2004 SUNDANCE THEATRICAL BOX OFFICE CHART
The chart below is a list of U.S. independent features from the 2004 Sundance Film Festival that were released theatrically in the past year.
Box office figures are as of December 31, 2004. The budget estimates are just that — estimates. Culled from previously published reports, interviews with the filmmakers or, in many cases, simply our own best guesses, these numbers may not reflect the finishing costs needed to take some of these films from their festival release to your local theater. In other cases, published reports may overstate for various reasons the cost of film and, lacking other information, we’ve gone with the published number.
Asterisked films were still playing in their main theatrical runs at press time. Particularly, films like The Motorcycle Diaries and The Machinist are hoping to boost their box office with year-end awards recognition.
A “Festival” column tracks which Sundance films also played the following key international festivals: Berlin (B), Cannes (C), New York (N), New Directors/New Films (ND), Toronto (T), Rotterdam (R) and Venice (V).
As always, note that domestic box-office gross is just one indicator of a film’s overall financial performance. Also, box-office grosses are highly dependent on advertising commitments and release patterns. Some of these films garnered their dollars from a relatively small number of screens while others played much wider. Some received only perfunctory theatrical releases designed to trigger video, TV and foreign sales. And still others were films whose releases were halted after they underperformed in early key markets.
| FILM TITLE | EST.
BUDGET (in millions) | DISTRIBUTOR | FESTS | DOMESTIC
BOX OFFICE (in millions) |
| BAADASSSSS! | 1.0 | SONY PICTURES CLASSICS | B, T | 0.37 |
| BORN INTO BROTHELS* | 0.4 | THINKFILM | 0.04 | |
| BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS | NA | THINKFILM | T | 0.93 |
| BROTHER TO BROTHER | 0.6 | WOLFE VIDEO | B | 0.04 |
| THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT | 13.0 | NEW LINE | 57.79 | |
| THE CLEARING | NA | FOX SEARCHLIGHT | 5.76 | |
| CONTROL ROOM | NA | MAGNOLIA PICTURES | ND | 2.59 |
| DIG! | NA | PALM PICTURES | ND | 0.13 |
| DOGVILLE | 10.0 | LIONS GATE | C, T | 1.54 |
| THE DREAMERS | 15.0 | 20TH CENTURY FOX | V | 2.53 |
| EULOGY | 10.0 | LIONS GATE | 0.07 | |
| THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS | NA | KOCH LORBER | T | 0.16 |
| GARDEN STATE* | 2.5 | FOX SEARCHLIGHT | 26.73 | |
| HOME OF THE BRAVE | NA | EMERGING PICTURES | 0.005 | |
| HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT | NA | REGENT RELEASING | 0.37 | |
| IMELDA | NA | UNITEL PICTURES INT’L | 0.19 | |
| LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF* | NA | SUBMARINE ENTERTAINMENT | R, T | 0.007 |
| THE MACHINIST* | 5.0 | PARAMOUNT CLASSICS | T | 0.98 |
| MARIA FULL OF GRACE | 3.5 | FINE LINE | B | 6.53 |
| MEAN CREEK* | 0.5 | PARAMOUNT CLASSICS | 0.59 | |
| METALLICA... | 4.3 | IFC FILMS | 1.23 | |
| THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES* | NA | FOCUS FEATURES | C, T | 15.36 |
| NAPOLEON DYNAMITE* | 0.4 | FOX SEARCHLIGHT | 44.29 | |
| NEVER DIE ALONE | 2.5 | FOX SEARCHLIGHT | 5.64 | |
| OPEN WATER | 0.13 | LIONS GATE | 30.55 | |
| PRIMER* | 0.047 | THINKFILM | T | 0.42 |
| THE RASPBERRY REICH | 0.07 | STRAND RELEASING | B, T | 0.03 (NYC ONLY) |
| RIDING GIANTS | 2.6 | SONY PICTURES CLASSICS | 2.28 | |
| THE SADDEST MUSIC... | 2.89 | IFC FILMS | R, T | 0.70 |
| SAVED! | 5.0 | MGM | 8.94 | |
| SAW* | 1.2 | LIONS GATE | T | 55.15 |
| SUPER SIZE ME | .065 | GOLDWYN/ROADSIDE | 11.54 | |
| TARNATION* | 0.40 | WELLSPRING MEDIA | C, N, T | 0.46 |
| TOUCH OF PINK | NA | SONY PICTURES CLASSICS | 0.56 | |
| WE DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE | 3.0 | WARNER INDEPENDENT | 2.04 | |
| WORD WARS | NA | SEVENTH ART RELEASING | 0.11 | |
| THE YES MEN | NA | UNITED ARTISTS | T | 0.25 |
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