The early Friday Box Office estimates are out, and it looks as though Black Swan pulled in around $300k. It should get close to $1 million for the weekend, which is incredibly strong for such a limited release – just 18 theatres.
UPDATE – Make that $420k. Here’s what Dave Poland had to say.
Black Swan is looking at the best exclusive release numbers of 2010 with what looks to be an over $70k per screen for the weekend in 14 screens. The number is very similar to the launch of Up In The Air last year… the biggest difference being that $84m domestic was a bit of a disappointment for the Clooney movie and would be an epic success for this low budget psycho thriller. (Headline suggestion for indieWIRE…. “Psycho Thriller, Qu’est-ce que c’est!!!”) When you look at this month, Black Swan could be the Juno of the season for Searchlight, meaning that it could become the must-see movie for girls in a market that is light of fare for them.
And I think part of that is because of Terry Malick for “The Tree of Life” trailer.
I saw a cam quality version of it and OMG!!!!!!!
1 million dollars for the weekend in 8 cities and 18 theatres.Wait untill it is release in the rest of the states and international,it will easy be the high grossing film of those films considered for the oscars,which is good for Natalie’s and Darren Aronofsky’s chances to earn or even win the oscars awards for best actress and best director.
I don’t think it’ll do more than something like Kings Speech, but yeah, it should do very well for itself and that will only help its Oscar chances. They love a winner.
Awesome! I sooooooo want to see it this weekend. Sooooooooo much!
Indiewire is putting it higher in the 1.2-1.4 million range. Impressive.:
http://www.indiewire.com/article/2010/12/04/friday_box_office_black_swan_soars_on_opening_night
the movies only in 18 theaters????
just saw this
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-01/annette-bening-and-natalie-portman-will-face-off-in-the-oscar-race/?cid=sexybeast:featured7
(PS For some reason when I logged it , it had an invisible popup sending me to groupon.com 🙁
anyway, who would cop to seeing a cam version on a site like this. ? And your on your fourth tequila? Now then of course if your in a country where this movie will never been shown, that’s another issue.
LOL! What with the bloody toe nails and self mutilation and all, I really see this as becoming a must see movie for really arthouse type people or the straight up Hostel loving gore maniacs…definitely NOT the people who went to see Juno thr first day it came out.
Jen, its a tiered release pattern. Smaller films use it to spread the word/buzz as they can’t market and promote like films with huge budgets. Plus it helps to make sure the demand is there before rolling out into a lot of cities, which costs a lot of money.
Hi there are others photos of the premiere of black swan?