Fans of Kathleen Hanna (pictured) were likely the major factor in The Punk Singer taking the best per-screen average at the box office over the weekend. Opening on two screens in New York City (one of them in hip Williamsburg, Brooklyn) and one in Los Angeles, the doc about the riot grrrl icon made a total of $25k, which divided up as a little over $8k from each. IFC Films reports the films “sold out multiple shows” in both cities.
Bettering the newcomer overall, however, was Alex Gibney’s The Armstrong Lie, which grossed another $32k courtesy of a much wider release over 31 screens. Also doing well among the continuing titles are Michel Gondry’s Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?, which doubled its theater count for an additional $17k, Bettie Page Reveals All, which doubled up its theater count and total gross, and sleeper hit Generation Iron, which is now down to a single screen.
One other new release of note included on the weekend’s final chart is Peter Mettler’s The End of Time, which did decently on a single screen in New York City for more than $1k.
Here is the reported weekend box office for 11/29/13–12/01/13, including new and continuing releases:
1. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa — $1,766,420
2. The Armstrong Lie — $32,092
3. The Punk Singer — $24,729
4. Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? — $17,286
5. Muscle Shoals — $12,847
6. Bettie Page Reveals All — $8,344
7. Generation Iron — $5,100
8. 20 Feet From Stardom — $2,608
9. Inequality for All — $2,286
10. Narco Cultura — $2,257
11. Watermark — $2,096
12. The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology — $1,882
13. Good Ol’ Freda — $1,667
14. The End of Time — $1,468
15. When Comedy Went to School — $1,339
16 Fire in the Blood — $1,286
17. Sweet Dreams — $1,273
18. People of a Feather — $517
19. The Act of Killing — $324
20. Let the Fire Burn — $180
And here is the current top 25 doc box office for 2013 (note the changeover from millions to thousands):
- Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa — $99m ($135m worldwide)
- Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain — $32.2m
- One Direction: This Is Us — $28.9m ($66.6m worldwide)
- Hubble 3D (IMAX) — $4.9m
- 20 Feet From Stardom — $4.8m
- Metallica Through the Never — $3.4m
- Unstoppable — $3.2m
- To the Arctic (IMAX) — $2.9m
- Flying Monsters — $2.6m
- The Gatekeepers — $2.4m
- Blackfish — $2.1m
- Space Station 3D (IMAX) — $1.9m
- Stories We Tell — $1.6m
- Born to Be Wild (IMAX) — $1.56m
- Girl Rising — $1.53m
- Inequality for All — $1.2m
- Under the Sea 3D — $1.1m
— - Generation Iron — $822k
- 56 Up — $700k
- Searching For Sugar Man — $686k
- Deep Sea 3D (IMAX) — $668k
- Muscle Shoals — $635k
- Salinger — $576k
- Chasing Ice — $530k
- Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorfs — $510k
Data pulled from Box Office Mojo and IMDb and Deadline and The Numbers.
