Weekend box office

L.A. Times Archives

Jan. 31, 2006 12 AM PT

Adding 819 locations gave the Weinstein Co. release “The Matador” a significant bump and entrance to the top 10, positioning the movie to take advantage of a possible Oscar nomination for Pierce Brosnan, who plays a professional assassin gone to seed. “Brokeback Mountain” added 458 more locations to achieve the widest release yet (1,643 venues) for the cowboys-in-love story. Another same-sex relationship movie, “Imagine Me & You,” opened with about $51,907 in eight theaters.

Steven Soderbergh’s experimental movie “Bubble” took in about $70,664 in 32 locations, but distributor Magnolia Pictures expects to make the bulk of its money through today’s release of the movie on DVD as well as from TV and foreign sales.

For the record:

12:00 a.m. Feb. 2, 2006 For The Record
Los Angeles Times Thursday February 02, 2006 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 55 words Type of Material: Correction
“Narnia” -- A box-office chart in Tuesday’s Calendar section gave an incorrect figure for the per-theater average for “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” The chart correctly indicated that the film took in $4.5 million in 2,170 theaters, but the per-venue weekend average for the movie was $2,076, not $4,504.

MOVIE (STUDIO); 3-DAY GROSS (MILLIONS); TOTAL (MILLIONS) VENUES; AVERAGE PER VENUE; WEEKS

1; Big Momma’s House 2 (20th Century Fox); $27.7; $27.7; 3,261; $8,505; 1

2; Nanny McPhee (Universal); $14.5; $14.5; 1,995; $7,270; 1

3; Underworld: Evolution (Sony/Screen Gems); $11.4; $44.6; 3,207; $3,556; 2

4; Annapolis (Buena Vista); $7.7; $7.7; 1,605; $7,681; 1

5; Hoodwinked (Weinstein); $7.5; $37.8; 3,020; $2,477; 3

6; Brokeback Mountain (Focus); $6.5; $51.0; 1,654; $3,995; 8

7; Glory Road (Buena Vista); $5.3; $34.9; 2,397; $2,230; 3

8; Last Holiday (Paramount); $4.8; $32.6; 2,442; $1,967; 3

9; The Chronicles of Narnia ... (Buena Vista); $4.5; $277.9; 2,170; $4,504; 8

10; The Matador(Weinstein); $3.6; $5.3; 885; $4,082; 5

Source: Exhibitor Relations Co.