The weekend’s big box office news is of course Lionsgate’s monolithic Hunger Games, but new specialty rollouts managed to have the odds favor them as well, most notably Samuel Goldwyn Films’ October Baby and Sony Pictures Classics‘ The Raid: Redemption. Indonesian-language action feature Raid scored a $15,781 average from 14 locations, a solid rollout for the feature that will be re-made in English by Screen Gems, so stay tuned. Samuel Goldwyn delivered October Baby in several hundred theaters, reaping good numbers on its three-day tally, while others including 4:44 Last Day On Earth and Musical Chairs debuted modestly.
Among second weekend specialty holdovers, last weekend’s per screen average winner The Kid With A Bike added 21 locations, taking in more than $100K for a respectable $4,500 average (though in straight percentage terms, it’s a 72% drop) for the French-language Cannes 2011 winner. Paramount Vantage’s Jeff Who Lives At Home stayed put in 254 theaters, grossing $600K, averaging $2,362, a decent 29% drop from its opener last week. CBS Films’ Salmon Fishing In The Yemen maintained momentum in its third weekend, doubling its number of theaters, grossing $680K, averaging $5,484, a 25% decline from its sophomore run last week.
Related: ‘The Hunger Games’ Scores $214.25M Global
1. 4:44 Last Day On Earth (IFC Films) NEW [3 Theaters]
Weekend $8K, Per Screen Average $2,867
2. Brake (IFC Films) NEW [2 Theaters]
Weekend $4,048, Per Screen Average $2,024
3. The Deep Blue Sea (Music Box Films) NEW [31 Theaters]
Weekend $130K, Per Screen Average $4,194
4. Musical Chairs (Paladin) NEW [9 Theaters]
Weekend $9K, Per Screen Average $1,014
5. October Baby (IDP/Samuel Goldwyn) NEW [390 Theaters]
Weekend $1.7M, Per Screen Average $4,406
6. The Raid: Redemption (Sony Pictures Classics) NEW [14 Theaters]
Weekend $221K, Per Screen Average $15,781
7. The Trouble With Bliss (7A Productions) NEW [1 Theater]
Weekend $4,630
8. Casa De Mi Padre (Lionsgate) Week 2 [475 Theaters]
Weekend $1.1M, Per Screen Average $2,316, Cume $3.94M
9. Detachment (Tribeca Film) Week 2 [3 Theaters]
Weekend $10K, Per Screen Average $3,422, Cume $24K
10. Jeff Who Lives At Home (Paramount Vantage) Week 2 [254 Theaters]
Weekend $600K, Per Screen Average $2.362, Cume $1.78M
11. The Kid With A Bike (IFC Films) Week 2 [24 Theaters]
Weekend $108K, Per Screen Average $4,500, Cume $338K
12. Seeking Justice (Anchor Bay) Week 2 [74 Theaters]
Weekend $35K, Per Screen Average $473, Cume $403K
13. Footnote (Sony Pictures Classics) Week 3 [23 Theaters]
Weekend $164K, Per Screen Average $7,141, Cume $328K
14. Friends With Kids (Roadside Attractions) Week 3 [556 Screens]
Weekend $877K, Per Screen Average $1,577, Cume $5.57M
15. Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (Magnolia Pictures) Week 3 [27 Theaters]
Weekend $180K, Per Screen Average $6,667, Cume $386K
16. Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (CBS Films) Week 3 [124 Theaters]
Weekend $680K, Per Screen Average $5,484, Cume $1.6M
17. Being Flynn (Focus Features) Week 4 [73 Theaters]
Weekend $73K, Per Screen Average $1,009, Cume $400K
18. Boy (Paladin) Week 4 [7 Theaters]
Weekend $15K, Per Screen Average $2,216, Cume $92K
19. Undefeated (The Weinstein Company) Week 6 [17 Theaters]
Weekend $27K, Per Screen Average $1,600, Cume $378K
20. In Darkness (Sony Pictures Classics) Week 7 [51 Theaters]
Weekend $60K, Per Screen Average $1,186, Cume $794K
21. W.E. (The Weinstein Company) Week 8 [18 Theaters]
Weekend $17K, Per Screen Average $982, Cume $461K
22. Coriolanus (The Weinstein Company) Week 10 [19 Theaters]
Weekend $23K, Per Screen Average $1,247, Cume $570K
23. The Iron Lady (The Weinstein Company) Week 13 [327 Theaters]
Weekend $254K, Per Screen Average $777, Cume $29M
24. A Separation (Sony Pictures Classics) Week 13 [261 Theaters]
Weekend $348K, Per Screen Average $1,334, Cume $6M
25. The Artist (The Weinstein Company) Week 18 [576 Theaters]
Weekend $489K, Per Screen Average $849, Cume $43M
26. My Week With Marilyn (The Weinstein Compay) Week 18 [44 Theaters]
Weekend $13K, Per Screen Average $295, Cume $14.58M
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I have seen the future of action movies—and it is called THE RAID
hey imagine that, give us good movies to watch….and people show up
weird how that works
How do you feel about a remake? Can you think of anyone in the US/UK who can play any of the key roles? I’m picturing close shots, shakey cam, and an edited to hell version. And that’s a movie I don’t want to see.
David Fincher to remake THE RAID with Rooney Mara, shooting in Indonesia and with a $90M budget. It’s gold. All gold.
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4:44 was good. The Raid was absolutely phenomenal. Action flicks don’t get better than that. Very much looking forward to Evans’ sequel though I must say I have my reservations for the English language remake…….
4:44 was like a bad play at a non Equity theater.
Hunger Games was such a disappointment. Books were very cinematic but it was shot on the cheap and looked awful. Ross doesn’t have a clue about how to approach this material. I thought it might be visceral, edgy and a thoughtful adaptation but it was as bad as the Twilight movies and sadly just as successful so we’ll just get trashier sequels.
The Raid was AMAZING!!! 100% recommended.
THE RAID was fantastic.
And here’s my wild-ass prediction: The American re-shoot will be made with a bloated budget and will suck.
The Raid was a great action movie and more importantly turned a relatively simple and straightforward plot into a nuanced story with more heart and character than you usually get in this kind of action movie. When you want certain people to survive the action film and are sad they didn’t, you know the film has done a great job.
Now compare this $1.1 million budgeted film to the preview I saw at this showing of Lockout, the $30 million prison in space movie starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace. The audience I was with literally howled out loud with sarcastic laughter at the clichés: the president’s daughter held hostage, the “loose cannon” cop sent to rescue her, etc. They actually have the words “but he’s a loose cannon” in the dialogue!
Truly, truly awful and I get the bad feeling that that’s what Sony wants to do with the remake of The Raid. As Christopher says above, it will be bloated and will suck ass. Not to mention that it will be impossible to get the same action, heart and emotion out of that incredibly talented Indonesian cast and crew.