Moonrise Kingdom Makes Box Office History with Record-Breaking Limited Debut

Moonrise Kingdom

1:09 pm, May 28th, 2012

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It may not be The Avengers, but Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom made box office history over Memorial Day Weekend.

The independent feature (watch trailer here) — with an ensemble including Bill Murray, Edward Norton and Bruce Willis — reportedly earned a record-breaking $130,000-per-theater average in limited release, toppling the $126,000 mark set by Dreamgirls in 2006.

If the numbers hold up, it would give Moonrise Kingdom the best-ever opening (average) for a live-action movie.

Brokeback Mountain debuted to a then-record $109,000 average in 2005, and last summer’s surprise hit Midnight in Paris opened to $99,000.

By way of comparison, box office goliath The Avengers earned roughly $48,000 per theater in its first weekend this month — but did so in more than 4,300 locations.

Men In Black 3 won the overall holiday weekend box office with a $70 million haul in multiplexes.

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