F9/11 daily box office ### AMAZING!, simply incredible!

[lil-petunia]

OK, so I got this off sludge. I apologize, but here are the numbers:

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

with less than 1/3 or 1/4 of the venues compared to other movie openings, F9/11 not only met, but handily beat all other movies.


Theaters showing 9/11 earned $9447 per showing, an amazing number, when compared to every other movie. The next highest was White Chicks with $2480 per theater showing.

More than four times the profit, with less than 1/4 of the theaters, do you know just what kind of blow out that is?

I N C R E D I B L E ! ! ! !

And, Mr. Moore, you deserve nothing less. Your ability in this craft is fanstastic. Your final product is, well, let's just say that the numbers speak for themselves.

[Mnemosyne]

1. Bravo! and thanks lil-petunia!

[struggle4progress]

2. Yep. Repub knees is gonna be a-knockin over this 'un.

Watch the counter-attack! See David Brooks in today's NYT going hard after Moore, but carefully avoiding mention of the movie.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Nixon should have shut down the Times when he had the chance.

[cliss]

4. That's amazing, LP.

The movie's almost made $9 million and the weekend hasn't even STARTED. Wow. I'm going this afternoon, if we can get seats.

It's interesting that Moore recently sold his movie for $9 million. Looks like that distributor is holding up his champagne glass, right about now.

[wryter2000]

7. And Michael Eisner is crying in his beer

He has some 'splaining to do to the stockholders about why they won't be seeing some of this $$$. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[stickdog]

10. As Louis Black said, by selling this film to the Weinsteins,

Disney showed the same business savvy that made them say, "I know who really wants a huge American cartoon themepark -- the French!"

[Dover]

5. Wonder how it compares to the opening of Gibson's, The Passion?

That would be an interesting comparison.

[getting old in mke]

8. Passion first weekend $27.5K/screen

So Fahrenheit is right on track....

[Tummler]

9. Gibson's movie opened on 3000 screens and made $26.5M on opening day

It made $125,185,971 in its first five days. The per-theater average for The Passion of the Christ was quite impressive: $8,835 on opening day (a Wednesday) and $10,870 on its first Saturday.

On far fewer screens, F/911's estimated opening-day total of $8,200,000 is nowhere near the success that Gibson's film enjoyed. However, the initial F/911 per-theater average is estimated at $9,447 -- comparable to the Gibson film.

More:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=passionofthechrist.htm

[wryter2000]

6. Hot damn!

<speechless>

This is so well deserved. After all the struggles with networks that wouldn't show Moore's stuff or wanted to doctor it, this proves that there is justice in the world.

[Moderator]

11. Please join one of the many threads already in progress.

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