Let’s try this one more time, since you seem to be arguing that “The Undefeated” is a success based on 2 days of a 3-day weekend, and also arguing that Atlas Shrugged was a failure when it did very well on it’s first full weekend, in a lot more theaters than “The Undefeated”.
I do actaully understand the movie business, but you don’t have to understand the movie business to know that we don’t have the full weekend numbers yet, and that “The Undefeated” as of Saturday was not a clear winner. There’s a non-name indie flick out this same weekend that is in more theaters than “The Undefeated”, had limited advertising, and is soundly beating “The Undefeated” at this point.
“The Undefeated” had an excellent Friday night. The Saturday numbers were good, but not great — as I pointed out in another thread, they only increased 29% over Friday, while the other big limited release film increased by 252% from it’s friday numbers.
After we have the sunday numbers, we’ll know how well it did relative to the other limited releases from this weekend. IT was a tough weekend for any movie, with Harry Potter coming out.
Atlas Shrugged had a successful first weekend. We were happy here at FR with the numbers; it had good per-screen numbers for it’s 300-screen release. It was a perfectly valid comparison to the numbers for the first weekend of “The Undefeated”, when you adjust for number of theaters.
What you posted was numbers showing how Atlas Shrugged had a good opening weekend in limited release, but failed on wider release.
Since I was addressing the 1st weekend comparison, you are simply wrong to suggest that I was incorrect. In fact, my entire point was that Atlas Shrugged did well in it’s limited release, and then fell off, and we need to wait a month or two to see whether “The Undefeated” suffers the same fate.
So oddly, you made my point while mistakenly arguing that I had no idea what I was talking about. So I guess I should thank you — apparently some people didn’t know that “Atlas Shrugged” fell off later, and I had assumed everybody knew that and would understand the comparison.
A 29% percent increase Saturday-over-Friday is cause for celebration. That another indy release is also doing well in no way vitiates that.
No entertainment industry professional will back your assertion that ‘The Undefeated’ didn’t do well this weekend, or that it’s too soon to know, or whatever the hell it is you’re trying peddle here.
It did well enough to be released wider. And it will be. I guess the distributor and AMC don’t agree with you.