The Positive Buzz Chart
Calculating the Weekend Box Office's Hottest Tickets |
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November 7, 2005 (Updated on Monday evenings) |
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1
Jarhead
Average Sales per Theater: $11,499
Metacritic Score: 57
IMDb Average: 8.0
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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Capote
Average Sales per Theater: $5,541
Metacritic Score: 89
IMDb Average: 8.3
Weeks in Release: 6 | Last Week's Rank: 2
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Chicken Little
Average Sales per Theater: $10,960
Metacritic Score: 50
IMDb Average: 6.0
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
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Good Night, and Good Luck.
Average Sales per Theater: $4,666
Metacritic Score: 80
IMDb Average: 8.1
Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 1
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The Passenger
Average Sales per Theater: $9,101
Metacritic Score: 8.6
IMDb Average: 7.5
Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: --
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The Squid and the Whale
Average Sales per Theater: $4,940
Metacritic Score: 81
IMDb Average: 7.6
Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 8
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Average Sales per Theater: $4,960
Metacritic Score: 70
IMDb Average: 7.8
Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 6
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8
Shopgirl
Average Sales per Theater: $5,113
Metacritic Score: 62
IMDb Average: 6.9
Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 4
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Saw II
Average Sales per Theater: $5,714
Metacritic Score: 40
IMDb Average: 7.3
Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 3
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10
Paradise Now
Average Sales per Theater: $4,359
Metacritic Score: 7.3
IMDb Average: 7.5
Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 5
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A History of Violence
Average Sales per Theater: $1,151
Metacritic Score: 81
IMDb Average: 7.6
Weeks in Release: 7 | Last Week's Rank: 10
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Ushpizin
Average Sales per Theater: $4,470
Metacritic Score: 6.9
IMDb Average: 7.5
Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: --
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Falling off the chart: Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (4), The Weather Man (1), Prime (1), The Legend of Zorro (1)
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Jarhead fought its way to the top of the PBC this week despite disappointing critical reviews. The Sam Mendes war film averaged an impressive $11,499 per theater in its debut week. Chicken Little was not-so-surpringly the weekend's box office winner in ticket sales. Unfortunately, the concensus is that Disney's first non-Pixar CGA film doesn't match the quality of its predecessors, landing it at #3 on the chart, behind Capote (which in its sixth week has never ranked lower than #2).
The reissue of Michael Antonioni's The Passenger was the only other chart newcomer in a somewhat stale week at the box office. Actually, this week's chart is probably more of an indication of how weak last week's crop of movies were. Saw II was the only movie of the group to return for a second week.
The only real interesting movement from older films came from The Squid and the Whale, which has increased in critical and audience raves as it's opened in more cities across the country. The movie is two spots up from last week (although it probably would have only moved up one spot if audience-stealer Chicken Little hadn't plucked Wallace and Gromit right off the chart).
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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:
Bee Season
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic
Ellie Parker
Derailed
Zathura
Pride and Prejudice
Get Rich of Die Tryin'
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