F 9/11 #1 Friday Night

[darknemus]

8.2 Million according to Box Office Mojo.

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

-darknemus

[DS1]

1. for being open in anywhere between 1000 and 2000 less screens

that really says something!

[Malikshah]

2. WOOHOOOOOO

That is so great!!! Just to make yourselves feel better compare the Theater counts below each movie and the PTA (Per-Theater Average)

F911 may not be able to keep that momentum over the weekend--but Friday is frikkin Awesome!!!!

How will the mediawhores deal with this...??? }(

*Vast silence* is my guess

[javadu]

3. It Could Have Been Bigger

My Wife and I went to see it last night on the only screen showing it within 60 miles of where we were. We went to see the 7:05 show and it had sold out by 5:00 pm. The 9:30 show was also sold out so we went to see "The Terminal." There were many others who were turned away as we were.

Any others have similar experiences?

[Cocoa]

4. trounces the other new movies

White Chicks and Dodgeball, each with three times as many screens.

Bring on Spiderman!

[Citizen Daryl]

5. You know what this means, don't you?

According to Box Office Mojo. $8.2 million on Friday on just 868 screens ($9,447 per screen). It's nearest competition was White Girls at $6.8 million on 2,726 screens ($2,480 per screen).

This means that if Fahrenheit 9/11 had been playing on as many screens as it's closest competitor, it would have earned $25.7 million dollars on opening night.

(Edit: bad HTML tags)

[smiley_glad_hands]

7. Hopefully capitalism

will dictate that more theatres begin to show it.

On edit---it sold out last nite in Richmond, Va. Had to get tickets for a show today.

[beyurslf]

6. Look at the screen averages:

9400 compared to 2400

And people were turned away at my theater too.

[eaprez]

8. Those are just estimates....

...the real #'s won't be posted until Monday.

[darknemus]

9. Just as an FYI

Box Office Mojo's estimate #s are almost always spot-on. There's typically no more than a 5-7% deviation from the numbers posted.. in all honesty, often, the real numbers tend to skew up a bit from the estimates.

-darknemus

[eaprez]

10. Which is kewl...

...it just should have been stated they were estimates.

[Moderator]

11. That's great.

But let's stick to news stories in LBN. Thanks.