BOX OFFICE

indieWIRE:BOT™ - Box Office Table for October 19

Box office results for the weekend ending October 17, 2005, 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
Good Night, and Good Luck. Warner Independent Pictures 68 $1,244,707 $18,305 $1,854,797
Capote Sony Pictures Classics 30 $363,876 $12,129 $1,427,060
The Squid and the Whale Samuel Goldwyn Films/Sony Pictures Entertainment 27 $279,938 $10,368 $501,232
Little Manhattan Fox Searchlight 2 $20,709 $10,355 $116,599
Before The Fall Picture This! Entertainment 1 $6,320 $6,320 $19,530
Quality of Life Relentless Co. 1 $5,911 $5,911 $5,911
Where The Truth Lies ThinkFilm 9 $37,726 $4,192 $506,878
Nine Lives Magnolia Pictures 7 $28,387 $4,055 $28,387
MirrorMask Samuel Goldwyn Films 30 $88,881 $2,963 $416,668
Innocent Voices BB Entertainment 65 $192,055 $2,955 $192,055
The Untold Story of Emmett Till ThinkFilm 10 $28,987 $2,899 $87,818
Garcon Stupide Picture This! Entertainment 4 $10,756 $2,689 $83,591
A History of Violence New Line 1348 $3,600,474 $2,671 $22,364,443
Loggerheads Strand Releasing 4 $10,664 $2,666 $10,664
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam Arrival Pictures 1 $2,476 $2,476 $175,215
Hellbent Regent Releasing 5 $11,083 $2,217 $151,667
Separate Lies Fox Searchlight 63 $121,055 $1,922 $469,846
Everything Is Illuminated Warner Independent Pictures 110 $211,229 $1,920 $1,044,443
Proof Miramax 494 $925,061 $1,873 $5,826,617
Touch The Sound Shadow Distribution 9 $14,351 $1,595 $80,572
The War Within Magnolia Pictures 16 $21,981 $1,374 $52,519
Saint Ralph Samuel Goldwyn Films 2 $2,650 $1,325 $788,738
CSA: Confederate State of America IFC Films 2 $2,644 $1,322 $10,636
Edvard Munch Shadow Distribution 1 $1,261 $1,261 $33,642
Forty Shades of Blue Vitagraph 6 $7,499 $1,250 $41,113
The Goebbels Experiment First Run Features 2 $2,433 $1,217 $35,942
Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress Empire Pictures 16 $18,613 $1,163 $516,013
El Crimen Perfecto Vitagraph 12 $13,627 $1,136 $367,649
Mobsters and Mormons Halestorm Entertainment 20 $21,713 $1,086 $310,973
Grizzly Man Lions Gate Films 64 $67,994 $1,062 $2,899,138
Tony Takitani Strand Releasing 2 $2,122 $1,061 $113,119
Dorian Blues TLA Releasing 1 $1,048 $1,048 $31,372
Ladies in Lavender Roadside Attractions 10 $9,926 $993 $6,722,242
Caterina in the Big City Empire Pictures 2 $1,918 $959 $293,268
Junebug Sony Pictures Classics 56 $50,031 $893 $2,525,095
G Aloha Releasing 12 $10,658 $888 $624,494
Three Dancing Slaves TLA Releasing 1 $864 $864 $19,247
March of the Penguins Warner Independent Pictures 303 $260,152 $859 $75,865,442
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill Shadow Distribution 5 $4,260 $852 $2,968,214
Cote D'Azur Strand Releasing 4 $3,255 $814 $113,803
The Aristocrats ThinkFilm 46 $36,202 $787 $6,195,548
2046 Sony Pictures Classics 25 $19,335 $773 $1,382,049
Broken Flowers Focus Features 100 $75,368 $754 $13,578,173
The Beat That My Heart Skipped Wellspring 5 $3,728 $746 $1,006,887
Going Shopping Rainbow Releasing 2 $1,472 $736 $16,432
The Thing About My Folks Picturehouse 16 $11,063 $691 $801,667
Pretty Persuasion Samuel Goldwyn Films 6 $4,033 $672 $301,849
Me and You and Everyone We Know IFC Films 8 $5,322 $665 $3,885,134
An Unfinished Life Miramax 205 $128,247 $626 $8,535,575
The President's Last Bang Kino International 3 $1,862 $621 $1,862
Thumbsucker Sony Pictures Classics 197 $121,384 $616 $1,111,641
Green Street Hooligans Freestyle Releasing 29 $17,763 $613 $307,486
Kings and Queen Wellspring 1 $603 $603 $277,663
Saraband Sony Pictures Classics 7 $4,178 $597 $638,839
The Memory of a Killer Sony Pictures Classics 19 $10,555 $556 $316,472
Darwin's Nightmare International Film Circuit 5 $2,773 $555 $64,871
Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela Self Distributed 2 $1,098 $549 $373,181
Tropical Malady Strand Releasing 1 $542 $542 $45,669
The Future of Food Cinema Libre 2 $923 $462 $52,168
Games of Love and Chance New Yorker Films 1 $379 $379 $379
Mad Hot Ballroom Paramount Classics 25 $8,573 $343 $8,019,421
Oldboy Tartan Films 1 $295 $295 $704,236
The Great Raid Miramax 7 $1,905 $272 $10,166,502
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Tartan Films 5 $1,329 $266 $41,593
Cronicas Palm Pictures 5 $1,243 $249 $296,001
Asylum Paramount Classics 3 $587 $196 $373,137
Edukators IFC Films 6 $841 $140 $175,493
Reel Paradise Wellspring 1 $100 $100 $24,057
The Baxter IFC Films 4 $376 $94 $181,872
Daltry Calhoun Miramax 2 $182 $91 $12,460
Apres Vous Paramount Classics 2 $94 $47 $826,220

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.