Weekend Box Office results Sept.30-Oct.2
This weekend past it was Flightplan that sold the most tickets at the box office for the second week in a row.
In fact, here is a list of the top ten movies in ticket sales this last weekend:
1) Flightplan
2)Serenity
3)Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
4)A History of Violence
5)Into the Blue
6)Just Like Heaven
7) The Exorcism of Emily Rose
8)Roll Bounce
9)The Greatest Game Ever Played
10)The 40-Year Old Virgin
These are the ten movies in Cinemas in North American that sold the most tickets, and thus are rated as the most successful at the Box-Office. But that statistic depends on whose success you are concerned for. These numbers tell overall which movies made the most sales, and that is far and away the movie Flightplan with $15,038,000.
But there is another interesting and telling statistic, and that is ticket sales per theater. Flightplan was shown in 3424 theaters, and thus each theater made $4391 in sales. This figure is nowhere near the top of the list, if you are concerned with the individual markets.
Mirrormask was released independantly and was shown in 18 cinemas across North America. Each of these cinemas made $7055 in ticket sales.
The champion by far however is Capote, which was shown in 12 cinemas, each taking in $29,083, nearly seven times that of flightplan.
I find these types of statistics to be fascinating, but at the end of the day, your top ten movies should probably be based on the ten movies that the most people went to see this weekend.
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1 opinion for Weekend Box Office results Sept.30-Oct.2
Karine
Oct 5, 2005 at 5:41 am
Hi Jacob,
Those stats are interesting, but I feel like you’re only on the surface of things. I’m guessing variables like the price of the ticket in the theaters showing the movies, as well as the number of showings per day, would go a long way into shedding some light into the subject. As would the size of the theater the movie’s shown in, I believe.
Mostly, my point is that you can easily make numbers say whatever you want. And that I agree that at the end of the day, the top then movies should be the ten movies that the most people went to see. Fascinatingly, that is how the box office in France is ‘counted’ - by the number of tickets sold, rather than how much they made. That may be because the french hate to talk about money, but I digress. It does make it a lot easier to get an idea of a movie’s success. It would be interesting to see in what other countries it’s used.
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