R. J. Cutler's The September Issue, which captures both the process of producing the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine and the intramural tension between Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour and Creative Director Grace Coddington, exceeded $1 million at the box office in its third week of release. Following aan opening two-week run in New York City,. The film rolled out wide across the country-and pulled in over $700,000 over the weekend, for a cumulative gross total of $1,283,000, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. The September Issue is the sixth million dollar-grosser of 09, and with It Might Get Loud showing potential and Capitalism: A Love Story destined to join Michael Moore's trophy case of commercial successes, docs are looking to close out the decade relatively strongly--albeit in a platform of steadily declining promise.
Here's a list of the top grossing docs of 2009 to date:
1) Earth $32,011,576
2) Food, Inc. $ 4,205,402
3) Waltz With Bashir $ 2,283,849
4) Valentino: The Last Emperor $ 1,755,134
5) Every Little Step $ 1,709,679
6) The September Issue $1,283,000
7) Tyson $ 887,918
8) It Might Get Loud $ 802,000
9) The Wonder of It All $ 744,298
10) The Cross: The Arthur Blessit Story $ 741,557