Weekend Receipts: Tangled Whips Its Hair Past Harry Potter
The Hogwarts dropouts from Harry Potter 7 had to settle for the silver this weekend as Rapunzel and friends climbed to the top of the box office heap. Elsewhere, the ninjas 'n cowboys of The Warriors Way committed seppuku at number nine, while the prima ballerinas of Black Swan opened strong at number 13 in limited release. Your weekend receipts are here.
1. Tangled
Gross: $21,500,000 ($96,461,000)
Screens: 3,603 (PSA: $5,967)
Weeks: 2 (change: -55.9%)
Like I said last week, this is actually a pretty fun movie, certainly one of the best non-Pixar CG movies they've done in years. The music is fun, the horse has to be one of the best new characters in decades, and it was funny without going for the cheap, Shrekian pop culture riffs. But that title just kills me. Calling it Rapunzel would have been fine. The fact that they felt they had to "broaden" the appeal to boys and slap it with a title that sounds closer to a TV movie on Cartoon Network is a dang shame.
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
Gross: $16,735,000 ($244,236,000)
Screens: 4,125 (PSA: $4,057)
Weeks: 2 (change: -65.9%)
I know they're supposed to be on the run and all, and Harry, Ron and Hermione are supposed to look increasingly bedraggled to mirror their desperate state, but c'mon! They're wizards and shit! Can't they just magic up a nice hot shower and a restorative mud mask?
3. Burlesque
Gross: $6,100,000 ($26,957,000)
Screens:3,037 (PSA: $2,009)
Weeks: 2 (change: -48.9%)
This has to be the first movie specifically designed for gay middle schoolers. Not only is there no real conflict or no villain that isn't softened and made palatable, but a major character beat revolves around not being invited to a pizza party. But don't worry, they eventually get invited to a different pizza party.
4. Unstoppable
Gross: $6,100,000 ($68,893,00)
Screens: 3,152 (PSA: $1,935)
Weeks: 4 (change: -46.6%)
Ha ha! Holding steady each week! My man! ::claps hands::
5. Love And Other Drugs
Gross: $5,700,000 ($22,622,000)
Screens: 2,458 (PSA: $2,319)
Weeks: 2 (change: -41.5%)
Sorry, Anne. You'll be hosting the Oscars, but that wasn't enough to entice viewers to see your boner movie. Speaking of boners, if it's consolation, I don't think that was really Jake's jolly todger that we saw.
9. The Warrior's Way
Gross: $3,051,000 (new)
Screens: 1,622 (PSA: $1,881)
Weeks: 1
If you're wondering what is the warrior's way, it looks like it's the way down to Syfy network in about 2 months.
13. Black Swan
Gross: $1,394,000 (new)
Screens: 18 (PSA: $77,444)
Weeks: 1
Be warned. Contrary to what I believed, this is not an all-lady sequel to the 1997 trucker action flick Black Dog, starring Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis and Meat Loaf. Unfortunately.
[Numbers via Box Office Mojo]
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Go Unstoppable....good WOM....and the best action movie of the year.
Wow, $77,444 per screen... Something is fishy here, lets do the math (or meth if you like that too).
With tickets in average costing $10, it is roughly 7,750 people for each screen. Considering that average capacity of the art-house theater that usually takes that kind of movies, is about 250 people per showtime (and I am being large here, some are less than 200 for sure), it looks like each theater managed to run this movie about 30 screening in three days.
If the running time is 107 minutes, it means that you need at least 2 hours for each screening. So you can make about 10 (that's 20 hours at least) a day, non-stop around the clock showtimes, to make that average, and each time the theater should be fully packed.
These are extremely impressive numbers, not sure how much of it is true. In comparison if you take 4,125 screens from Harry "the infantile douche" Potter with the same PSA, it is 320 million green ones in a weekend. Somebody is blowing the numbers, unless I am missing something.