From: Nicholas Jarecki To: Nicholas Jarecki Subject: Arbitrage -- Victory Lap... but it's only the beginning! Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:10:06 +0000 Attachments: PastedGraphic-1.tiff Inline-Images: 16resident-blog480.jpeg Dear Friends, Supporters & Smart and Funny People-- What a weekend for Arbitrage! The results are in... and I'm really happy to share them with you: Arbitrage is a hit with critics and audiences alike. At the conclusion of the weekend, and thanks to you guys who turned out in overwhelming numbers to theaters, living rooms, and the intemet alike, I'm happy to report that: Arbitrage is the number 3 highest grossing new movie released this week (after Resident Evil 5 and Finding Nemo 3D, each of which cost over 100MM to make and market) It's also the number 11 movie in all of America, with a projected gross of 2.1 Million, averaging nearly 11,000 per screen. That's the highest per screen average in the country (excluding "The Master" which only played on 5 screens). We have a lead of more than 40% on Resident Evil which managed 7,000 on its 3012 screens. Now 2.1 million is a lot of money, but in movie terms it doesn't sound like that much. Here's what's amazing-- We are only on 195 screens! That's right, Arbitrage is number 11 on 195 screens-- but numbers 1-10 (and including number 10 at a gross of 2.4 million) are playing on a minimum of 2,000 screens! We are about a hundred thousand dollars away from a movie playing in 10x the amount of theaters we are. Now that should be enough good news for one email, but I've got more-- We have reached a rotten tomatoes score of 84%, and an iTunes rating of **** stars, with over 200 reviews counted. Tomorrow I'll know more about the video-on-demand gross numbers, but for now we can safely assume they are in the half to two million dollar range. When you combine this all together, we're grossing somewhere around 3 million or more, which would put us closer to being number 4 for the w