Budget: $10M
US gross: $16.5M with a lot more to come
Foreign gross: $80.4M
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Made for $10 million, "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" supplanted CBS Films' "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" this week as the highest grossing art house film domestically this year.
"It is the second best story of the summer after The Avengers,'" Jeff Bock, a box office analyst at Exhibitor Relations, told TheWrap. "It is one of those gems like ˜Little Miss Sunshine' that Fox Searchlight finds more often than not, and now it has a chance to play long into the summer."
The Piranha 3DD release is a mess. I read a week ago, it was pulled from it theatrical release all together, and was going to be released on Video on demand.
Now, its being released to both theatres and VOD. But it's only playing in 70 theatres though.