The Positive Buzz Chart
Calculating the Weekend Box Office's Hottest Tickets |
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December 19, 2005 (Updated on Monday evenings) |
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King Kong
Average Sales per Theater: $14,049
Metacritic Score: 81
IMDb Average: 8.3
Box Office Rank: #1
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
BUZZ SCORE: 32.40 | Official Site
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Brokeback Mountain
Average Sales per Theater: $36,354
Metacritic Score: 87
IMDb Average: 8.0
Box Office Rank: #8
Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 2
BUZZ SCORE: 32.00 | Official Site
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The Chronicles of Narnia
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Average Sales per Theater: $8,651
Metacritic Score: 76
IMDb Average: 7.6
Box Office Rank: #2
Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 1
BUZZ SCORE: 29.76 | Official Site
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Average Sales per Theater: $25,044
Metacritic Score: 54
IMDb Average: 6.5
Box Office Rank: #12
Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 4
BUZZ SCORE: 26.80 | Official Site
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5
The Producers
Average Sales per Theater: $25,765
Metacritic Score: 46
IMDb Average: 7.1
Box Office Rank: #23
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
BUZZ SCORE: 25.50 | Official Site
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Mrs. Henderson Presents
Average Sales per Theater: $7,081
Metacritic Score: 71
IMDb Average: 6.9
Box Office Rank: #36
Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 6
BUZZ SCORE: 23.58 | Official Site
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7
Harry Potter
and the Goblet of Fire
Average Sales per Theater: $1,868
Metacritic Score: 81
IMDb Average: 7.8
Box Office Rank: #4
Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 7
BUZZ SCORE: 23.47 | Official Site
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8
Syriana
Average Sales per Theater: $3,157
Metacritic Score: 76
IMDb Average: 7.0
Box Office Rank: #5
Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: 3
BUZZ SCORE: 23.36 | Official Site
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9
Transamerica
Average Sales per Theater: $6,798
Metacritic Score: 66
IMDb Average: 8.3
Box Office Rank: #47
Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 5
BUZZ SCORE: 23.10 | Official Site
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10
Capote
Average Sales per Theater: $1,562
Metacritic Score: 8.9
IMDb Average: 8.2
Box Office Rank: #18
Weeks in Release: 12 | Last Week's Rank: 10
BUZZ SCORE: 22.96 | Official Site
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The Family Stone
Average Sales per Theater: $5,077
Metacritic Score: 55
IMDb Average: 6.5
Box Office Rank: #3
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
BUZZ SCORE: 22.88 | Official Site
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12 (tie)
Pride and Prejudice
Average Sales per Theater: $1,384
Metacritic Score: 82
IMDb Average: 7.5
Box Office Rank: #11
Weeks in Release: 6 | Last Week's Rank: 8
BUZZ SCORE: 22.08 | Official Site
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12 (tie)
Walk the Line
Average Sales per Theater: $1,384
Metacritic Score: 72
IMDb Average: 8.0
Box Office Rank: #6
Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 9
BUZZ SCORE: 22.08 | Official Site
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Peter Jackson's epic King Kong stomped over the competition this week with a fistful of strong reviews and #1 box office rank. It's the second week in a row that a well-received big budget movie was able to outbuzz the season's awards darling Brokeback Mounatin, which again scaled above all other films for the highest average sales per theater.
The Producers enters the chart at #5. Fans of the Broadway show may have rushed to see it in New York, but with less than shining reviews, this musical -- like Rent -- can consider itself already out of the Oscar race.
Holiday flick The Family Stone also disappointed critics. The ensemble cast attracted folks in the Christmas spirit, but in its first week couldn't even outbuzz Capote, which after 12 weeks in release finds itself at an impressive #18 box office rank.
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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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The highest possible Buzz Score is 36.00. A movie's total score is determined by adding up points the following categories:
Average Sales per Theater (10 Points): This number is taken by simply dividing the Average Sales per Theater figure by 1000. Films that exceed an average of $10,000 are assigned the maximum 10 points. Also, films that do not earn more than $1,000 per theater do not qualify for the buzz chart.
Metacritic Score (10 Points): The film's Metacritic score divided by 10.
IMDb Score (10 Points): The film's IMDb score.
Box Office Rank (6 Points): The #1 ranked movie in total box office sales receives 6 points. #2 gets 5.9 points. #3 get 5.8. The pattern continues all the way to #60, which receives 0.1 points.
Additional notes: Movies that only appear in specialty theaters, such as IMAX and specific foreign language theaters, do not qualify. The Positive Buzz Chart is also limited to films that reach the Top 60.
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Next week's most likely films to reach the chart:
Munich
Cache (Hidden)
Fun with Dick and Jane
White Countess
The Matador
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