iW BOT UPDATE | "Pajamas," "InSearchOf" Lead Chart

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Mark Herman's "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas" led this past weekend's iW BOT box office chart, which was published this afternoon. The Miramax release grossed $253,085 from 17 screens for an average of $14,887. Just behind was Zeke Zelker's "InSearchOf," released through Independent Dream Machine, which grossed $12,608 from a sole screen in Allentown. The film overcome a note slapped on their poster, without their promotion that stated the film was for "mature audiences only" and that "no one under 18 permitted." "This is basically telling people that they are about to see porn, which is furthest from the truth," Zelker told indieWIRE. Rounding out the iW BOT top five were Anchor Bay's "The Alphabet Killer," Peace Arch Entertainment's "JCVD" and Maya Releasing's "August Evening," each finding averages in the $9-11,000 range. indieWIRE's regular Monday box office column will return next week. [Peter Knegt]  
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iW BOT UPDATE | "Noah's Arc" Leads

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A late reporter sneaked in to top the weekly iW BOT box office chart, which was published this afternoon. Patrik-Ian Polk's "Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom," from Logo Entertainment, grossed $151,681 on five screens. More in this week's box office column, which was published last night.  
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iW BOT UPDATE | "Elephant" Is King

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A late reporter sneaked in to top the weekly iW BOT box office chart, which was published this afternoon. Seth Grossman's "The Elephant King," from Unison Films, grossed $15,959 on a sole NYC screen. More in this week's box office column, which was published last night.  
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iW NEWS | Weekend Estimates: "Lucky" Leads, Guy Beats Madonna

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According to estimates from Rentrak this afternoon, Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky" led indieWIRE Box Office Tracking (iW BOT) - which ranks the per theater average of all reporting specialty films. The Miramax release averaged $12,222 in its second weekend, grossing $110,000 from 9 locations. The top specialty opener that reported estimates was Caroline Suh's "Frontrunners," which grossed $7,364 on 1 screen for Oscilloscope Pictures. Other openers included Magnolia Pictures' "What Just Happened?," which grossed $216,000 on 36 screens for a decent $6,000 average, and IFC Films' "Filth and Wisdom," which grossed $5,149 from its one run. While certainly not a horrible number, Madonna's "Filth" lost the battle of the dueling soon-to-be-ex-spouses, as Guy Ritchie's "RockNRolla" averaged $5,955 from 22 screens in its second weekend out. indieWIRE will publish its weekly box office column Monday night and the full iW BOT Tuesday afternoon. Get the latest in the indieWIRE Box Office section. [Peter Knegt]  
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iW NEWS | Weekend Estimates: "RockNRolla," "Happy" Open Big

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According to estimates from Rentrak this afternoon, Guy Ritchie's "RockNRolla" led indieWIRE Box Office Tracking (iW BOT) - which ranks the per theater average of all reporting specialty films. The Warner Brothers release averaged $20,143, grossing $141,000 from just 7 locations. Its total since opening Wednesday is $199,885. Just behind was the release of Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky." On 4 screens, the Miramax release grossed $80,000 for a $20,000 average. Last weekend's opener, Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Married," continued to do stellar business. On an expanded 27 screens, the Sony Pictures Classics' film grossed $464,336, averaging $17,198 and bringing its cume to $882,454 after 10 days. Another Sony Classics' entry, Wong Kar-Wai's "Ashes of Time Redux," opened mildly on 5 screens, grossing $22,050 for a $4,410 average. indieWIRE will publish its weekly box office column Monday night and the full iW BOT Tuesday afternoon. Get the latest in the indieWIRE Box Office section. [Peter Knegt]  
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iW BOT UPDATE | "Rachel" Leads

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Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Married" is atop the weekly iW BOT box office chart, which was published this afternoon. The film earned $293,369 from nine runs. Mitropoulos Films's "Ballast" and Paramount Vantage's "The Duchess" rounded out the top 3. More in this week's box office column, which was published last night.  
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iW NEWS | Weekend Estimates: "Rachel" Scores Massive PTA

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According to estimates from Rentrak this afternoon, Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Married" led indieWIRE Box Office Tracking (iW BOT) - which ranks the per theater average of all reporting specialty films. The Sony Pictures Classics release averaged $33,659, grossing a stunning $302,934 from just 9 locations. Also opening quite well was Larry Charles' Bill Maher doc, "Religulous." The Lionsgate release grossed $3,500,000 from 502 screens, averaging $6,972 in a very crowded marketplace. Not managing as well was Miramax release "Blindness." Fernando Meirelles' film opened on a wide 1,690 screens and grossed $2,002,000, averaging $1,185. Holdovers included a successful expansion for Saul Dibb's "The Duchess," which added 72 screens to bring its total to 127 but maintained a $7,047 average and brought its 3 week cume to $1,889,728. Meanwhile IDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films' surprise Christian hit "Fireproof" fell a moderate 40%, grossing another $4,068,759 and taking its total to $12,491,466. indieWIRE will publish its weekly box office column Monday night and the full iW BOT Tuesday afternoon. Get the latest in the indieWIRE Box Office section. [Peter Knegt]  
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iW BOT UPDATE | "Wild," "Duchess" Lead Chart

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Matt Wolf's "Wild Combination" is atop the weekly iW BOT box office chart, which was published this afternoon. The film earned $11,850 from one screen. Paramount Vantage's "The Duchess" and IDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films's "Fireproofrounded out the top 5. More in this week's box office column, which was published last night.  
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iW NEWS | Weekend Estimates: "Duchess" Leads, "Lucky" Bombs

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According to estimates from Rentrak this afternoon, Saul Dibb's "The Duchess" led indieWIRE Box Office Tracking (iW BOT) - which ranks the per theater average of all reporting specialty films. In its second weekend, the Paramount Vantage released grossed $570,000 from 55 screens, averaging a potent $10,364. Just behind was the surprisingly strong performance of IDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films's Christian romance, "Fireproof." The Kirk Cameron headliner grossed $6,513,996 on 839 screens, the second-highest gross for any debut on under 1000 screens this year. Fox Searchlight's "Choke" did not do quite as well. Grossing $1,335,000 on 435 screens, the Clark Gregg directed film averaged a relatively mild $3,069. Its relatively astounding, however, in comparison to Lionsgate's "The Lucky Ones." The Rachel McAdams-Tim Robbins starrer averaged just $425 from its 489 screens. indieWIRE will publish its weekly box office column Monday night and the full iW BOT Tuesday afternoon. Get the latest in the indieWIRE Box Office section. [Peter Knegt]  
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iW BOT UPDATE | "Duchess," "August," "Dead Fish" Top Chart

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Saul Gibb's "The Duchess," from Paramount Vantage is high atop the weekly iW BOT box office chart, which was published this afternoon. The film earned a huge $190,426 from just 7 runs. Maya Releasing's "August Evening," Variance Films' "Walking On Dead Fish," Balcony Releasing's "Enlighten Up!" and Redwood Palm's "Battle in Seattle" rounded out the top 5. More in this week's box office column, which was published last night.  
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iW NEWS | Weekend Estimates: "Duchess" Finds Royal Numbers

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According to estimates from Rentrak this afternoon, Saul Dibb's "The Duchess" led indieWIRE Box Office Tracking (iW BOT) - which ranks the per theater average of all reporting specialty films. The Paramount Vantage released grossed a very impressive $200,000 from just 7 screens, averaging $28,571. Ed Harris's "Appaloosa" also managed good numbers. On 14 screens, the film grossed $258,000, averaging $18,429 for Warner Brothers. Well behind both of those studio-backed films was the opening of Stuart Townsend's "Battle in Seattle." The Redwood Plam Pictures/Vitagraph Films release opened on 8 screens, drawing a decent $50,215 for an average of $6,276. Among holdovers, Oscilloscope's doc "FLOW: For Love of Water" expanded from 2 to 10 screens in its second weekend. The Irena Salina directed film grossed $27,426, averaging $2,743. Alan Ball's "Towelhead" expanded from 4 to 18 screens and grossed $65,000, averaging $3,611 and bringing its 10 day total to $138,452. indieWIRE will publish its weekly box office column Monday night and the full iW BOT Tuesday afternoon. Get the latest in the indieWIRE Box Office section. [Peter Knegt] 
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iW BOT UPDATE | "Towelhead" Leads

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Alan Ball's "Towelhead," from Warner Independent Pictures is atop the weekly iW BOT box office chart, which was published this afternoon. The film earned $52,823 from 4 runs. Balcony Releasing's "Enlighten Up!" and Strand Releasing's "A Secret" rounded out the top 3. More in this week's box office column, which was published last night.  
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iW NEWS UPDATE | Weekend Estimates: "Towelhead," "Flow" Lead Openers

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According to estimates from Rentrak this afternoon, Alan Ball's "Towelhead" led indieWIRE Box Office Tracking (iW BOT) - which ranks the per theater average of all reporting specialty films. The Warner Independent Films released grossed $53,000 on 4 screens for a $13,250 average. Oscilloscope's doc "Flow" also opened well. The Irena Salina directed film grossed $18,050 on 2 screens for a $9,045 average. And though its wide release makes it ineligible for iW BOT, Joel and Ethan Coen's "Burn After Reading" open at the top of the overall box office chart with a rather stunning $19,403,679 gross from 2,651 theaters. Certainly the all-time highest opening for a Coens' film (the previous benchmark was "The Ladykillers," which opened to $12,634,563), the Focus Features release opened well above expectations. Things weren't so good for all openers. Fred Ashman's doc "Proud American," released by Lightsource, opened on a strangely large 750 screens and grossed just $135,000. That amounts to a $180 average. indieWIRE will publish its weekly box office column Monday night and the full iW BOT Tuesday afternoon. Get the latest in the indieWIRE Box Office section. [Peter Knegt]  
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iW BOT | "Secret," "Pool," "Save Me" Top List

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Claude Miller's "A Secret" led the iWBOT this weekend, which is based on per-theater averages reported by Rentrak Theatrical. Released by Strand Releasing, "Secret" grossed $37,135 on 3 screens for a $12,378 average. A trio of other newcomers followed with Chris Smith's "The Pool" grossing $7,736 on 1 screen for Vitagraph, Robert Cary's "Save Me" grossed $6,992 on 1 screen for First Run, and David Mackenzie's "Mister Foe" grossed $13,490 on 2 screens for a $6,745 average. Among holdovers, First Run's "A Jihad For Love" rounded out the iWBOT top five in its 16th weekend of release. The doc averaged $4,748 on 2 screens and its total now stands $95,700. Another doc, Zeitgeist's "Trouble The Water," also held up well. In its third week, the film grossed $41,900 on 9 screens for a $4,136 average and a $146,384 total. Other reporting openers, Jessica Yu's "Ping Pong Playa" opened mildly for IFC Films. On 9 screens, the film grossed $30,797 for a $3,422 average. The complete indieWIRE BOT will be available Tuesday at indieWIRE.com. Our regular weekly box office column will return next week. [Peter Knegt]  
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iW NEWS | Weekend Estimates: "Django" Leads Again

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According to indieWIRE Box Office Tracking (iW BOT) estimates from Rentrak this afternoon, First Look's "Sukiyaki Western Django" led the reporting specialty films for the second weekend in a row. Directed by Takashi Miike, the film $5,094 on one screen, for the highest per-theatre average in a very weak weekend on both studio and specialty fronts. Two Sony Pictures Classics titles were next, "I Served The King of England," which grossed $72,109 on 17 screens for a $4,242 average in its second weekend, and Courtney Hunt's "Frozen River," which grossed $314,795 on 91 screens for an impressive sixth weekend average of $3,459. The weekend's sole reporting opener, Roadside Attractions' "Everybody Wants To Be Italian," grossed a weak $217,770 on 98 screens, averaging just $2,222. But that's certainly better than the second wide weekend for Focus Features' "Hamlet 2." It grossed just $819,409 from 1575 screens. Its $520 average was the third lowest of any film reporting, studio or specialty. indieWIRE will publish four-day estimates Monday and its weekly box office column Tuesday night. Get the latest in the indieWIRE Box Office section. [Peter Knegt] 
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iW BOT UPDATE | "Sukiyaki" At The Top

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Takashi Miike's "Sukiyaki Western Django" is atop the weekly iW BOT box office chart, which was published this afternoon. The film earned $12,172 on 1 run. Rounding out the top of the iW BOT were "I Served The King of England," "Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild" and "Trouble The Water" box office column, which was published last night.  
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iW NEWS | 4-Day Weekend Estimates: "Django," "England" Open, "Hamlet 2" Fails

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According to indieWIRE Box Office Tracking (iW BOT) estimates from Rentrak this afternoon, First Look's "Sukiyaki Western Django" led the reporting specialty films in the four-day Labor Day weekend, grossing $13,106 on one screen. Also opening was Sony Pictures Classics's "I Served The King of England," which grossed a decent $67,906 on 8 screens for a $8,488 average. Andrew Fleming's "Hamlet 2" was a large disappointment in its first weekend of wide release. Expanding to 1,597 screens, the Focus Featurespurchase grossed just $2.12 million, averaging a dismal $1,330. To put that in perspective, that is less than half the per theatre average of the eighth weekend of "Journey To The Center Of The Earth." Successful holdovers included "Elegy," which grossed $792,054 on 139 screens, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," which grossed $3.53 million on 692 screens, "Frozen River," which grossed $347,369 on 69 screens, and "Tell No One," which added another $456,682 in its ninth weekend, taking its very impressive total to $4.37 million. indieWIRE will publish its weekly box office column Tuesday night. Get the latest in the indieWIRE Box Office section. [Peter Knegt] 
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iW NEWS | 3-Day Weekend Estimates: "Django" Leads, "Hamlet" Tanks

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According to indieWIRE Box Office Tracking (iW BOT) estimates from Rentrak this afternoon, First Look's "Sukiyaki Western Django" led the reporting specialty films in the three-day portion of Labor Day weekend, grossing $10,236 on one screen. Behind it was the opening of Sony Pictures Classics's "I Served The King of England," which grossed $53,554 on 8 screens for a $6,694 average. The real winners of the the rather slow weekend, though, were a pair of Penelope Cruz holdovers. Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" remained on 692 screens and fell just one tenth of a percent from last weekend, grossing $3.00 million and taking its total to $12.78 million. Isabel Coixet's "Elegy" went from 92 to 139 screens and grossed $647,000, taking its total to $1.57 million. Courtney Hunt's "Frozen River" also continued to shine. Now on 69 screens, the Sony Pictures Classics hit and Sundance winner grossed $287,000 to bring its total to $779,000. Meanwhile, Andrew Fleming's "Hamlet 2" became an official failure this weekend, joining the ranks of the most unfortunate Sundance purchases. Expanding to 1,597 screens, the Focus Features flick grossed just $1.68 million, averaging $1,051. To put that in perspective, thats $500 less per theatre than the fifth week of "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor." indieWIRE will publish four-day estimates Monday and its weekly box office column Tuesday night. Get the latest in the indieWIRE Box Office section. [Peter Knegt] 
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iW NEWS | Weekend Estimates: "Water" Leads, "Hamlet" So-So

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According to indieWIRE Box Office Tracking (iW BOT) estimates from Rentrak this afternoon, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Sundance winner, "Trouble the Water," looks to lead the iW BOT, averaging $9,427 from 3 screens for a $28,281 total. That total was overwhelmingly from the Zeitgeist release's IFC Center engagement, were it grossed $21,501. Another Sundance alum, Andrew Fleming's "Hamlet 2," opened below rather huge expectations. Opening on 103 screens before a wide release next weekend, the Focus Features release grossed a mild $435,294, averaging $4,226. Another opener, Patrick Creadon's "I.O.U.S.A.," debuted on 18 screens and also found a soft $3,460 average, though certainly expectations were far lighter than "Hamlet." The national debt-doc grossed $62,278 in total for Roadside Attractions ("Momma's Man," this weekend's other notable opener, has yet to submit estimates). Among holdovers, two Penelope Cruz starrers, "Elegy," and "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," held on very nicely. "Elegy" expanded from 6 to 92 screens for IDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films and held on to a promising $5,458 average, while "Barcelona" continued to show strength on its static 692 screens, taking in a another $3,003,000. Dropping just 20%, it brings the Woody Allen film to a $8,569,474 total after 10 days. indieWIRE will publish its weekly box office column Monday night and final weekend numbers for specialty and limited release films on Tuesday. Get the latest in the indieWIRE Box Office section. [Peter Knegt]  
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iW BOT UPDATE | "A Girl" Leads

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Claude Chabrol's "A Girl Cut In Two," from IFC Films is atop the weekly iW BOT box office chart, which was published this afternoon. The film earned $18,658 from 2 runs. More in this week's box office column, which was published last night.  
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