Since the above films were released before August 2005, I think it is better to be able to make fair comparisons with films released around the same time, rather than with films released much later. include the Thursday gross in the weekend figure, you can make a more fair comparison with films released after August 2005, but you make it less fair for films released on a Friday before August 2005. Few films actually were released earlier than the official weekend starting day, so this is a method that attempts to 'satisfy' a minority of films at the expense of the majority. If you do option (a), you obviously have to do that with all films, regardless of whether they were released before or after August 2005, but it just creates a complete mess, since comparisons become unfair and inconsistent.

This is an issue for few films, such as 'The Matrix Reloaded', 'Harry Potter the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'Spider-Man 2' and 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, which all opened on a Wednesday before August 2005.

What should we do with films released before August 2005 that opened on a Thursday or a Wednesday? Should we include the Thrusday gross in the opening weekend figure? ANSWER: Well, there is one of three ways to look at this: You can either (a) define the opening weekend as all admissions sold up to the film's first Sunday, which is what Box Office Mojo does for 'overseas opening weekends' OR (b) you can just stick to the official 3-day weekend for films released before Augsut 2005 OR (c) add solely the Thursday gross to the weekend figure, but not Wednesday or any earlier days. In order to make it a fair comparison, should we remove the Thursday gross for films released after August 2005? ANSWER: Well for most films we don't have daily grosses anyway since distributors just report the 4-day figure usually.

Notes: Before August 2005, films were traditionally released on a Friday, hence the 3-day figures above, whereas after that date, the official opening day was moved to Thursday, hence the 4-day figures above. This obviously creates some valid questions: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Loufa kai Parallagi: Seirines sto Aigaio Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest This chart will never be perfect, but if there are any glaring omissions or mistakes, let me know what you think. I feel that this is the best I could do to get numbers that are closest to the truth. FreeCinema says 'LOTR1' sold 782,709 admissions. The numebr for 'LOTR1' comes from the CINEMA magazine. FreeCinema puts it at 857,926 admissions. 'Big Fat Greek Wedding's' number has been reported by at least two reliable sources ( and CINEMA magazine). 'Gladiator' and 'LOTR2' are nowhere to be found on FreeCinema's Top 10 list. 'Safe Sex' – Other reports put it at 1.5 million or 1.4 million admissions.Ĭine.gr says that 'Troy' reached 950,000 admissions, but FreeCinema's number (916K) seems more plausible.

'A Touch of Spice' – Other reports put it at 1.6, 1.5 or 1.3 million admissions. , which has weekly data, stopped tracking 'Politiki Kouzina' when it had earned 1,255,000 admissions. It the real number isn't 1.9 million, it should still be above 1.5 million admissions. Other sources put it at 1.85 million admissions.įor positions 2-5, FreeCinema has slightly lower estimates for all four films, but the order remains the same. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingįreeCinema puts 'Titanic's' total at 1,208,373 admissions, which sounds outrageous to me. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Some data, as you can see, are missing from the source.

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