Theater Averages: Most Films were Never Looked At

January 31, 2019

Never Look Away

Never Look Away was the only film to earn a spot in the $10,000 club, as it earned $25,789 in its lone theater. It did earn an Oscar Nod for Best Foreign-Language Picture, so it could do very well in limited release.

That can’t be said of the rest of the new limited releases. The Invisibles only managed an average of $6,791 in four theaters. The Image Book earned an average of $4,618 in three theaters. The Bounty Killer missed the Mendoza Line with an average of just $1,387 in 15 theaters. Jihadists struggled even more with an opening weekend of $824 in one theater.

This past week also saw milestones reached for a few Per Theater Chart alumni:

  • Cold War crossed $1 million early in the weekend and it is far from done.
  • Stan and Ollie hit $1 million early in the weekend and $2 million by the end. However, its theater average is low enough that it will start losing theaters rapidly from now on.
  • Simmba made it to $5 million over the weekend, but that’s as far as it will go.
  • Uri: The Surgical Strike got to $2 million before the weekend and it is already at nearly $3 million.
  • On the Basis of Sex lost a lot of theaters, but that didn’t stop it from getting to $20 million. Furthermore, $25 million isn’t out of the question.
  • The Favourite expanded to take advantage of its Oscar Nominations and that helped it get to $25 million over the weekend.
  • Dragon Ball Super: Broly also got to $25 million, but it got there before the weekend.
  • Green Book hit $45 million over the weekend and was almost at $50 million by the end.
Weekend Box Office Results

Filed under: Theater Averages, The Favourite, On the Basis of Sex, Green Book, Le Livre D’Image, Die Unsichtbaren, Zimna wojna, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Stan & Ollie, Werk ohne Autor, The Bounty Killer, Salafists, Simmba, Uri: The Surgical Strike