F 9/11: An $8.2 MILLION dollar Friday!!!!!!

[jackstraw45]

Beat out White Chicks handily (White Chicks was on 3 TIMES as many screens by the way).

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

A screen average of over $9,000 per screen!

Way to go folks....

[skooooo]

1. It's bound to bring in even more today...

...with the matinees and fewer people working. Amazing. Michael Moore has a midas touch.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. F911 has already made a $2.2 million profit!! Cost $6 million to make...

<http://www.showbizdata.com/contacts/picknews.cfm/35480/DISNEY_ALLOWS_WEINSTEINS_TO_BUY_%3CI%3EFAHRENHEIT_911%3C/I%3E>

Excerpt:

"Disney has reportedly changed its mind and will now allow Miramax's Bob and Harvey Weinstein go buy back Michael Moore's controversial Fahrenheit 911 for $6 million, essentially what it cost Disney to produce, published reports said today (Thursday)."

Why to go, Michael!!

[skooooo]

12. ...not sure what that means..

..that's an old article from May.

[SidDithers]

17. estimate of another $10 million for marketing costs..

So it won't be profitable 'till Sunday :)

Sid

[Tellurian]

6. Yes, when I looked on the I-net Fri...

many theaters had signed on after the threat from the FCC was resolved.

I went to a local theater that hadn't even advertised in the local newspapers as of yet. It was packed to capacity. We got the last two seats together. The rest of the patrons had to randomly split up..But they didn't care. Everyone in the theater were as brothers and sisters..

[DeepModem Mom]

2. The same week Clinton's book broke records -- we're on a roll...

my friends.

[aquart]

3. I dunno. Think it could be indicative of something?

Like a HUGE market untapped by the idiot politicians and businessmen?

Whaddya think?

[DeepModem Mom]

7. And the IDIOT press, like CNN, desperate for ratings!

[DeadHead67]

9. I think Disney should now proceed. . . . .

. . ,in the words of Vice President Cheney, to GO FUCK THEMSELVES!!! Why should they make money on this? The Assholes!!!:grr:

[skooooo]

13. ..and the Beastie Boys CD.

..which is very anti-Bush.

[Misunderestimator]

5. Hot Damn....

Well, I knew that was a possibility when the 20-plex theater I went to had only one line waiting outside the doors... and it was for Fahrenheit.

[supernova]

8. That puts them on track for a $25 Mil opening weekend

That's a hell of a record for a documentary.

[jackstraw45]

10. On only 868 screens....that's the key

Most high profile movies are on between 2000-3000 screens their opening weekend.

[AndyTiedye]

14. Is that Screens or Theaters?

Some theaters have been putting it on more screens than expected, especialy for midnight shows when they have the capacity.

Metreon had it on 2 screens during the day and evening yesterday,
(they had it on 1 originally, but added a bunch of shows)
and then had shows at 11:50PM, 12:10AM, 12:30AM and 1:30AM
which has to be 4 screens going at once.

[jackstraw45]

18. Screens..not theaters...

FYI

[AndyTiedye]

21. Elsewhere they say Theaters

I see the number of screens (if one counts multiple screens in the
same theater) has already increased as theaters have added shows.
One theater ran 4 near-or-after-midnight shows, the last one starting
at 1:30 in the morning.

It could be the number of prints that were made.

One theater can run multiple shows with the same print by staggering
the shows the length of one reel of film.

[gemlake]

11. Boxofficeguru.com projects $21M-24M weekend gross

based on Friday's numbers:

"President Bush conquered the box office on Friday, with a little help from Michael Moore, as the controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 opened at number one with an estimated $8.1M in its first day of nationwide release. Playing in only 868 theaters, the Lions Gate/IFC Films release averaged an astonishing $9,378 per location in just one day. Fahrenheit blasted past all industry expectations going into the weekend as media hype surrounding the R-rated film sparked immense interest among moviegoers. For the weekend, the anti-Bush doc could gross $21-24M."
http://www.boxofficeguru.com/062604.htm

His original estimate was $15M: http://www.boxofficeguru.com/weekend.htm

[stickdog]

16. I predicted $26 million on Wednesday. Let's see who's closer.

Just call me DU guru.

[RummyTheDummy]

20. It could be up to 1,000 theaters by next weekend

Theater owners LOVE to make money, regardless of their political beliefs.

[stickdog]

15. After one day, it's the 4th biggest grossing documentary EVER!

Wahhhh, wahhhhh, it's not fair!!! Mommy, make the bad fat man STOP!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

19. and two of the top 3

are also by moore
roger and me
and
bowling for columbine

who's the third?