I've seen $ 10,000, or even $ 20,000 per screen average for a weekend, as reported in Boxofficemojo, while normally it's $ 5,000 - $ 10,000 for big Hollywood films. At times, I've seen even higher #s but can't remember what they were.

Now, I noticed a weekend per screen average of $ 67,000 for India themed DARJEELING LIMITED which made me wonder what's the highest per screen average for any film so far ??

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Darjeeling Ltd is playing in Cumberland theatre Toronto, 8 shows daily.

Darjeeling Ltd has been getting rave reviews. In Today's National Post, Post Movies section has Full Page Picture covering this film and another half page, inside, with its review. Gave it 4 stars (don't know if out of 4 or 5).

BTW, review also mentions of a 13 min short film "Hotel Chevalier" that should have been part of this film but is not in. It's said to be avail on the net.

Hotel Chevalier is available for free on iTunes.

Don't forget, DARJEELING was only on 2 screens that weekend.

Here's a list of top theater weekend averages:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/we ... teravg.htm

This has become quite a common phenomenon as studios try to limit theaters to just a few for higher profile limited release films. However, the bad thing is this example that I saw in action for a film in limited release (FIERCE PEOPLE) last month:
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I was in line buying my tix for another movie when I saw a woman buy close to 200 tix for this Griffin Dunne movie! It was obvious too that she was prob. part of some marketing department or something b/c she seemed a little fidgety, plus she was buying really random combinations (50 seniors for the noon show, 25 adults, for the 4pm show, et al.). I saw no group of people anywhere, plus I think one of the shows had already started anyway. She charged them all and everyone in line got to watch the machine spit out a whole endless row of tickets. Very odd....so we'll now know that if the weekend grosses seem a bit high on Monday, we can attribute it to these folks buying out the seats.

So not all boffo limited weekend averages are a good thing.

rana are you going to watch Darjeeling Ltd anytime soon ? when you see the movie would you kindly put your review of it at my thread here ? thanks
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Sure.

Looks like, Darjeeling Ltd is running in the art circuit, one city at a time. I guess, it'll make to Ottawa in 7-8 weeks for 10-15 shows, that's when I'll get to watch this film. Just for the nostalgia (Rail journeys) sake.



Wow! That link gives mind boggling per screen opening weekend figures. Lion King made close to $ 800,000 per theatre (not sure if it's same as per screen). Darjeeling Ltd is just $ 67,500 per screen. Still not bad.

I wonder, what kind of ticket pricing that must be for that $ 800,000 collections for a weekend ?? Say, 8 shows daily Fri Sat Sunday with a 800 capacity, implying an average ticket price of over $ 40 ??

Ajy1, you mentioned someone buying tickrts in bulk, were you referring to Darjeeling Ltd, Fierce People or for some other film ??

Yeah sorry I meant FIERCE PEOPLE. I was just shocked at seeing how brazen the whole ticket buying thing was. The sad thing is that the opening weekend figure was $10K plus....which led to a few more theaters picking it up before the film went away.

The thing to keep in mind is that with some of those Disney engagements....they were featured in the LA theater where there's a stage show playing with it. That makes the ticket prices go up quite a bit. Also I remember that the opening DREAMGIRLS weekend was much higher in price too.