WEEKEND BOX OFFICE FINAL
July 9 - July 11
1. [NEW] Despicable Me (Universal)............................... $56,397,125
Venues:3,476
2.[Sequel] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Ent.) $31,708,438 ( -51.1%)
Venues:4,468 ~ Current Domestic Cume:$235,370,815
3. [NEW/Franchise-Sequel] Predators (Fox).................. $24,760,882
Venues:2,669
4. [SEQUEL] Toy Story 3 (Buena Vista)...................$21,015,958 (-30.6%)
Venues:3,753 ~ Current Domestic Cume: $339,240,857
5. The Last Airbender (Paramount)........................$16,635,471 ( -58.7%)
Venues:3,203 ~ *Current Domestic Cume:$99,712,757
6. Grown Ups (Sony)................................................. $15,806,738 (-17%)
Venues:3,463 ~ Current Domestic Cume:$110,721,531
7. Knight & Day [Fox]........................... $7,719,251 (-26.1%)
Venues:2,628 ~ Current Domestic Cume:$61,808,110 $117
8. [REmake] The Karate Kid (Sony)..........................$5,365,636 (-32.9%)
Venues:2,458 ~ Current Domestic Cume:$164,301,124
9. [TV-REmake] The A-Team (20th Century Fox).........$1,752,421 (-45.1%) Venues:1,236 ~ Current Domestic Cume:$73,923,594
10. Cyrus (FoxSearchlight) ...................................... $1,280,470 (+65.3%)
Venues: 200 ~ Current Domestic Cume:$3,426,545 (4th wk. in ltd. release)
Top 10 Drop outs:
Get Him To The Greek (Universal) ~ Current Domestic Cume: $59,424,055
[Sequel] Shrek [4] Forever After (Par) ~ Current Domestic Cume: $233,784,897
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INDIE roundup:
[Indies/Foreign /Documentary by PSA: per-screen-average/Current Gross]
[NEW] “The Kids Are All Right” ...................................PSA: $72,127/$504,888
7 theaters in 5 markets (New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago and San Francisco), (Per-screen-average is best of any film released in 2010)
[NEW] "Winnebago Man" .........................................PSA: $10,084/$20,168
2 New York City screens (upcoming expansion to LA, SF, Philadelphia and Boston)
[NEW] “The Girl Who Played With Fire" .....................PSA: $8,777/$965,488
110 screens (87 are in the United States, 23 are in Canada)
NOTE: Last film in the trilogy, "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest," opens on October 15, 2010.
“I Am Love” ..........................................................PSA: $5,000/$550,000
110 screens / Cume: $2,050,051
"Winter’s Bone” .....................................................PSA: $4,782/$506,900
106 screens (fifth weekend) / Cume: $2,562,859
“Restrepo” ...............................................................PSA: $4,068/$101,692
25 screens / Cume: $273,564
"Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky” ..................................PSA: $2,681/$126,010
47 screens (fifth weekend) / Cume: $775,106
"Wild Grass" .......................................................... PSA:$2,650/$45,055
17 screens (third wknd) / Cume: $170,420
"Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” .........................PSA: $2,400/$276,000
115 screens (fifth weekend), resulting in a gross and a new total of Cume: $2,022,000.
[NOTE: only the fourth documentary of the year to cross the $2 million mark (after “Oceans,” “Babies” and “Exit Through The Gift Shop”).
"Love Ranch” ..........................................................PSA: $2,293/$18,341
Cume: $110,057 ($25 million budget)
Long-running Indies/Foreign/Docu films of note:
"The Secret in Their Eyes" ---Cume: $5.9 million (13th wknd)
"Please Give” ---$3.6 million (11th weekend)
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