Bad news, encouraging news: Doug McGrath‘s Infamous (Warner Independent), the second Truman Capote-writes-In Cold Blood movie, opened weakly yesterday in a limited 179-theatre break. $120,000 cume and $600 per print average yesterday — an expected $411,000 and a $2295 per-screen average by Sunday night. These numbers may not sound tragic, but in industry eyes this means it pretty much opened and closed. Stephen Frears‘ The Queen (Miramax), on the other hand, expanded from 11 to 46 screens and will have about $937,000 by Sunday night, not counting last week’s take. It’s doing very well, and will probably continue to do so for a good while. Not to mention the bump that will happen with Mirren gets her Best Actress nomination.
