Daily Box Office for Friday, September 30, 2011

Daily Box Office for Friday, September 30, 2011

Minor surprise: no new film made the top three. The four new ones finished 4-7.

Major surprise: the film to come the closest to the top was Courageous, the blatantly religious cop film which is only in 1100 theaters. Courageous won the "gross per theater" category by a wide, wide margin, amassing about as much as the next two added together!

The Friday results don't seem to guarantee the final weekend finish. The top seven films were bunched tightly, within two million dollars of one another, so just about any one of them could emerge on top when the countin's done. Given its strength in family matinees, The Lion King may well remain in charge of the jungle.