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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=12130 Potter Goblets Up Thanksgiving
Source: Box Office Mojo November 27, 2005
The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with the studio estimates for the extended Thanksgiving weekend. Be sure to stay tuned there for the final figures on Monday.
Thanksgiving is often one of the busiest weekends at the movies, since many people use their extended four or five-day weekend to spend time with the family. With that in mind, five new movies opened on Wednesday trying to cash in on that business, although only one movie did well enough to be considered a Thanksgiving hit.
That clear-cut winner was once again Warner Bros' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth installment in the series, which made another $81 million over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday, as estimated $55 million over the weekend, bringing its total just over $201 million in just ten days. This puts it well ahead of the first installment of the Harry Potter series, which earned $187 million by the end of its second weekend four years ago, and the second movie Chamber of Secrets, which took a whole week longer to reach the $200 million mark. It is now the fourth fastest movie to reach that milestone behind the two Spider-Man movies and Star Wars: Episode III.
In its second week at second place, 20th Century Fox's Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, continued to do great business thanks to strong word-of-mouth, and it held up well, adding another $19.7 million to its 10-day cumulative gross of $54.7 million.
Paramount Pictures' remake of the Lucille Ball comedy Yours, Mine and Ours with Dennis Quaid and Renee Russo, scored well in a holiday weekend where family films are always popular, grossing $24.5 million in its first five days, coming in third for the three-day weekend with roughly $17.5 million. Opening in more theatres than the other new movies, it maintained a decent average per theatre of $5,450. Like last year's Christmas with the Kranks, it proved once again that poor reviews don't matter when it comes to finding movies for the whole family over Thanksgiving weekend.
Dropping down a notch to fourth place, Walt Disney Pictures' Chicken Little also took advantage of the wealth of families and shoppers out on "Black Friday", to pull in another $2.4 million in its third weekend, bringing its box office total over $118 million.
After a terrific opening day, grossing roughly $5 million, the musical Rent, directed by Chris Columbus, quickly levelled off in its next four days, and its three-day weekend take of $10.7 million was quite dismal in comparison to its promising opening. It ended up in fifth place with a five-day haul of roughly $18 million.
After a comparitively slow start, New Line's irreverent romantic comedy Just Friends, starring Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart, picked up steam over the extended weekend thanks to positive word-of-mouth, ending up with $13.6 million over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend.
The latest adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice has done great business in its two weeks of limited release, and on Wednesday, it expanded into 1,299 theatres across the country. In the five days, it was able to add over $9 million to its box office take with a healthy per-theatre average over the weekend comparable to that of Yours, Mine and Ours. To date, it has grossed just under $16 million.
Eighth and ninth place was filled by two other returning films. Sony's space adventure Zathura, directed by Jon "Elf" Favreau, earned an estimated $4.9 million, while the Weinstein Co.'s charter offering, the Clive Owen-Jennifer Aniston thriller Derailed added another $4.7 million to bring their totals up to $26 and $29.4 million respectively.
Two new crime comedies in moderate release didn't do as well over the weekend, as Usher's debut In The Mix made only $6.1 million in its first five days, and the Harold Ramis directed The Ice Harvest, starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton grossed an estimated $5 million. Usher rounded out the Top 10 while Ice Harvest ended up just outside.
Opening in just five theatres in New York and L.A., writer/director Stephen Gaghan's Syriana, starring Goerge Clooney and Matt Damon, earned roughly $550 thousand in its first five days in limited release. Its weekend per-theatre average of almost $75 thousand makes it the 16th highest average ever, just below Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, another Warner Bros. release. Its a good start for the political thriller, which is scheduled to get a nationwide roll-out on December 9.
On Wednesday, Warner Bros. also rereleased their 2004 holiday hit The Polar Express into 66 IMAX theatres, where it made another $1.4 million, an impressive average of over $18 thousand per theatre.
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Everyone's been saying that for the most part the audiences enjoyed it. I know mine did. 
