The Positive Buzz Chart
Calculating the Weekend Box Office's Hottest Tickets |
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October 24, 2005 (Updated on Monday evenings) |
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1
Capote
Average Sales per Theater: $11,817
Metacritic Score: 90
IMDb Average: 8.2
Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: 1
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Good Night, and Good Luck.
Average Sales per Theater: $10,040
Metacritic Score: 80
IMDb Average: 8.0
Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 2
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Average Sales per Theater: $22,582
Metacritic Score: 69
IMDb Average: 7.5
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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The Squid and the Whale
Average Sales per Theater: $7,883
Metacritic Score: 79
IMDb Average: 7.1
Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 3
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Shopgirl
Average Sales per Theater: $28,710
Metacritic Score: 61
IMDb Average: 6.7
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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Ushpizin
Average Sales per Theater: $10,737
Metacritic Score: 69
IMDb Average: 7.4
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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7
Wallace & Gromit:
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Average Sales per Theater: $2,472
Metacritic Score: 87
IMDb Average: 8.1
Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 4
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Dreamer:
Inspired by a True Story
Average Sales per Theater: $4.573
Metacritic Score: 59
IMDb Average: 7.1
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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A History of Violence
Average Sales per Theater: $2,064
Metacritic Score: 81
IMDb Average: 7.6
Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 5
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North Country
Average Sales per Theater: $2,513
Metacritic Score: 69
IMDb Average: 7.4
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Average Sales per Theater: $1,122
Metacritic Score: 83
IMDb Average: 7.4
Weeks in Release: 6 | Last Week's Rank: 11
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Serenity
Average Sales per Theater: $1,185
Metacritic Score: 74
IMDb Average: 8.4
Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: 10
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Falling off the chart: Grizzly Man (10 weeks on the chart), The Constant Gardener (7), Innocent Voices (1), Nine Lives (1), The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (1)
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For the fourth straight week, biopic Capote tops the Positive Buzz Chart. With strong reviews from both critics and audiences, as well as a box office average that hasn't yet dropped below quintuple digits, the film has been unbeatable. Its closest competition, political/journalism film Good Night, and Good Luck. sits at #2 for the third week in a row.
The highest debut of the week belongs to Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang starring Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr. (who also appears in Good Night, and Good Luck.). Steve Martin's Shopgirl rings in at #5, followed closely by Israeli film Ushpizin.
Dakota Fanning horse flick Dreamer finished in the middle of the pack at #8, and Niki Caro's North Country had trouble attracting crowds over the weekend entering the chart at a disappointing #10.
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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:
The Weather Man
Prime
Paradise Now
Legend of Zorro
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