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iMSON" "RAVEN" Top Grossers From American International !
'Welcome to the hit parade, MR. RAVEN, congratulations on your BLOCKBUSTING BUSINESS in NewYork and Los Angeles!"
"Samson" Records "Miracle" Crosses Despite Snow, Ice
American International's adventure spectacle, "Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World," despite the current cold wave and snowy weather sweeping the nation, is racking up record and near-record weekly grosses in all of its key opening engagements, according to AIP sales chief Leon P. Blender.
Biggest opening was in the Chicago multiple engagement where "Samson" grossed over $140,000 with below zero temperatures plaguing the Windy City. In Boston, San Francisco, Oakland, Buffalo and Denver, single house weekly grosses surpassed the $10,000 mark to best previous AIP highs for the same theaters — all in the face of cold and bad weather.
In Jacksonville, Florida and Madison, Wisconsin, AIP house records were broken by the Gordon Scott-starrer, while Norfolk, Virginia, and two San Jose, California, nouses exceeded .$9,000 for the color spectacle, according to Blender.
Some of the individual house figures for "Samson" follow:
Pilgrim Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts (1st week), $9,059.
Paramount Theatre, Buffalo, New York (1st week), $9,072.
Denver Theatre, Denver, Colorado (1st week), $9,247.
Fox Theatre, San Francisco, California (1st week), $9,746.
Paramount Theatre, Oakland, California (1st week), $8,858.
Smash LA., N.Y. Bows Zoom AIP's "Raven" To Flying Start at B.O..
American International's newest Edgar Allan Poe thriller, "The Raven,'' looms as the company's all-time boxoffice attraction as the Vincent Price — Peter Lorre — Boris Karloff starrer opens today in the San Francisco area on the heels of sensational opening grosses in the New York City and Los Angeles markets.
All the more impressive because of coincident record bad weather in both New York and L. A. were the following smash figures for these key situations:
In a 80-theater New York City multiple, "The Raven" chalked up over $325,0000.00 at the boxoffice, while the Poe thriller's Los Angeles gross neared $200,000 on the basis of incomplete preliminary returns as this paper went to press last night.
The New York opening "The Raven," the first engagement of the color and Panavision film, was given an extra boost by a flying two-day personal appearance tour of top Gotham houses by two of the pictures three top stars — Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff. Despite freezing weather and snow, the two veteran thespians completed their grueling p. a. schedule to the acclaim of cheering capacity throngs both inside and outside the New York theaters.
"The Raven" received an additional boost in both key spots and for all ensuing engagements through a record-breaking nationwide promotional-exploitation campaign highlighted by spectacular free plugs on more than half dozen of the top networK TV shows.
"Thank you, MR. SAMSON, it's delightful to follow in your GIANT BOXOFFICE
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