The Optimists
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."
Date | Rank | Weekly | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Avg | To Date | Week |
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Sep 28-Oct 4 | 2 | $8,030 | - | - | - | - | $8,030 | 1 |
Oct 5-11 | 5 | $3,103 | -61.4% | - | - | - | $11,023 | 2 |
Oct 12-18 | 8 | $890 | -71.3% | - | - | - | $11,913 | 3 |
Oct 19-25 | 10 | $657 | -26.2% | - | - | - | $12,557 | 4 |
Oct 26-Nov 1 | 14 | $412 | -37.3% | - | - | - | $12,969 | 5 |
Nov 2-8 | 9 | $882 | +114.1% | - | - | - | $14,476 | 6 |
Nov 9-15 | 12 | $635 | -28% | - | - | - | $15,111 | 7 |
Nov 23-29 | 10 | $767 | - | - | - | - | $16,686 | 9 |
Nov 30-Dec 6 | 20 | $276 | -64% | - | - | - | $16,990 | 10 |
Dec 7-13 | 17 | $267 | -3.3% | - | - | - | $17,187 | 11 |