indieWIRE:BOT™ - Box Office Table for January 5

Box office results for the weekend ending January 3, 2004, sorted by per-screen average. For people with current browsers, clicking on a column header will resort the table by that column (clicking a second time will reverse the sorting order.)

Title	Distributor	Screens	Gross	Per Screen	Overall Gross
Hotel Rwanda	United Artists	7	$142,378	$20,340	$426,803
William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice	Sony Pictures Classics	4	$69,868	$17,467	$103,260
The Assassination of Richard Nixon	ThinkFilm	5	$37,547	$7,509	$55,255
The Woodsman	Newmarket Films	13	$83,077	$6,391	$197,623
The Aviator	Miramax	1796	$11,364,664	$6,328	$31,541,390
Born Into Brothels	ThinkFilm	1	$6,300	$6,300	$55,045
Bad Education	Sony Pictures Classics	47	$282,562	$6,012	$1,759,188
Sideways	Fox Searchlight	370	$2,150,398	$5,812	$22,404,206
In The Realms of the Unreal	Wellspring	3	$17,167	$5,722	$70,465
House of Flying Daggers	Sony Pictures Classics	161	$741,890	$4,608	$4,157,199
A Very Long Engagement	Warner Independent Pictures	167	$692,061	$4,144	$2,653,128
The Sea Inside	Fine Line	5	$18,784	$3,757	$142,474
A Love Song for Bobby Long	Lions Gate Films	8	$28,243	$3,530	$41,771
Beyond The Sea	Lions Gate Films	383	$1,340,773	$3,501	$1,917,756
Sky Blue	Self Distributed	1	$3,022	$3,022	$3,022
Finding Neverland	Miramax	1054	$2,590,313	$2,458	$24,676,372
Notre Musique	Wellspring	3	$7,240	$2,413	$70,282
Postmen in the Mountains	Shadow Distribution	3	$7,225	$2,408	$117,656
Kinsey	Fox Searchlight	228	$531,360	$2,331	$6,734,321
Moolaade	New Yorker Films	2	$4,123	$2,062	$109,790
The Motorcycle Diaries	Focus Features	93	$189,754	$2,040	$15,724,900
Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela	Self Distributed	3	$6,081	$2,027	$69,084
Bear Cub	TLA Releasing	4	$7,259	$1,815	$66,096
Callas Forever	Regent Releasing	6	$10,228	$1,705	$330,761
Veer-Zaara	Yash Raj Films	10	$14,246	$1,425	$2,874,425
What the Bleep Do We Know?	Samuel Goldwyn Films/Roadside Attractions	58	$68,416	$1,180	$10,091,903
Vera Drake	Fine Line	19	$22,226	$1,170	$2,122,643
Being Julia	Sony Pictures Classics	43	$47,841	$1,113	$3,555,620
Tarnation	Wellspring	7	$7,388	$1,055	$478,112
Almost Peaceful	Empire Pictures	1	$1,055	$1,055	$89,931
Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst	Magnolia Pictures	2	$2,096	$1,048	$72,933
Seducing Doctor Lewis	Wellspring	3	$2,473	$824	$469,551
Lightning In A Bottle	Sony Pictures Classics	6	$4,920	$820	$136,367
Red Lights	Wellspring	2	$1,500	$750	$634,064
Rosenstrasse	Samuel Goldwyn Films	4	$2,951	$738	$727,467
I Heart Huckabees	Fox Searchlight	43	$26,129	$608	$12,596,975
Fear and Trembling	Cinema Guild	1	$551	$551	$23,965
Zelary	Sony Pictures Classics	1	$524	$524	$329,729
La petite Lili	First Run Features	1	$492	$492	$21,983
Garden State	Fox Searchlight/Miramax	24	$10,717	$447	$26,754,251
Napoleon Dynamite	Fox Searchlight	114	$47,898	$420	$44,411,050
A Talking Picture	Kino International	1	$387	$387	$10,645
Untold Scandal	Kino International	2	$594	$297	$44,599
Enduring Love	Paramount Classics	1	$276	$276	$349,117
Deserted Station	First Run Features	1	$118	$118	$11,837
Head in the Clouds	Sony Pictures Classics	1	$72	$72	$398,179
The Machinist	Paramount Classics	26	$521	$20	$1,004,511

indieWIRE:BOT™ is compiled from information voluntarily submitted to indieWIRE by distributors of the films listed. indieWIRE:BOT™ utilizes per-screen average of the movies reported as an indicator of a film's current strength in the marketplace, its current comparative quality, and its current brand consciousness, rather than providing a scorecard for revenue watchers.