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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Average Sales per Theater: $77,015
Metacritic Score: 82
Netflix Average: 4.4 Stars
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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Proof
Average Sales per Theater: $24,230
Metacritic Score: 60
Netflix Average: 3.8 Stars
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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Everything is Illuminated
Average Sales per Theater: $11,134
Metacritic Score: 55
Netflix Average: 4 Stars
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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Thumbsucker
Average Sales per Theater: $9,480
Metacritic Score: 68
Netflix Average: 3.6 Stars
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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Grizzly Man
Average Sales per Theater: $1,820
Metacritic Score: 88
Netflix Average: 4.2 Stars
Weeks in Release: 6 | Last Week's Rank: 4
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The Constant Gardener
Average Sales per Theater: $2,608
Metacritic Score: 82
Netflix Average: 3.9 Stars
Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 3
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Just Like Heaven
Average Sales per Theater: $4,677
Metacritic Score: 47
Netflix Average: 4.3 Stars
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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March of the Penguins
Average Sales per Theater: $1,342
Metacritic Score: 80
Netflix Average: 4.2 Stars
Weeks in Release: 13 | Last Week's Rank: 9
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The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Average Sales per Theater: $1,985
Metacritic Score: 73
Netflix Average: 4.2 Stars
Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 6
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Junebug
Average Sales per Theater: $1,845
Metacritic Score: 80
Netflix Average: 3.9 Stars
Weeks in Release: 7 | Last Week's Rank: 8
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Lord of War
Average Sales per Theater: $3,336
Metacritic Score: 62
Netflix Average: 3.9 Stars
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Average Sales per Theater: $4,978
Metacritic Score: 46
Netflix Average: 3.6 Stars
Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 1
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Falling off the chart: Green Street Hooligans, An Unfinished Life, Murderball, Broken Flowers, 2046, Batman Begins
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This week, new releases nearly took over the chart, replacing half of last week's buzz chart. Tim Burton's Corpse Bride averaged an enormous $77,015 per theater with only limited release in NY and LA, securing the #1 position.
A trio indies (Proof, Everything is Illuminated, and Thumbsucker) also packed in seats, making their cases for wider release in the coming weeks. While Just Like Heaven and Lord of War were relative disappointments for theater owners.
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"Buzz" is a pretty tough thing to try to measure. But that doesn't stop a statistics-loving boy from giving it a shot.
Using box office ticket sales data, Metacritic scores and user votes from Netflix, I've created a formula that combines popular demand with opinion ratings. The result is a chart that includes quality films (which can only rank highly if they do well in theaters) and seat-fillers (which can only stick around on the chart if they get good reviews).
In other words, these are the films that in the past week have succeeded in enjoying the most positive attention.
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Next week's most likely films to reach the chart:
Flightplan
Oliver Twist
Dear Wendy
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