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“La Soga” had it’s first weekend at the box office and it performed like a champion. The movie played only  at 11 theaters and it showed some muscle. In fact, the movie had a higher average per theater count ($4,778) (that is you take the amount made over the weekend and divide it by the number of theaters at which it played) than these big Hollywood heavy hitters: Inception $3,617, The Other Guys $4,768, Step Up 3D $2,831 and Salt $2,831. We should also point out that all these movies I just mentioned, with the exception of Step up 3D, had budgets of well over 100 million dollars. Even better, out the top 10 movies at the box office this weekend, only The Expendables ($10,650) and  Eat Pray Love ($7,497) had a higher average per theater than La Soga. Just to give you an idea, if La Soga had played in just 1,000 theaters, the movie would have grossed $4,778,000 million! It is also important to note that all the movies in the top 10 at the box offices this weekend played in at least 2,000 theaters, with the exception of Toy Story which played in just over 1,200 theaters, and some played in as many as 3,651 (The Other Guys). So congratulations to Manny Perez and his team! The movie showed that if it were to expand to more theaters, it would be huge.

You can read the full box office report here,

You can also check out La Soga in Box Office mojo right here