The Steve Jobs movie was released in 4 theaters in New York and Los Angeles last weekend, but recorded one record receipts for a release weekend in 2015, something hard to imagine before its appearance.
The four cinemas where the movie Steve Jobs was released recorded ticket sales of approximately $130.000 each this weekend, an absolute record for 2015 regardless of what kind of film we are talking about, those from Universal having a potential blockbuster in their hands.
This weekend's $130.000 per theater gross compares to the average per-theater gross of movies released in a weekend this year, Sicario having the highest amount so far, of 67.000 dollars, the movie Steve Jobs doubling this figure in 3 days.
If we look at the year 2014, only the movies The Grand Budapest Hotel si American Sniper recorded higher receipts per theater during the release weekend, totaling 202.000 dollars and 158.000 dollars respectively, the films also winning several Oscar awards.
To put it into perspective, the previous high-water mark for per-screen averages this year has been Sicarioat $67,000+. In 2014, only four movies managed to top $100,000 per screen in a given weekend: The Grand Budapest Hotel ($202,000+ on March 7-9), Birdman ($106,000+ on October 17-19), The Imitation Game ($119,000+ on November 28-30), and American Sniper ($158,000+ on December 26-28.
Just like the iPhones launched by Apple, the movie Steve Jobs has an extremely strong release, doubling the best receipts for a film released in 2015, and this gives Universal to understand that they could have enormous receipts in the coming weeks.
The Steve Jobs movie will be released in the rest of the US theaters this Friday, and will be available in other geographic areas on October 23, so it will be extremely interesting to see how much money it will generate for Universal based on what what we see now
