“Salaar,” “Dunki” In Top Ten, “All Of Us Strangers” Makes Solid Debut, “Poor Things” Aces Expansion – Specialty Box Office

Two Indian films Salaar Part 1 – Ceasefire And Dunk supported the North American box office on a relatively quiet holiday weekend as Searchlight Pictures’ We are all strangers had fixed openings per screen and Poor stuff a nice extension.

From Tollywood to Bollywood, it was a one-two punch that highlighted the key role of Indian films at the US box office, especially this weekend when holiday shopping and Christmas Eve slowed movie theater traffic.

Telugu movie Salaar Part 1 – Ceasefire Opened to $5.48 million on 802 screens for a no. 5th place in North America. Distributed in the US by Moksha Movies and Pathyangira Cinemas. Directed by Prashanth Neel, the film stars Prabhas, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Shruti Haasan and Jagapathi Babu in lead roles.

And Dunk from Yas Raj Films, starring Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Raju Hirani, grossed an estimated $3.59 million from 686 theaters and debuted at no. 10 landed. The estimate through Sunday is $4.8 million.

Indie productions include the drama by Andrew Haigh We are all strangers Starring Searchlight Pictures’ Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy, it earned a PSA of $33,000 ($188,000 gross) on four screens in New York and Los Angeles. The merchant’s Poor stuff by Yorgos Lanthimos had the best limited opening of the season three weeks ago with a PSA of $72,000.

We are all strangers opened at AMC Lincoln Square and Angelika in New York and AMC Century City and Landmark Sunset 5 in LA. The Lincoln Square and Landmark Sunset exit surveys produced ratings and recommended values ​​above industry standards. Earned an A CinemaScore, with 18- to 24-year-olds giving the film an A, as did 35- to 49-year-olds.

The audience was 61% male, 51% under 35, 64% white, 18% Hispanic, and 13% East Asian/Pacific Islander. Almost half of viewers would advise others to see the film “immediately”, describing the film as well acted (86%), emotionally moving (78%) and “a film I will keep thinking about” (68 % ). .

The film recently won seven BIFA Awards and was nominated for four Gotham Awards, three Spirit Awards, a Golden Globe for Andrew Scott and a Critics Choice Award for Andrew Haigh. With nine nominations, the film also received the most London Film Critics Circle nominations of any film. Named one of the top ten indies of the year by the National Board of Review. Adam (Scott) plays a lonely screenwriter in London who accidentally meets a mysterious neighbor (Mescal).

Meantime, Poor stuff, starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef, expanded to 800 theaters with an estimated $2.1 million for the three-day weekend and $3 million for the four days. Cume of $6 million. We have top theaters in New York and LA as well as Austin, St. Louis, Salt Lake City and Atlanta seen.

Other special openings: Sony Pictures Classics debuts Freud’s last session on five screens with a $45.6K cume and a PSA of $9.1K. The film, directed by Matthew Brown, stars Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud, who is embroiled in a private debate. The Chronicles of Narnia Writer and theologian CS Lewis, played by Matthew Goode, on the existence of God.

And this from Michel Franco Memory from Ketchup Entertainment, starring Jessica Chastain, opened in two theaters with a gross of $35.6K and a per-screen average of $18.3K. Chastain plays Sylvia, a social worker whose highly structured life revolves around her daughter, her sobriety sessions and her job. But it’s all interrupted when Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) follows her home from her high school reunion.