From Bella Promo Team:

Filed under: Uncategorized — Angela Santana at 5:08 pm on Monday, November 5, 2007

“BELLA had another amazing performance at the box office this weekend, giving us the momentum we need for a large expansion,” said executive producer Sean Wolfington. “Thanks to strong word-of-mouth support, BELLA will expand to nearly 50 new cities in the coming weeks. We couldn’t be happier or more thankful for the tremendous support audiences have shown BELLA thus far.”

* BELLA grossed over $1 million this weekend, maintaining its spot as the only film on less than 300 screens to rank in the top 20.
* BELLA’s per screen average of $5,381 “continued to surprise” according to IndieWire.com, finishing third behind new releases “American Gangster” and “Bee Movie”, both with estimated budgets in excess of $100 million.* BELLA continued to show resilience on Sunday, indicating abnormally strong word-of-mouth momentum from the previous two days. While every other film’s ticket sales declined by a minimum of 30% from Saturday to Sunday, BELLA dipped a mere 1.8%.

As a result of BELLA’s performance this weekend, Roadside Attractions will expand BELLA’s release to nearly 50 additional cities in the next two weeks. Specific theaters in each city can be found online at www.bellatheaters.com.

OPENING November 9, 2007
Boston

Manchester, NH

New Haven/Hartford

Omaha, NE

Cincinnati

Milwaukee

Madison

Green Bay

Pittsburgh

Tucson

Minneapolis

Des Moines

Albuquerque

Durango, CO

El Paso

Oklahoma City

Honolulu

Peoria/Bloomington, IL

South Bend/Elkhart, IN

OPENING November 16, 2007
Buffalo, NY

Rochester, NY

Syracuse, NY

Richmond/Charlottesville, VA

Norfolk/Portsmouth/Newport News, VA

Columbus, OH

Louisville, KY

Toledo, OH

Lincoln, NE

Lansing, MI

Indianapolis, IN

Fargo/Grand Forks, ND
Springfield, IL

Columbus, GA

Charlotte, NC

Greenville/Sparatanberg/Ashville, SC

Charleston, SC

Santa Fe, NM

Harlingen/Brownsville, TX

Memphis, TN

Portland, OR

Durango, CO

Monterey/Salinas, CA

Spokane, WA

New Orleans,LA

Jacksonville, FL

Ft. Myers/Naples, FL

Salt Lake City, UT

Palms Springs, CA

Greensboro/Winston Salem, NC

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Comment by Josh from Ohio

November 6, 2007 @ 11:32 am

Hey Angela,

I’m taking my sister to see “Bella” this Saturday. I was a little worried though because of the 6 or so theaters that is showing the movie, only one will still be showing it this weekend. All the others are stopping after Thursday night. My cousin wanted to go see it in Columbus last weekend, but it wasn’t playing anywhere except for a pregnancy crisis center, but it sold out within minutes she said. So in Ohio it is only playing in Cleveland and Cincinnati. I was hoping that Toledo had it last week, but nope! So I’ll let you know hopefully come next week what I thought of the film myself. I think you and I think a lot alike so if you liked it, I’m pretty sure I’ll like it. Shanon can’t wait until I see the movie so I stop talking about going to see it : )

My sister is not Catholic. My mom decided to leave her Catholic faith and attend a non-denominational with my step-dad. My sister was in Junior High at the time so she had to also leave her Catholic faith. My sister is now a senior in High School and is questioning God and her faith as many young people do. She just broke off a long relationship with her boyfriend who has been hanging out with a bad group of “friends”. He’s been making some stupid decisions and hasn’t been all that honest about some of the stupid decisions he’s been making. She’s always been the type of person who helps people and so it has been hard for her to break things off with Brad while he is choosing to be influenced by his new “friends”. I think this weekend will be good for her to get out and do some things with other people. So I invited her to go see “Bella”. She just wrote a paper on the Death Penalty and she mentioned abortion several times throughout her paper. She told me how a girl in her speech class was arguing for abortion and the girl’s speech was only two minutes long (if that) and it was supposed to be 10. Britt said that the girl’s points for why abortion is okay were pretty stupid and not very well thought out.

So pleast say a little prayer for not only my sister, but for Brad, who is not making very good choices at the moment. And finally pray that Britt and I don’t get lost while driving around the big city of Cleveland trying to find the theater playing “Bella”. : )

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Comment by Josh from Ohio

November 6, 2007 @ 1:10 pm

Ooooh! Columbus will be opening “Bella” in coming weeks. I’ll have to let my cousin know. Cool!

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