Sentences with phrase «theater average»

Per theater average is a fun little metric that's most useful when applied to tiny films with white - hot critical acclaim.

Music Box's The Innocents is scoring the third best per theater average of the weekend, though the numbers are only decent.

Mike Birbiglia's Don't Think Twice, however, is the weekend's limited release superstar, with the highest per theater average at just over $ 30K.

We're looking at an over $ 47,000 per theater average for the significant limited expansion of Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers drama.

FilmRise's doc The Witness technically had the weekend's highest overall per theater average in its exclusive engagement, grossing $ 15K, while Oscilloscope's feature The Fits, also in a single location, bowed with $ 11,300.

Directed by Ira Sachs and starring Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Ehle, Little Men had the best per theater average among limited release titles this weekend from a total $ 32,250 gross.

The Sony Pictures Classics feature had the year's highest per theater average opening at $ 101,219.

Greta Gerwig's directorial debut Lady Bird — which also features Timothée Chalamet — took the title of the year's best per theater average opener when it rolled out the first weekend of November, grossing $ 375,612 in four theaters, giving the A24 release a $ 93,903 average.

Among other titles making their bows, the restored re-release of Howards End managed to score the highest per theater average as of Sunday morning.

Starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton and Kirsten Dunst, the title handily topped all releases in a per theater average basis at $ 37K in five theaters.

Otherwise, no movies did really well this weekend; even the limited release per - theater averages turned out middling to miserable.

Considering Real Steel had the higher per theater average despite being in its second week, my money is on that one taking another 40 % hit, earning another $ 10 million and just edging out Footloose.

Johnny English Reborn is due out in 1,551 theaters and, should it pull a Nanny McPhee and post a per theater average half the value of the original's, it'll wrap its first weekend with just $ 3 million.

Last year, Moonlight — another sensitive, quasi-autobiographical film from prestige film distributor A24 — rode a $ 402,075 opening weekend and $ 100,519 per four theater average all the way to Oscar gold.

Even though Roman J. Israel, Esq. is coming in higher than other notable arthouse titles on the chart such as Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Lady Bird, the latter two movies are packing their house and putting up better theater averages with $ 7,4 K and $ 5,1 K to Roman «s $ 2,8 K.

Sundance Film Festival 2016 documentary winner Weiner topped the weekend's new Specialty releases, and boasts the highest per theater average debut among non-fiction releases this year.

David Mackenzie's Hell or High Water flowed into 32 theaters, becoming the highest per theater average earner of the weekend among all films reporting grosses Sunday.

Directed by Jeff Nichols, the sci - fi thriller grossed $ 97K, giving it a robust $ 19,400 PTA, the best average among the Specialties this weekend even though down about 48 % from its opening $ 37K per theater average last week.

In limited release, Greta Gerwig's directorial debut Lady Bird earned $ 375,612 on four screens for a fantastic theater average of $ 93,903, after scoring a perfect 100 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Specialty openers had mostly a slow - go this weekend, while a second weekend holdover, Denial, had the best per theater average showing among limited release titles.

The drama starring Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as long - estranged and troubled twins reuniting and putting each others» lives back on track took in $ 410,756 from 15 theaters for a strong $ 27,383 per - theater average for Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate.

Should it put up a $ 6,000 per theater average in its 2,124 locations, Silent House will kick off its run with $ 12 million.

The gorgeous romantic film, directed by Luca Guadagnino, just earned the year's highest per - theater average opening at $ 101,219 over Thanksgiving weekend, per Deadline, ultimately grossing $ 404,874 in four New York and Los Angeles theaters.

Sony Pictures Classics» Independent Spirit Award six - time nominee Call Me By Your Name is posting an estimated $ 111,5 K per theater which will easily give it the best opening theater average of the year, beating Lady Bird «s $ 91K four weeks ago.

On the eve of the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump supporters and dissenters can unite under the anti-Hillary documentary Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party by Dinesh D'Souza as the year's biggest doc per theater average opener.

Mike Birbiglia's Don't Think Twice bowed in just a single theater, but moviegoers clearly found it, pushing the title to claim the year's top per theater average at over $ 90K, beating the benchmark made just last week by Café Society, which played 50 runs in its second frame this sizzling weekend in a robust expansion.

Rescue's three - digit per - theater average on its first weekend in modest release still ranks as one of the worst debuts of all time.

CBS Films and Lionsgate's crime drama Hell or High Water bowed in 32 theaters Friday, easily floating to the top per theater average among the weekend's Specialty newcomers at $ 18,500, though Anthropoid from Bleecker Street handily cashed in as the biggest opening gross at over $ 1.2 million in 452 theaters.

Cannes Directors Fortnight debut Green Room opened in three theaters Friday scoring the weekend's best per theater average as of early Sunday.

The multi-city release reduced the per theater average for this period bio-pic release.

The theater average of some $ 10,000 is around the level of similar results for breakout successes like «Lady Bird» and «The Shape of Water.»

«Taken 2» opened big with $ 50 million and an impressive $ 13,657 per theater average, putting the film well into the green in just one weekend.

Surprisingly, The Debt comes in at number two with $ 9.7 million, posting a far stronger per theater average than the week's wider releases, Apollo 18 and Shark Night 3D.

Paul Schrader's dramatic thriller First Reformed, starring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried, handily outpaced all new limited release titles over the weekend with a per - theater average of $ 25,067.

Roadside Attractions earned their highest ever opening weekend per screen average with «Manchester By The Sea,» which took in $ 64,125 per screen — the fourth highest per theater average of any film released this year.

Both «Non-Stop» and «Son of God» managed to open relatively big with «Non-Stop» claiming a total of $ 30 million on a solid $ 9,715 per theater average and «Son of God» taking in $ 26.5 million of its own.

Falling a mere 3.1 %, Puss» $ 33 million put it $ 8 million ahead of newcomer, Tower Heist, which took $ 25.1 million on a solid $ 7,455 per theater average.

The TriStar release opened with an impressive $ 7,580 per theater average and a total of $ 8.8 million.

The Three Stooges had a mediocre start, pulling in $ 17.1 million on a so - so $ 4,918 per theater average.

50/50 came in fourth with $ 8.9 million on a lackluster $ 3,604 per theater average.

That tally yielded the highest per - theater average of the weekend, though right behind it was IFC Films» The Death of Stalin, which came in with $ 18,143 per situation in its second frame even while expanding to 32 runs.

Roadside Attractions opened Sally Potter's black - and - white dramedy The Party in three locations Friday, taking in $ 36,344 and recording the second - highest per theater average of the weekend.

Russell Harbaugh's Tribeca»17 debut Love After Love landed atop the weekend's specialties when looking at per theater averages, though it was just in one New York location.

It took in $ 27,000 for a per - theater average of $ 9,000 and is of particular interest to Hollywood as it was directed by Jon Watts, the man who just took over the «Spider - Man» franchise.

Shape, Guillermo del Toro's adventure - fantasy starring Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon and Octavia Spencer, had a robust start in just two New York theaters, grossing $ 166,800 for a strong $ 83,400 per - theater average, the highest of the weekend and the fourth - best of 2017.