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BIG FISH managed to average a whopping $35,000 per theater (6 theaters) for a total of $219,000 for the weekend.
Ryan
I thought it wasn’t opening until Christmas?
It’s already playing in New York and L.A.
Is it just playing in any theater in New York? I’m going there soon and I want to see it early.
why is this film being so crazy-faced, is it out or is it not out, ugh!?!
Selected Cities now. Everywhere at the end of the month.
Selected cities as in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto.
It’s on 1 screen here in Toronto. Packed when I saw it on Thursday night.
Ryan
It’s not showing here (St. Louis) until the middle of January.
Yeah, Pammy, tell me about it: good ol’ Nebraska doesn’t get ANYTHING until it’s gone through the more populous areas first. We get a lot of dribblers…
-E
Dribblers you say?
We don’t even get THAT in Mississippi.
Nat
Well, I’m in Ohio, and I know someone who got a sneak preview for the 17th. Now, if only I can find her and grab it and run….
Really? I heard it’s coming to KC on the 24th and that’s what AMC’s been advertising (AMC is based here in Kansas City, MO). So, is this like a “paper launch” of the movie? It’s out but it’s really not? Is this JUST so they don’t compete with ROTK?
Hahaha! I found her, and I grabbed the tickets and ran! (Or, my friend knew someone who won free tickets to a sneak preview, and got them for us. Either way. I went, I saw, and it was saucy)!
If anything, you KNOW someone has pirated it already…just pick up a copy at your local mom & pop video store…
Tumbleweed — tisk, tisk, tisk.
But anyway, yes, there are movies every year that open in big cities first, then move to the rest of America. Sometimes, if there is not bulk appeal, the movie NEVER moves out to the rest of America (2002’s “Nicholas Nickleby”, for one, which I was looking forward to immensely but had to wait for video).
But I don’t think we have to worry about “Big Fish” NOT having appeal…I can think of a large community of Burton/Elfman fans who would storm Sony Studios in riotous protest if the studio chose not to release it to “the little people.”
BIG FISH is getting a “platform” release. The studio releases it in key markets first, to build word of mouth, then slowly opens the film on more screens in the following weeks. It helps smaller movies get noticed, instead of dumping them in theaters and getting lost.
Ryan
Amen to that.
…And it’s all about the piracy. muhahahahanot showing in NJ eiether
To whoever was asking about it playing in NY…the only theater as of right now i believe is the AMC Ampire theater in Times Square….thats where i went to see it twice on Dec 10 and 11 and from what i an tell they are running shows almost every hour.
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