I've had the chance to check out some more charts on Box Office Mojo, and there's more interesting news when it comes to DS' box office for last week. If it wasn't for the fact that
21 Jump Street's 74th day fell on the Memorial Day Holiday, chances are that DS would have been the top grossing film in its range of theaters compared to all of this year's films on their 74th day as well as all the films in its range of theaters last Monday. However, because of the holiday,
21 Jump Street came out ahead of DS, $108,241 vs. $103,693. But last Monday DS did beat out all the other other films in its range of theaters regardless of how many weeks they've been in release. The second place film was
Marvel's The Avengers with $98,364. And in fact, DS beat out that film on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It wasn't until Thursday that it was able to beat DS once again.
And as for rankings, it's looking like DS was 13th last Monday, 12th last Tuesday and Wednesday, and 14th last Thursday. And what really helped DS become 12th for the entire week was that during the weekend it ranked 11th on Friday, 10th on Saturday, and 12th on Sunday. Who would have thought we would have ever seen DS back in the Top 10?! I certainly didn't.
And finally, as far as a comparison to
Wrath of the Titans goes, it'll probably come as no surprised that DS trounced that film during the Monday-Thursday period as well. In its 11th Monday-Thursday,
Wrath of the Titans brought in $61,457, whereas DS brought in $442,326.
And to find a Monday-Thursday period when DS had brought in more than that, we'd have to go all the way back to its 5th week in release. Though in that week it was playing in 1,550 theaters - not just 412.
79 days 18 hours 35 minutes 40 seconds since the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows has been in release(ET)!!