Sideshow/Janus Films E.O held up well through its second week, earning $23,217 for the five-day holiday frame ($11,609 per screen) and $16,900 for the three-day weekend ($8,450 per screen). The new Cume sold for $50.7k in a crowded art house market, a strong showing for the film with a melancholy gray donkey. It expands to LA next week, opening at the Laemmle Royal, Alamo Drafthouse DTLA, Los Feliz 3 and Santa Barbara’s Riviera Theater at SBIFF. Director Jerzy Skolimowski will be available for questions and answers throughout the weekend.
The Cannes Jury Prize winner will begin a nationwide expansion on December 9, with several dozen additional runs planned over the next month before a wider launch in January.
Steven Spielberg’s The Fables expanded to 638 NY and LA theaters Wednesday in week three. The Universal Pictures release has an estimated three-day gross of $2.2 million, a five-day gross of $3.1 million, an estimated gross of $3.4 million, and a No. 6 position at the North American box office. Top markets are NY, LA, San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia. With an A CinemaScore, Universal expects audience calls “through the holiday season and beyond.” Written by Spielberg and Tony Kushner, the semi-autobiographical film stars Gabriel LaBelle as an aspiring teenage filmmaker with Michelle Williams and Paul Dano as his parents.
Among new openings, neon documentary All the beauty and the bloodshed earned $33.1K on three NYC screens (IFC Center Film at Lincoln Center, BAM) for the three days and $42.5 for the five-day frame for $11K and $14K PSAs, respectively. Q&A with director Laura Poitras followed selected screenings.
It will expand to LA and San Francisco on December 2nd and other cities on December 9th. A rare documentary that won the Golden Lion Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival, Laura Poitras’ documentary follows photographer and activist Nan Goldin’s fight against the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma, whose painkiller Oxycontin started the opioid crisis.
music box movies’ Leonor will never die earned $3,000 from a limited schedule at a theater, the Metrograph in NYC. It will have a nationwide Alamo Drafthouse Sneak Preview on November 29th before expanding to key markets such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Denver and Austin on December 2nd and will remain on the platform throughout the month. Nominated for Best International Film at this year’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, Leonor debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to do TIFF and Fantastic Fest.
A24s The inspection starring Jeremy Pope as a struggling gay Marine and Gabriel Union as his reticent mother, expanded to 32 top markets in week two and earned $88.9k for the three days and $103k for the five days for a total gross of 173, equivalent to $8,000.
It’s a battle for screen space through a mix of films, all of which have had a combination of strong reviews and audience response, festival acclaim, Oscar hype and early nominations, notably from the Gotham and Independent Spirit Awards. Because these movies keep popping up on the platform during the holiday season. Tár, Triangle of Sadness, The Banshees of Inisherin, Aftersun, Holy Spider, Decision to Leave and others still populate art houses. bones and such (No. 7 at the weekend box office) ran wide over the weekend.
The Gotham Awards, the first big ceremony of the season, take place tomorrow night at NYC’s Cipriani Downtown. It recognizes independent films (with a budget limit of up to $35 million, some are eliminated) as the launching pad for awards ceremonies as the first prizes are awarded.
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