10/30 - Box Office Report

After 7 weeks, we finally have a movie opening bigger than $30 million.  In fact, Saw II had the best per screen average of any number 1 film since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory over three months ago. Saw II also became the 15th biggest debut of the year, the 5th biggest October opener ever, while everything else new was a massive disappointment. 

Including Zorro II, check out what happened this year to all the films that opened on around 3500 screens - the 2005 films all scraped the bottom of the barrel.  Before 2005, the average opening of that size was $48.1 million.  Now, it's $36.8 million.  Let me put it a different way: thanks to this year's awful openings, Daredevil is now above the average for a debut that size.

Rank	LW	Week #	Title	Weekend Total	% Change	Cumulative Total	Screens	Per Screen Average
1	New	1	Saw II	$30,500,000	--	$30,500,000	2949	$10,342.49
2	New	1	The Legend of Zorro	$16,500,000	--	$16,500,000	3520	$4,687.50
3	New	1	Prime	$6,395,000	--	$6,395,000	1827	$3,500.27
4	2	2	Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story	$6,300,000	-31.4%	$17,541,000	2491	$2,529.10
5	3	4	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	$4,400,000	-48.7%	$49,793,000	2935	$1,499.15
6	New	1	The Weather Man	$4,225,000	--	$4,225,000	1510	$2,798.01
7	1	2	Doom	$4,061,000	-73.8%	$22,868,000	3042	$1,334.98
8	5	2	North Country	$3,650,000	-43.2%	$12,199,000	2555	$1,428.57
9	4	3	The Fog	$3,300,000	-50.5%	$25,503,000	2587	$1,275.61
10	7	6	Flightplan	$2,600,000	-45.0%	$81,190,000	1766	$1,472.25
11	6	3	Elizabethtown	$2,350,000	-58.2%	$22,666,000	2137	$1,099.67
12	12	4	Good Night, and Good Luck	$2,000,000	-11.5%	$7,236,000	272	$7,352.94