box office: week of October 30
indiewire's weekly box office recap:
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Specialty Box Office: 'Loneliest Planet' Leads Newcomers; 'Sessions' Holds Nicely
October 28, 2012 1:02 PMJulia Loktev's Gotham Award nominated "The Loneliest Planet" led a generally uneventful weekend at the indie box office, topping fellow newcomers "The Other Son" and "District of Corruption."... More »
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Legends (and Failures) of the Fall: Indie Box Office Winners and Losers
October 29, 2012 1:10 PMIn the movie world, the "holiday season" begins in November, when Hollywood tentpoles hoping to cash in on Thanksgiving-related trips to the movies start popping up. So it seems a good time to take a quick look back at the hits and misses of Indiewood's fall before ... More »
| Title | Distributor | Locations | Gross | Per Location | Overall Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Shot: The Kevin Laue Story | Dutchmen Films | 1 | $16,501 | $16,501 | $16,501 |
| The Sessions | Fox Searchlight | 20 | $217,353 | $10,868 | $376,996 |
| District Of Corruption | Rocky Mountain Pictures | 3 | $25,086 | $8,362 | $25,086 |
| The Loneliest Planet | IFC Films | 2 | $15,689 | $7,845 | $15,689 |
| Orchestra Of Exiles | First Run | 1 | $6,719 | $6,719 | $6,719 |
| The Thieves | Well Go USA, Inc. | 22 | $105,652 | $4,802 | $532,699 |
| The Flat | IFC Films | 9 | $36,822 | $4,091 | $70,968 |
| The Waiting Room | International Film Circuit | 4 | $13,537 | $3,384 | $102,860 |
| Brooklyn Castle | Producers Distribution Agency | 8 | $26,628 | $3,329 | $50,500 |
| The Other Son | Cohen Media Group | 41 | $125,691 | $3,066 | $125,691 |
| The Big Picture | MPI Media | 6 | $17,819 | $2,970 | $40,330 |
| Hating Breitbart | Rocky Mountain Pictures | 4 | $10,994 | $2,749 | $54,066 |
| Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel | IDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films | 26 | $57,232 | $2,201 | $653,710 |
| Simon and the Oaks | The Film Arcade | 14 | $29,225 | $2,088 | $75,318 |
| Perks Of Being A Wallflower | Lionsgate | 736 | $1,449,493 | $1,969 | $11,257,172 |
| Smashed | Sony Pictures Classics | 21 | $39,592 | $1,885 | $145,105 |
| The House I Live In | Abramorama Entertainment | 12 | $22,314 | $1,860 | $107,922 |
| Tai Chi Zero | Variance Films | 23 | $41,410 | $1,800 | $158,999 |
| You've Been Trumped | International Film Circuit | 2 | $3,188 | $1,594 | $23,592 |
| Keep The Lights On | Music Box Films | 5 | $7,516 | $1,503 | $218,083 |
| Samsara | Oscilloscope Pictures | 67 | $95,202 | $1,421 | $2,179,675 |
| Somewhere Between | Independent | 6 | $8,420 | $1,403 | $107,846 |
| Arbitrage | Roadside Attractions | 125 | $165,389 | $1,323 | $7,338,652 |
| The Master | The Weinstein Company | 201 | $258,270 | $1,285 | $15,208,652 |
| Searching For Sugar Man | Sony Pictures Classics | 114 | $137,728 | $1,208 | $2,192,640 |
| The Paperboy | Millennium Entertainment | 76 | $89,327 | $1,175 | $538,352 |
| Middle Of Nowhere | AFFRM | 25 | $26,360 | $1,054 | $163,042 |
| Escape Fire | Roadside Attractions | 4 | $4,056 | $1,014 | $56,084 |
| Wuthering Heights | Oscilloscope Pictures | 12 | $10,012 | $834 | $62,129 |
| The Other Dream Team | The Film Arcade | 14 | $11,641 | $832 | $119,653 |
| Sleepwalk With Me | IFC Films | 32 | $25,945 | $811 | $2,218,647 |
| Bringing Up Bobby | Monterey Media | 2 | $1,600 | $800 | $4,678 |
| Intouchables | The Weinstein Company | 48 | $36,992 | $771 | $12,885,031 |
| Nobody Walks | Magnolia Pictures | 7 | $5,372 | $767 | $15,532 |
| Liberal Arts | IFC Films | 20 | $14,443 | $722 | $280,670 |
| War of the Buttons | The Weinstein Company | 8 | $5,399 | $675 | $38,661 |
| The Queen of Versailles | Magnolia Pictures | 8 | $5,035 | $629 | $2,380,933 |
| Atlas Shrugged Part 2 | Atlas Distribution Company | 147 | $91,419 | $622 | $3,205,472 |
| Husbands In Goa | UTV Communications | 1 | $600 | $600 | $10,135 |
| The Oranges | IDP/ATO | 5 | $2,892 | $578 | $364,875 |
| Chicken With Plums | Sony Pictures Classics | 11 | $6,080 | $553 | $226,770 |
| Unforgivable | Strand Releasing | 2 | $1,052 | $526 | $153,785 |
| V/H/S | Magnolia Pictures | 19 | $9,231 | $486 | $87,628 |
| Trade Of Innocents | Monterey Media | 3 | $1,295 | $432 | $13,649 |
| Wake In Fright | Drafthouse Films | 10 | $4,201 | $420 | $31,956 |
| 2 Days In New York | Magnolia Pictures | 7 | $2,916 | $417 | $626,231 |
| Deep Dark Canyon | Independent | 1 | $396 | $396 | $4,401 |
| The Eye of the Storm | Sycamore Entertainment Group | 1 | $368 | $368 | $81,461 |
| Celeste And Jesse Forever | Sony Pictures Classics | 11 | $3,886 | $353 | $3,087,503 |
| How To Survive A Plague | IFC Films | 9 | $2,979 | $331 | $118,490 |
| Robot & Frank | IDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films | 24 | $7,845 | $327 | $3,255,610 |
| To Rome With Love | Sony Pictures Classics | 19 | $5,313 | $280 | $16,677,746 |
| Compliance | Magnolia Pictures | 8 | $1,922 | $240 | $318,622 |
| Barfi! | UTV Communications | 1 | $228 | $228 | $2,804,874 |
| Bad Blood... The Hunger | Independent | 10 | $1,872 | $187 | $1,872 |
| Ghastly Love of Johnny X | Strand Releasing | 1 | $86 | $86 | $86 |
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Debate Continues to Rage Over 'Django Unchained' as It Gallops Past $64 Million at the Box Office
Notable figures both in and out of Hollywood continue to weigh in on Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained." The ongoing debate about the film can only help its prospects — “Django” is now more than halfway to the domestic box office total of “Inglourious Basterds," in a mere six days.
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Arthouse Audit: 'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Amour' Lead Limited Releases
With the Top Ten continuing to skew to adult-oriented, critically acclaimed films, specialized theaters playing more limited releases continue to scuffle, often at levels below previous holiday seasons. "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Amour" stood out again in their two-city platforms, although both decline...
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Post-Holiday Weekend Box Office: Three Top Films Battle for Placement
Three juggernauts grossing $28 million or more dominated a strong post-Christmas weekend, all jockeying for position since last Tuesday. The shakeout led to the top film on December 25 ("Les Miserables") falling to third by the weekend, beat out by top dog "The Hobbit" followed by "Django Unchained....
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Specialty Box Office: 'Zero,' 'Amour' and 'Silver' Continue To Soar; 'Promised Land' and 'Memphis' Disappoint in Debuts
While "The Hobbit," "Django Unchained" and "Les Miserables" brought a huge boost to the post-Christmas studio box office, a bunch of platform release holdovers -- namely "Zero Dark Thirty," "Amour," "The Impossible" and "Silver Linings...
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Boffo Four-Day Holiday Box Office, Led by 'The Hobbit,' 'Django Unchained' & 'Les Miserables,' Rings Out Record Year
It's an embarrassment of riches. The days following Christmas have been a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs in grosses. On Friday, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" repeated the #1 spot it regained on Thursday, but "Django Unchained" climbed ahead of "Les Miserables" for #2, with the latter fall...
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Bigger Than 'Pulp Fiction'? Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' Earns $34 Million in its First 3 Days
Despite -- or, more likely, because of -- the debate raging around Quentin Tarantino's latest genre pastiche "Django Unchained," the film has opened to especially large numbers at the box office, even in its position as perverse holiday counterprogramming. The Weinstein Co., Tarantino&...
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Holiday Box Office Update: 'Zero' Nears $1 Million in Just 5 Theaters
While "Django Unchained," "Les Miserables" and "The Hobbit" led the Christmas box office overall, the limited run of Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" continued to fill specialty houses ahead of its January expansion.
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Christmas Box Office Reality: Top Dog 'Les Miserables' Beats Out 'The Hobbit' and 'Django Unchained,' Rest of Field Shows Weakness
After great openings days on Tuesday, both "Les Miserables" and "Django Unchained" fell 33% on Wednesday, with the result that the order of the top three films shifted from Christmas Day. "The Hobbit," up slightly from Tuesday, edged out "Django" by a clear margin, while falling about $1 million beh...
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2012 The Year In Box Office: Hits, Flops And Secret Successes
So we’re completing a year of record domestic box office returns, but it’s impossible to ignore that the international market is a hefty player, taking a bigger overall chunk of the pie. It’s not good enough for a picture to perform in America – if it doesn’t grab more than half its share from inter...
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Tops and Flops of 2012 Box Office - Lessons Learned
On the surface 2012 doesn't look like a game-changer, after a decade of film business upheaval. In many ways the top fifteen top-grossers are all-too familiar--sequels, tentpoles, animated family fare and a comedy. But dig into the hits a bit and there are developments that could change how future f...
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Forbes' Top-Grossing Actors of 2012: Robert Downey Jr., Kristen Stewart and Christian Bale
Forbes names the Top Grossing Actors of 2012, based on the global box office take of their films. Robert Downey Jr. takes the top spot; Forbes credits the worldwide success of "The Avengers" ($1.5 billion) to his "charm and humor" while noting that he'll be walking away with more money than his co-s...
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Arthouse Audit: 'Zero Dark Thirty' and 'Amour' Open Strong
The two most awarded and critically-acclaimed films of 2012 both opened last Wednesday in New York and Los Angeles, earning the highest Metacritic scores of the year (among the best of recent years). Their performance through the first five days show that audiences are responding. While faced with m...
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Specialty Box Office: 'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Amour' Lead Packed Weekend of Newcomers
Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" continued to show strength this weekend after a record breaking mid-week debut. In just 5 theaters, the film grossed a staggering $410,000 for a $82,000 per-theater-average. That made for the fourth best average of the year behind "T...
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Pre-Holiday Box Office is Weak: Christmas Can't Come Too Soon for Studios, Theaters
Pre-Christmas weekends vary wildly in performance year by year, depending on where the dates fall (the closer to Christmas, the worse the business until December 25) and the strength of new openings. With the debuting films this year ranging for modest to weak, whatever strength there was came from ...
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Pre-Holiday Box Office: 'Jack Reacher' Best of So-So New Openers
Warning signs for this year's year-end box office prospects appeared in Friday's numbers. Even though pre-Christmas Friday was two days earlier this year (generally the closer the day is to the holiday, the fewer people are going to movies), the take for the Top Ten was only $28 million yesterday, c...
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