Werner Herzog's ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD did something completely unexpected last weekend - and almost unheard of these days - when it actually increased its box office take in its second weekend at the Film Forum in New York. It was another piece of welcome good news for THINKFilm.
Second week totals were also strong for Guy Maddin's MY WINNIPEG and Guido Santi & Tina Mascara's CHRIS AND DON: A LOVE STORY.
Here's the 2008 Nonfiction Box Office through this past weekend:
1. U23D (National Geographic) $ 8,531,070
2. EXPELLED: NO INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED (Rocky) $ 7,614,754
3. SHINE A LIGHT (Paramount Vantage) $ 5,355,376
4. YOUNG@HEART (Fox Searchlight) $ 3,311,611
5. UP THE YANGTZE (Zeitgeist/Kino) ~ $ 706,000
6. VINCE VAUGHN'S WILD WEST... (Picturehouse) $ 603,894
7. WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA... (Weinstein) $ 384,955
8. TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE (THINKFilm) $ 274,661
9. PLANET B-BOY (Elephant Eye) $ 273,870
10. STEEP (SPC) $ 260,586
11. THE SINGING REVOLUTION (Abramorama) $ 238,040
12. BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER* (Magnolia) $ 216,748
13. STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (SPC) $ 208,834
14. SURFWISE (Magnolia) $ 177,980
15. CHICAGO 10 (Roadside Attractions) $ 174,624
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