Spain Box Office for Chavela (2017)

← Go to main Chavela page

Chavela
Theatrical Performance (US$)
Spain Box Office $59,999Details
Worldwide Box Office $243,176Details
Home Market Performance
North America DVD Sales $48,726 Details
Total North America Video Sales $48,726
Further financial details...

  1. Summary
  2. News
  3. Box Office
  4. Worldwide
  5. Full Financials
  6. Cast & Crew
  7. Trailer

Synopsis

A look at the unconventional life of beloved performer Chavela Vargas, whose passionate renditions of Mexican popular music and triumphant return to the stage late in life brought her international fame. Born in Costa Rica in 1919, Chavela Vargas ran away to Mexico City as a teenager to sing in the streets. By the 1950s, she became a household name in her adopted country, delivering her performances with a raw passion and unique voice. Just as influential were her cultural contributions; Chavela was a bold, rebellious, sexual pioneer who was known for having many female lovers at a time when being out in Mexico was dangerous. Chavela centers around a 1991 interview—the singer’s first public appearance after 15 hard years lost to alcoholism and heartbreak. In the final years of her life, Chavela openly comes out as a lesbian and rises into her momentous third act, becoming a muse to filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, earning a Lifetime Achievement Grammy, and selling out performances at prestigious concert halls around the world.

Metrics

Movie Details

Spain Releases: June 16th, 2017 (Wide)
Video Release: January 2nd, 2018 by Music Box Films Video
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Running Time: 93 minutes
Keywords: 1990s, Biography, Artists, Singers
Source:Based on Real Life Events
Genre:Documentary
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Factual
Production/Financing Companies: Aubin Pictures, National Endowment for the Arts, Centro Costarricense de Produccion, Cinematografica del Ministerio de Cultura y Juventud, IFP, Women in Film Film Finishing Fund, The Arch and Bruce Foundation, Frameline Completion Fund, Mexican Cultural Institute New York
Production Countries: Mexico, Spain, United States
Languages: English, Spanish

Home Market Releases for January 2nd, 2018

January 2nd, 2018

Lucky

This is the first Tuesday of the year, so it should be no surprise that there are not a lot of top-tier releases on this week’s list. In fact, there were so few releases worth mentioning that I had to pad the list with some films that were not selling well enough to be worth mentioning during most weeks. As for the Pick of the Week contenders, there were only two: Lucky and Battle of the Sexes. It was a close race, but in the end, I gave that title to Lucky on DVD. More...

Theater Averages: Something Good Comes out of Florida

October 11th, 2017

The Florida Project

The Florida Project dominated the theater average chart earning over $150,000 in four theaters for an average of $39,208. This is easily the best new release of the week. More...

Limited and VOD Releases: Better Watch these Limited Releases

October 6th, 2017

Better Watch Out

It is a very busy week for limited releases with over 30 films coming out this week. Needless to say we’ve had to be a little callous, culling the list to a more manageable number. We are still left with a number of films that have a shot at finding a receptive audience. Some of these are like Better Watch Out, which will struggle in theaters, but very likely do well on Video on Demand. Others, like The Florida Project, could see its strong reviews turn to Awards Season success and that will be a boon to its financial success. More...

Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeScreensPer ScreenTotal GrossWeek
2017/06/16 25 $8,762   12 $730   $8,762 1
2017/06/23 28 $6,682 -24% 11 $607   $25,387 2
2017/06/30 29 $4,736 -29% 9 $526   $37,099 3
2017/07/07 - $2,640 -44% 5 $528   $43,692 4
2017/07/14 - $965 -63% 4 $241   $47,177 5
2017/07/21 - $1,205 +25% 3 $402   $50,360 6
2017/07/28 - $1,597 +33% 6 $266   $53,917 7
2017/08/04 - $561 -65% 4 $140   $56,580 8
2017/08/11 - $937 +67% 3 $312   $59,864 9
2017/08/18 - $556 -41% 4 $139   $60,862 10
2017/08/25 - $57 -90% 1 $57   $62,169 11
2017/09/01 - $1,130 +1,882% 3 $377   $63,759 12
2017/09/08 - $275 -76% 2 $138   $65,544 13
2017/09/15 - $128 -53% 2 $64   $65,320 14
2017/09/22 - $42 -67% 1 $42   $65,562 15

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Argentina 6/8/2018 $0 0 0 0 $8,384 1/1/2019
Netherlands 8/24/2018 $13,696 21 21 21 $15,162 8/31/2018
North America 10/4/2017 $22,453 4 14 58 $148,666
Portugal 4/6/2018 $1,810 1 2 6 $10,965 5/11/2018
Spain 6/16/2017 $8,762 12 12 73 $59,999 10/24/2017
 
Worldwide Total$243,176 1/1/2019

Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue are available through our research services. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com.

Documentary Subject(s)

Chavela Vargas    Herself

Interviewee(s)

Pedro Almodovar    Himself
Elena Benarroch    Herself
Miguel Bose    Himself
Alicia Elena Perez Duarte    Herself
Liliana Felipe    Herself
Patria Jimenez Flores    Herself
Laura Garcia-Lorca    Herself
Martirio Gira    Herself
Mariana Gyalui    Herself

For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.

Production and Technical Credits

Catherine Gund    Director
Darsha Kyi    Director
Catherine Gund    Producer
Darsha Kyi    Producer
Catherine Gund    Cinematographer
Natalia Cuevas    Cinematographer
Carla Gutierrez    Editor
Hajer Salem    Assistant Editor
Gil Talmi    Composer
Lynda Weinman    Executive Producer
Bruce Heavin    Executive Producer
Pepita Serrano    Co-Producer
Agnes Gund    Co-Producer
Laura Tatham    Associate Producer
Laura Pilloni    Associate Producer