[calreaganfan]

"Brokeback Mountain - $30,825,000

Munich - $32,901,000

Cheaper by the Dozen 2 - $72,937,000"

You have to put the above $ figures in perspective. Until this week, "Cheaper by the Dozen" has been playing on more than 3,100 screens while "Brokeback Mountain" has been playing on less than 500 (just expanded to 683). "Brokeback Mountain" per screen avg. is $8,480 compared to $1,830 for "Cheaper by the Dozen".

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

[SkyPilot]

Their are a myriad of reasons why movies are distributed in the number of theaters shown.

But the brass tax, bottom line reason those movies are in less theaters is because less people want to see them.

[Texas4ever]

Give it up cal....your point not taken move on to the Dummies website. You are out numbered. THE WEAKEST LINK GOOD BYE>

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"Brokeback Mountain" per screen avg. is $8,480 compared to $1,830 for "Cheaper by the Dozen".

In the history of cinema, I've never seen "per screen avg." so hyped as it is with this movie.

You could make a Hungarian yodeling movie, show it exclusively in Hungarian mountain towns, and crow about it's high "per screen average", but it still doesn't mean anybody outside that limited circle had any interest in seeing it.