Some Numbers for 'Pawn Sacrifice'

The movie 'Pawn Sacrifice' -- some folks call it a 'biopic' -- has been out for over a month now. How is it doing at the box office?

Source: boxofficemojo.com/movies/id=pawnsacrifice

Let's do some guesstimates: domestic gross $2.410.166 at $10 per ticket gives around 240.000 keen chess players in the USA. (Who else would want to see it at the first opportunity? Perhaps their significant others, but that cancels out the players who haven't seen it yet.) So far I've featured the film in one post...

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...while the Jim West On Chess blog has been somewhat more active in following its progress:-

• 2010-04-20: Preview of "Pawn Sacrifice" Script
• 2012-10-29: Shopping "Pawn Sacrifice"
• 2013-08-31: "Pawn Sacrifice" into Production This Year
• 2013-11-15: Conrad Pla Joins "Pawn Sacrifice" Cast
• 2014-07-24: "Pawn Sacrifice" at 2014 TIFF
• 2014-09-05: World Premiere of "Pawn Sacrifice" at TIFF
• 2014-09-14: Distributor and Premiere for "Pawn Sacrifice"
• 2015-02-05: "Pawn Sacrifice" Release Date 9/18/2015
• 2015-02-13: "Pawn Sacrifice" at Bleecker Street Welcome
• 2015-04-15: "Pawn Sacrifice" Wallpaper
• 2014-05-11: Score for Film "Pawn Sacrifice"
• 2015-05-23: "Pawn Sacrifice" Poster
• 2015-05-28: "Pawn Sacrifice" Trailer
• 2015-06-03: Reviews of "Pawn Sacrifice" Trailer
• 2015-07-08: Montreal and Brooklyn in "Pawn Sacrifice"
• 2015-07-20: "Pawn Sacrifice" on Facebook
• 2015-07-30: "Pawn Sacrifice" Motion Poster
• 2015-08-12: "Pawn Sacrifice" Clip
• 2015-08-16: Images from "Pawn Sacrifice"
• 2015-08-19: Maguire as Fischer in "Pawn Sacrifice"
• 2015-08-20: "Pawn Sacrifice" Featurette
• 2015-08-23: Private Showing of "Pawn Sacrifice"
• 2015-08-29: Facts Sacrificed in "Pawn Sacrifice"
• 2015-08-31: e-mail from Ginny Hoffmann
• 2015-09-06: "Pawn Sacrifice" Soundtrack to be Released
• 2015-09-11: "WSJ" Review of "Pawn Sacrifice"
• 2015-09-13: "LA Times" Review of "Pawn Sacrifice"
• 2015-09-21: GM Soltis Discusses "Pawn Sacrifice" on NPR
• 2015-10-09: Reviews of "Pawn Sacrifice"
• 2015-10-17: "Pawn Sacrifice" in "The New Yorker"
• 2015-10-23: "Pawn Sacrifice" in "The Cornell Daily Sun"
• 2015-10-25: "Pawn Sacrifice" in "The Harvard Crimson"

I count 32 JWOC posts -- the number of pieces at the start of a chess game -- although I might have missed a few posts. If you want more reviews, see Pawn Sacrifice - Movie Reviews on RottenTomatoes.com; they give the move a 71% fresh rating. Can't sniff at that!

[Disclaimer: Living in Belgium, I haven't seen the flick yet. Which European TV channel will air it first? I might have to wait until it turns up on Netflix.]