Subject: Re: FWWM: box office news
From: v075q5fr@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Date: 1992-08-31, 09:10
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1992Aug30.221102.11199@morrow.stanford.edu>, steve@sep.Stanford.EDU (Steve Cole) writes...
>From one of the clari newsgroups:
> > 
>> >>The weekend's other major opening, New Lines' ``Twin Peaks: Fire Walk
>> >>with Me'' failed to generate much heat in eighth place with an estimated
>> >>$1.9 million at 691 screens. The movie brings to the big screen the
>> >>continuing saga of TV's offbeat ``Twin Peaks'' series set in a mythical
>> >>Northwest town.

     Break that down to a per-screen average, please.  Despite what
     that .clari newsgroup said, this isn't bad for 700 screens.  
     Read VARIETY instead.

> >Considering that Pet Sematary II opened in 3rd place with around
> >$5-6 million, this isn't very good news.

     No, it is decent news: PET SEMATARY 2 opened at 2000 screens and only
     did a little more than double the business of TWIN PEAKS... on more
     than half the screens, with legions of maniacal zit-faced 16 year
     olds in need of a gore-fix...  

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