‘Corsage’ And Its Leading Fashion Empress In New York Theater Debut – Special Box Office

New Yorkers braved the cold this weekend corsage at two theaters (IFC Center, Film at Lincoln Center), while Marie Kreutzer’s biopic of Empress Elisabeth of Austria starring Vicky Krieps earned an estimated $32,000 over the three-day weekend, a robust $16,000 average per screen.

The four-day estimate for the IFC Films biopic of Empress Elisabeth of Austria — known as Sisi — is $36,000, a PSA of $18,000.

“We are so proud of the journey corsage has been garnering continued support from critics and viewers alike, responding to a bold tour-de-force performance by Vicky Krieps and impeccable direction by Marie Kreutzer,” said Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films.

The film “has resonated worldwide since its Cannes premiere, setting the stage for a contemporary pop culture moment with the true story of Empress Sisi and the power of female storytelling,” said Bocco. Corsage is an older term for corset or bodice, which fashion conscious Sisi struggles with every day.

Sisi is also the focus of Netflix series, The Empress.

corsage, shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best International Film, had its world premiere in Cannes, where Krieps won the Un Certain Regard Prize for Best Performance. It headlined TIFF and NYFF, won Best Picture at the London Film Festival and was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best International Film (Audrey Diwan’s happenalso won by IFC Films) and the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

It will expand to LA on Friday and to about 200 theaters nationwide on January 6.

UAR’s release by Sarah Polleys women talk opened in eight locations to $40,000 for a PSA of just over $5,000 and an estimated total of $53,000 for the four days. It will debut in NYC, LA, Chicago, Austin and Toronto and will continue to expand with a wide release scheduled for January 20th. Based on the book by Miriam Toews with Brad Pitt as Executive Producer. With Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey and Sheila McCarthy, along with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand. A group of women in a remote religious colony try to reconcile their beliefs with a series of abuses committed by the men there.

Life by Sony Pictures Classics grossed $21.2k across three screens for a $7.1k per screen average. The film by Oliver Hermanus opened on three screens in New York (Angelika, New Plaza Cinema) and LA (Royal). Written by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro and starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp and Tom Burke, the film tells the story of an ordinary man, reduced to a shadowy existence by years of oppressive office routine, who make an extreme effort to change his boring life. Based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film ekiru.

Some of the recent special openings including The Whale, The Bashshees by Inisherin, Tár and The Fables surpassed those numbers, but given the cold temperatures in New York this weekend and the general state of the indie film market, they’re solid debuts. Gross profits remain well below pre-Covid levels, often regardless of budgets and production value, stars or rave reviews – a condition that producers and distributors will struggle with well into 2023.

Remnant: The release of A24’s Darren Aronofsky The whale Starring Brendan Fraser, it expanded to 603 screens in week three and earned an estimated $924,000. Earnings through Sunday are over $2 million.

The menu by Searchlight Pictures earned $617,000 across 840 screens in week six, for an estimated four-day gross of $900,000 and a total revenue of nearly $34 million.

Week seven, Universal’s The Fables Steven Spielberg grossed $550,000 over three days and expects $880,000 over four days across 1,122 screens. Estimated domestic gross through Sunday is $9.7 million.

The whale, the menu and The Fables 7th, 8th and 9th place in the domestic top ten.