King Corn
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm
DistributorBalcony Releasing
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Opening$6,753
1 theaters
1 theaters
Release DateOct 12, 2007
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Feb 10, 2008
Running Time1 hr 28 min
GenresDocumentary
In Release447 days/63 weeks
Widest Release8 theaters
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| Date | Rank | Weekend | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Avg | To Date | Weekend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12-14 | 86 | $6,753 | - | 1 | - | $6,753 | $6,753 | 1 |
| Oct 19-21 | 86 | $7,337 | +8.6% | 3 | +2 | $2,445 | $16,691 | 2 |
| Oct 26-28 | 88 | $5,597 | -23.7% | 3 | - | $1,865 | $26,186 | 3 |
| Nov 2-4 | 76 | $8,767 | +56.6% | 3 | - | $2,922 | $36,584 | 4 |
| Nov 9-11 | 74 | $12,660 | +44.4% | 8 | +5 | $1,582 | $54,822 | 5 |
| Nov 16-18 | 68 | $8,602 | -32.1% | 6 | -2 | $1,433 | $69,835 | 6 |
| Nov 23-25 Thanksgiving 3-Day | 78 | $3,536 | -58.9% | 5 | -1 | $707 | $75,540 | 7 |
| Nov 30-Dec 2 Post-Thanksgiving | 76 | $3,422 | -3.2% | 6 | +1 | $570 | $81,368 | 8 |
| Dec 7-9 | 75 | $5,753 | +68.1% | 5 | -1 | $1,150 | $90,435 | 9 |
| Dec 14-16 | 91 | $976 | -83% | 3 | -2 | $325 | $94,044 | 10 |
| Dec 21-23 | 78 | $49 | -95% | 1 | -2 | $49 | $95,652 | 11 |
| Dec 28-30 | 83 | $703 | +1,334.7% | 2 | +1 | $351 | $96,450 | 12 |
| Jan 4-6 | 89 | $75 | -89.3% | 1 | -1 | $75 | $97,062 | 13 |
| Feb 8-10 | 104 | $797 | - | 5 | - | $159 | $105,422 | 18 |
