Information taken from Brandon Gray's
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
13 11 Horton Hears a Who $367,734 -23.0%% 428 -60 $859 $152,571,420
125 105 Chicago 10 $81 -92.7%% 1 -1 $81 $173,927
It appears that "Persepolis" has left theaters, ending with a total North
American boxoffice of $4,445,756, with an overseas box office of $17,303,640.
I enjoyed the movie, though I didn't think it was good as its biggest fans
asserted. Like "The Triplets of Belleville", it was something different from
U.S. family cartoons, animes, and motion capture movies. It's always best to
encourage variety in the medium. Maybe motivated by its BAF Oscar nomination,
Sony Picture classics ultimate gave it a distribution large enough that it
even reached Greenville, SC's main multiplex, and then played at the dollar
multiplex at Spartanburg. It was encouraging to see a studio get that much
behind a non mainstream cartoon movie.
For the Memorial Day weekend I went to see "Chicago 10". That movie
never got very much distribution, but wouldn't you know it, it showed up in
Columbia, SC. Thanks a whole bunch to the Nickelodeon theater.
http://www.nickelodeon.org
That's a non-profit theater run by University of South Carolina-Columbia
students out of an old building. Just one small room, but at least they can
bring a few movies that you wouldn't expect to find...
