First Reports are in about F 9/11

[Loreths]

Everyone check this out...http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=2004-06-25&p=.htm

[G_j]

1. #1 !

1) FAHRENHEIT 9/11

$8,200,000

[Pachamama]

16. $8+ Million in opening night!!!! WOW!!!

I'm going tonite! SOLD OUT!!

[cjbuchanan]

2. Welcome to DU!

What a great time to start posting on the site.
:party:

[FloridaPat]

3. That's is outstanding. Thanks for the link. You and MM have

made my weekend.

[malatesta1137]

4. great news!

eat your hearts out, Pig Boy Rush, O'Liely, Sean Insanity and Annthrax Culter.

[Sir Craig]

Michael Eisner must be kicking himself silly right about now...

Serves the bastard right.

[KeepItReal]

9. Disney's shareholders should downsize him

For being more concerned with the GOP than with making them money.

[iconoclastic cat]

12. I hope the shareholders kick him as well.

Right into early retirement.

[Prodemsouth]

5. I went last night it was sold out a the Mansell 14 which is a mulitplex

in Alpharetta, GA. Sold out, I had to wait until the 10pm show- and it sold out as well- you could tell many left other movies to see F911- people were sitting on the floors and lots of cheer, a standing o, and whistles at the end.

[Eloriel]

19. In ALPHARETTA?

I didn't even know it was showing outside Atlanta.

But in ALPHARETTA? Whoaaaaa, baby. Love it.

[Prodemsouth]

24. You should have watched it there if you live in metro Atlanta, it was

better than any political rally. I have never seen such a exuberant crowd at a movie. The standing o and cheers and whistles was such an emotional lift.

[beyurslf]

6. 8 Million in ONE day when they said we only get 10M for the weekend!

Is 20Million too much to ask for?

[serryjw]

35. $40 MILLION for the w/e

Most people can not see it until the w/e.....I don't know how to do a poll. Can you start a poll so we can predict what the 3-day w/e $$$$$$$$ will be?
Thanks

[serryjw]

36. It's at $21.8 MILLION!

It will hit $35-40 MILLION this week end!

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Welcome to DU :^)

[KeepItReal]

8. Whuppin that farce "White Chicks"...sweet

Only playing in 1/3 the theaters, also.

[CaptainClark23]

10. Footnote of...er, note...

"NOTE: If grosses stop for a movie, it means that the respective studio is no longer tracking it on a daily basis. The exceptions are IFC, New Line, Miramax, Artisan and Lions Gate. They don't do daily box office, so estimates are made for their movies based on partial data in order to fill out the top 12. So movies from these studios are more apt to disappear from the daily chart. "

So these are estimated numbers for F9-11...it could be doing even better....

[Renew Deal]

11. Hopefully it will stay up there.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. WOOHOO!

:bounce: The repukes are going to shaking in their boots!:scared: Look at all the people who now know the TRUTH about them! Ha! They're goin' down! They're goin' down! They're goin' down!

[LTR]

14. Crunching numbers

1 FAHRENHEIT 9/11 868 screens $8,200,000
2 WHITE CHICKS 2,726 $6,760,000
3 DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY 3,020 $6,436,000
4 THE NOTEBOOK 2,303 $5,220,000
5 THE TERMINAL 2,914 $4,138,000

Total take:

$8,358,000 so far
$9,447 per screen

"White Chicks" pulled in $2,480 per screen.

I guess the RW attack on it helped. Thanks!

[freetobegay]

15. Thanks for the link.

[Frances]

17. I think the figures for this movie

for Hillary and Bill's books as well as the other anti-Bush books mean that liberals and moderates are starved for someone to present their point of view.

[Eloriel]

20. Absolutely -- AND that there are many more of us than thought

But *I* knew that all along. Like Michael Moore himself says, "The United States is a liberal nation."

[Sparkly]

21. Think it will have any effect on CNN and MSNBC?

I keep hoping.

[soggy]

18. what's the 10,921.5% for?

"white chicks" is 2nd with 105.6%... pretty big difference

and juuust to help out, i'm gonna go see it at least 1 more time. let's du this movie!

[Prodemsouth]

25. I am with you lets have movie going partys for the rest of the month

n/t

[Bucky]

26. That's #1 @ $8.2m on 868 screens vs. ~3000 screens, but less $, for others

F9/11 is making about $9400 per theatre (ie "packed houses") vs the $2000 per screen for other opening films.

This is big.

The 10921.5% is the "percentage change" in gross sales. Since this is weekend #1 I don't know what that is a change from, but it's all looking pretty good.

[Malikshah]

30. It's the percentage change from the day before

If you look at the daily totals for films you'll see some go up and down various percentages.

F911 was bound to go up in huge way due to the fact that it was going from 2 theaters to over 800 from Thursday to Friday.

BTW-- BoxOfficeMojo can be addictive etc. re: films rise and fall--
For example-- more movies these days are "front-loaded"-- they hope for boffo box office there first weekend-- the test, though is to see their percentage drop the next weekend. 40-50% is normal. Anything over 50% is often deemed ominous for the film's future grosses.

Why do I know this? For the last 3 years, I've been following LOTR etc.-- learned a lot along the way in terms of how films do--whether they have legs, or are flashes in the pan, etc.

In any case-- F911 is doing damn well for a film in only 800+ theaters vs. other films in over 2000 theaters, etc. If it's number 1 for the weekend-- folks *might* take notice in the media...don't hold your breath, though. The orders from above appear to be to disparage the film...

[Kazak]

22. Especially impressive...

when you factor in the numbers of theatres...

[scottxyz]

23. F911 has like a third of the screens and STILL is #1 !

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what I got from reading this chart:

Fahrenheit 9/11 is only showing on 868 screens, as opposed to 2,000 to 3,000 screens for all of the other movies in the top 10.

But even with drastically fewers screens, F911 is grossing more than any of the other movies!

This means that the cinemas seriously miscalculated what people wanted to see.

[mzmolly]

33. Your right!

:hi:

[Hamlette]

27. I'm a true capitalist on days like today

and almost willing to forgive Moore for supporting Nader last time.

[Bandit]

31. "almost"????? ~ I think this movie is very redeeming

In fact I now consider him a sort of Hero. and by the way Fuck Nader.

[DemonFighterLives]

28. Just adding applause! n/t

:thumbsup: :headbang:

[AntiCoup2K4]

29. So if I'm reading this page correctly.....

Fahrenheit 9/11 opened in the least number of theaters, and still brought in the highest amount of box office receipts??

Fucking awesome! :evilgrin:

[mzmolly]

34. F-ing Awesome is right! Yer reading it correctly.

YAHOO!

[sampsonblk]

32. And this should go up...

due to word-of-mouth advertising. I know a lot of people who just wanted to see if it was worth it or not. Now they are going to go see it.