Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin With ‘Moving On’ Sees $800,000 Opening – Special Box Office

Sights along the way Continue grossed an estimated $798,000 in about 800 theaters, about the status quo this weekend for a specialty sector that’s on the rise but still looking for a breakthrough.

Not surprisingly, the audience for Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin’s award-winning comedy was 63% female and 82% over 35. About 64% were over 50 years old. It played best on the coast. The estimated per-theater average for the Paul Weitz film, which also stars Malcolm McDowell and Richard Roundtree, is just over $1,000.

Fonda and Tomlin play estranged friends who reunite to get revenge on their recently deceased best friend’s husband. The film had a trailer earlier 80 for Brady where the duo played alongside Rita Moreno and Sally Field (and Tom Brady). This Paramount opener, which has now shrunk to 168 screens in Week 7, earned $39 million.

Howard Cohen, co-chairman of Roadside Attractions, called the opening number “positive” with good word of mouth, noting that weekday showings are typically heavy for these types of films (more so than for widely distributed commercial images). It will likely add a few screens over the coming weekend.

The theater market is being watched closely for continued signs of post-Covid improvement in art houses and older demos. Continue Grosses repeats a similar opening down the road in September – The good housewith Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline.

The other big opening special, Focus Features’ Within starring Willem Dafoe, opens at 357 locations for a debut of $470,000 for a PTA of $1.3,000 Dafoe is Nemo, an art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist goes awry . Trapped with nothing but precious works of art, he must use all his cunning and ingenuity to survive. This is Vasilis Katsoupi’s directorial debut.

Janus Films opened Louis Garrel’s César-winning comedy The innocent at the IFC Center to $11.5k. This weekend, the distributor also released a 4K restoration of Cauleen Smith’s 1998 historical indie drama Dry lung so at Film at Lincoln Center, including a sold-out Q&A with the director-writer, which raised $5.1,000.

“Janus is thrilled that New York audiences reigned supreme over the weekend in both downtown and midtown,” the distrib said. “We look forward to introducing both films to audiences nationwide in the coming weeks.”

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