The Positive Buzz Chart
Calculating the Weekend Box Office's Hottest Tickets |
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October 17, 2005 (Updated on Monday evenings) |
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1
Capote
Average Sales per Theater: $12,129
Metacritic Score: 89
IMDB Average: 8.2
Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 1
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2
Good Night, and Good Luck
Average Sales per Theater: $18,304
Metacritic Score: 81
IMDB Average: 7.9
Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 2
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3
The Squid and the Whale
Average Sales per Theater: $10,368
Metacritic Score: 79
IMDB Average: 6.9
Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 3
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4
Wallace & Gromit:
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Average Sales per Theater: $3,152
Metacritic Score: 87
IMDB Average: 8.0
Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 4
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5
A History of Violence
Average Sales per Theater: $2,670
Metacritic Score: 81
IMDB Average: 7.7
Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: 6
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Innocent Voices
Average Sales per Theater: $2,954
Metacritic Score: 65
IMDB Average: 8.6
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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Grizzly Man
Average Sales per Theater: $1,062
Metacritic Score: 86
IMDB Average: 8.3
Weeks in Release: 10 | Last Week's Rank: 8
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8
Nine Lives
Average Sales per Theater: $4,055
Metacritic Score: 78
IMDB Average: 5.9
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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9
The Constant Gardener
Average Sales per Theater: $1,700
Metacritic Score: 82
IMDB Average: 7.7
Weeks in Release: 7 | Last Week's Rank: 10
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10
Serenity
Average Sales per Theater: $1,430
Metacritic Score: 74
IMDB Average: 8.4
Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 7
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Average Sales per Theater: $1,416
Metacritic Score: 83
IMDB Average: 7.4
Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 9
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Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
Average Sales per Theater: $2,898
Metacritic Score: 83
IMDB Average: 62
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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Falling off the chart: March of the Penguins (15 weeks on the chart), Little Manhattan (2), In Her Shoes (1)
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This week's crop of new releases failed to make much of an impression on audiences and critics. Elizabethtown, Domino and The Fog all missed the Positive Buzz chart by a long shot despite decent ticket sales. This week's highest debut came from the wartime drama Innocent Voices at #6.
Spots #1 through #4 remained exactly the same as last week, giving Capote the biopicits third week on top of the chart. If that wasn't enough of a sign that buzz was incredibly light this week, older films Grizzly Man and The Constant Gardener both actually moved up a couple notches on the chart, with most newer released unable to sustain much interests for more than a week or two.
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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 IMDB, 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 from both critics and audiences.
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Next week's most likely films to reach the chart:
North Country
Shopgirl
Stay
Dreamer
Doom
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
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