" had a strong opening yesterday, grossing $24 million for the best opening of the year so far--heading toward a likely $75-million-plus total-- and greatly outpacing last week's "Jack the Giant Slayer," which also cost $200 million. But despite the relief both Di...

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    'Oz' Brings Riches, from Needed Boffo Box Office to Kunis Viral Breakout to Yet Another Sequel (VIDEO)

    This weekend marks the watershed moment in 2013 when the box office will finally lift some boats around the nation's multiplexes. That's thanks to Disney's "Oz: the Great and Powerful," which is expected to deliver some $80 million, which means that other struggling movies in theaters such as "Jack ...

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    Why 'Jack the Giant Slayer' Flopped

    The dwarfish $28 million domestic that Warner Bros.' “Jack the Giant Slayer” grossed over the weekend was what? A surprise? That the wheel-spinning Bryan Singer would make a soulless 3-D disaster film out of a timeless children’s story was hardly a shock. But the film’s anemic showing was indicativ...

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    Arthouse Audit: 'Stoker' Shows Initial Strength in Multi-City Opening

    After months of films with mostly older-audience appeal playing off during the awards circus, Fox Searchlight's "Stoker," a stylish thriller from a noted Asian cult director making his English-language debut, boasted the best limited opening of any 2013 release so far. Although not performing at the...

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    Specialty Box Office: 'Stoker' Scores Best Debut; 'Quartet' Hits $11 Million

    After two months of generally slow weekends for 2013 releases (most of the top performers were holdovers from 2012), this weekend kicked off a month of anticipated new specialty releases likely to change the tide. 

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    Weekend Box Office Top Ten: March Comes In Like a Lamb, 'Giant Slayer' Disappoints, 'Phantom' Disappears

    Yet another down weekend: the top ten grossed 37% less than 2012's total, continuing a multi-week trend that is becoming a major problem. Grosses did climb a bit from last week, but the new films -- led by $200 million would-be tentpole "Jack the Giant Slayer" -- had much greater potential. None loo...

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    Arthouse Audit: Sony Pictures Classics Rolls Out Oscar Bounty

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