How to Win on the Per Theater Chart
March 30, 2010
Only one film earned more than $10,000 on the per theater chart, and that was the overall box office leader, How to Train Your Dragon. That film earned an average or $10,785 in more than 4,000 theaters.
The best of the new limited releases was Bluebeard, with $8,370 in its lone theater. Waking Sleeping Beauty was next with an average of $6,623 in five theaters. That's strong enough to suggest that other theaters will book the film, but not so strong that significant expansion is very likely. The same can be said of Dancing Across Borders, which opened with an average of $5,204. There was a large gap on the per theater chart as Chloe opened in 350 theaters but averaged just $2,573 per theater. Dream Boy was right behind with $2,243 in one theater, while The Eclipse finished the weekend with a nearly identical average of $2,201 from six theaters. Just Say Love struggled even more, missing the Mendoza Line at $1,257 in one theater. Manuela and Manuel opened with $629, also in one theater. Finally, we get to Ca$h, which opened in 27 theaters but only managed $16,000 for an average of $610.
This past week also saw milestones reached for a few Per Theater Charts alumni:
- C.S.Strowbridge
Filed under: Män som hatar kvinnor, Das Weisse Band: Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte, How to Train Your Dragon, Ca$h, Waking Sleeping Beauty, The Eclipse, Greenberg, The Runaways, Chloe