Weekend box office
Whether it’s a blip or evidence of something more serious, at least in terms of movies seen by paying audiences in theaters, Hollywood closed the calendar year 2005 down 5.18% in total box office revenue to $8.95 billion, Exhibitor Relations Co. reported Monday in the tracking service’s final numbers for the year. Attendance dropped 7.13% to 1.41 billion tickets sold.
It was the first time in more than 40 years that movie attendance has declined three years in a row, according to Motion Picture Assn. of America statistics. Moviegoing last year was down 12.2% from the modern attendance record of 1.606 billion that Exhibitor Relations recorded for 2002.
MOVIE (STUDIO): 1. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Buena Vista)
4-DAY GROSS (MILLIONS): $33.7
TOTAL (MILLIONS): $225.7
VENUES: 3,853
AVERAGE PER VENUE: $8,750
WEEKS: 4
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MOVIE (STUDIO): 2. King Kong (Universal)
4-DAY GROSS (MILLIONS): $31.8
TOTAL (MILLIONS): $175.6
VENUES: 3,627
AVERAGE PER VENUE: $8,775
WEEKS: 3
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MOVIE (STUDIO): 3. Fun With Dick and Jane (Sony)
4-DAY GROSS (MILLIONS): $21.0
TOTAL (MILLIONS): $64.6
VENUES: 3,056
AVERAGE PER VENUE: $6,880
WEEKS: 2
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MOVIE (STUDIO): 4 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (Fox)
4-DAY GROSS (MILLIONS): $18.9
TOTAL (MILLIONS): $54.7
VENUES: 3,211
AVERAGE PER VENUE: $5,873
WEEKS: 2
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MOVIE (STUDIO): 5 Rumor Has It... (Warner Bros.)
4-DAY GROSS (MILLIONS): $11.8
TOTAL (MILLIONS): $26.9
VENUES: 2,815
AVERAGE PER VENUE: $4,188
WEEKS: 2
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MOVIE (STUDIO): 6 The Family Stone (Fox)
4-DAY GROSS (MILLIONS): $10.3
TOTAL (MILLIONS): $46.3
VENUES: 2,464
AVERAGE PER VENUE: $4,179
WEEKS: 3
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MOVIE (STUDIO): 7 Memoirs of a Geisha (Sony)
4-DAY GROSS (MILLIONS): $10.2
TOTAL (MILLIONS): $30.6
VENUES: 1,547
AVERAGE PER VENUE: $6,604
WEEKS: 4
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MOVIE (STUDIO): 8 The Ringer (Fox Searchlight)
4-DAY GROSS (MILLIONS): $8.1
TOTAL (MILLIONS): $21.7
VENUES: 1,853
AVERAGE PER VENUE: $4,345
WEEKS: 2
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MOVIE (STUDIO): 9 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Warner Bros.)
4-DAY GROSS (MILLIONS): $7.6
TOTAL (MILLIONS): $277.1
VENUES: 2,316
AVERAGE PER VENUE: $3,297
WEEKS: 7
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MOVIE (STUDIO): 10 Munich (Universal)
4-DAY GROSS (MILLIONS): $6.4
TOTAL (MILLIONS): $15.9
VENUES: 532
AVERAGE PER VENUE: $12,099
WEEKS: 2
Source: Exhibitor Relations Co.
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