The Positive Buzz Chart
Calculating the Weekend Box Office's Hottest Tickets |
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January 9, 2006 (Updated every Monday night) |
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1
Brokeback Mountain
Average Sales per Theater: $11,856
Metacritic Score: 87
IMDb Average: 7.9
Box Office Rank: #8
Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 1
BUZZ SCORE: 31.90 | Official Site
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Match Point
Average Sales per Theater: $8,912
Metacritic Score: 72
IMDb Average: 8.1
Box Office Rank: #15
Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 5
BUZZ SCORE: 28.81 | Official Site
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Cache (Hidden)
Average Sales per Theater: $13,851
Metacritic Score: 85
IMDb Average: 7.5
Box Office Rank: #35
Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 6
BUZZ SCORE: 28.60 | Official Site
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Hostel
Average Sales per Theater: $8,909
Metacritic Score: 57
IMDb Average: 6.5
Box Office Rank: #1
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
BUZZ SCORE: 27.11 | Official Site
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5
Transamerica
Average Sales per Theater: $10,191
Metacritic Score: 67
IMDb Average: 8.0
Box Office Rank: #37
Weeks in Release: 6 | Last Week's Rank: 9
BUZZ SCORE: 27.10 | Official Site
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Fateless
Average Sales per Theater: $12,680
Metacritic Score: 92
IMDb Average: 6.6
Box Office Rank: #53
Weeks in Release: 1 | Last Week's Rank: --
BUZZ SCORE: 26.60 | Official Site
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Munich
Average Sales per Theater: $5,095
Metacritic Score: 74
IMDb Average: 7.8
Box Office Rank: #6
Weeks in Release: 3 | Last Week's Rank: 3
BUZZ SCORE: 25.80 | Official Site
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King Kong
Average Sales per Theater: $3,625
Metacritic Score: 81
IMDb Average: 7.9
Box Office Rank: #3
Weeks in Release: 4 | Last Week's Rank: 2
BUZZ SCORE: 25.43 | Official Site
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The Matador
Average Sales per Theater: $8,324
Metacritic Score: 65
IMDb Average: 7.3
Box Office Rank: #28
Weeks in Release: 2 | Last Week's Rank: 11
BUZZ SCORE: 25.42 | Official Site
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10
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Average Sales per Theater: $4,451
Metacritic Score: 75
IMDb Average: 7.3
Box Office Rank: #2
Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 4
BUZZ SCORE: 25.15 | Official Site
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Mrs. Henderson Presents
Average Sales per Theater: $7,644
Metacritic Score: 70
IMDb Average: 7.0
Box Office Rank: #31
Weeks in Release: 5 | Last Week's Rank: 8
BUZZ SCORE: 24.64 | Official Site
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Capote
Average Sales per Theater: $2,562
Metacritic Score: 88
IMDb Average: 8.2
Box Office Rank: #24
Weeks in Release: 15 | Last Week's Rank: --
BUZZ SCORE: 23.26 | Official Site
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While Brokeback Mountain continues to reign at the top of the buzz chart, the rest of the list seems to be affected by a post-holiday jumble. Theater averages significantly dropped for big budget critical favorites like Munich and King Kong, clearly room for well-received limited releases like Cache and Match Point near the top of the chart.
Lots of folks checked into see the Quentin Tarantino-branded Hostel in its opening week. The week's only other debut was the imported Holocaust film Fateless, which enters the chart at an impressive #6.
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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:
Tristan & Isolde
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