It looks like it won’t be breaking any records:
Michael Moore’s Sicko health care documentary from The Weinstein Co looks like it won’t top his 2002 Bowling For Columbine. Though already in 8th place among documentary moneymakers, Sicko took in $3.5 mil from 702 theaters for a new cume of $11.3 mil. Though that’s only a 22% drop from last week, its per screen average has halved.
Update -
Reason Magazine with more:
It came in 9th at the box office this weekend and made less money than last weekend despite expanding from 441 to 702 screens. Its per-screen average was $5,199. Not awful, but not as good as Rescue Dawn, Transformers, or Joshua, and only marginally better than Live Free or Die Hard. It’s only the 8th highest-grossing documentary of all time, and the way things are going it’s unlikely it’ll do more than knock Madonna: Truth or Dare out of the 5th spot. Adjust for inflation and it wouldn’t even do that.
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We just hit the hottest point of the summer. I would expect that the numbers for SICKO will go up with the heat. However, since I won’t be able to see it before it is on DVD (allergy to popcorn), I can’t comment on anything but the reviews – and from those it sounds very simplistic.
I’ll find out soon enough.
Pax,
MLO
Go see Ratatouille if you want a movie that will make you yearn for France. Go to Tranformers if you want nonstop action. I know most Americans will not want to strain their brain too much this summer and I am not surprised Sicko is not a “hit”.
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