Nice indie numbers this weekend as Anora turned out highest per-screen-average of 2024 at $90k on six screens for a $540k gross. We Dwell In Time, the perfect platform enlargement of the 12 months, grossed $4.2 million on 956 screens in week 2 for a $4.5 million cume. Newcomers Union and The Line fared properly on one display screen every, as did Goodrich on about 1,000.
“We’re extremely enthusiastic about this weekend’s record-breaking outcomes and the unbelievable essential and viewers response to Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning movie Anora. Baker is a singular director who really understands the ability of the theatrical expertise and the way necessary it’s for movies to be seen within the theater,” Neon stated. “With Mikey Madison in her unparalleled efficiency as Anora, and the movie’s robust awards potential, there’s little doubt it’s going to proceed to captivate a broad viewers as we transfer into the autumn.”
The best PSA of the 12 months is now that $90k from Lincoln Heart, Angelika and Alamo Brooklyn in NY, and, in LA, the Grove, Century Metropolis and Burbank in LA. It was no. 1 in any respect places. Sorts Of Kindness at $75k per display screen when it opened in June was the earlier 2024 PSA file holder, with Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone contemporary off the thrill and field workplace of Poor Issues.
Anora, which sits at 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, additionally hit the second highest PSA post-pandemic behind solely Wes Anderson’s Asteroid Metropolis. It’s within the high 5 PSAs of the final 5 years alongside Neon’s Palme d’Or and Oscar Finest Image-winner Parasite in addition to Asteroid Metropolis, Uncut Gems and The Favorite.
Vital and viewers acclaim has put the movie on the identical trajectory Parasite, Neon says.
The movie by Bong Joon-ho was a significant arthouse crossover, grossing $53 million home.
Written and directed by Sean Baker, produced by Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, and Sean Baker, the movie stars Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yuriy Borisov, Karren Karagulian and Vache Tovmasyan in a comedic variation on a modern-day Cinderella story.
Madison (As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood) is Ani, a younger intercourse employee from Brooklyn whose life takes an surprising flip when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the impetuous son of a Russian billionaire. Nonetheless, when Vanya’s dad and mom catch wind of the union, they ship their henchmen to annul the wedding, setting off a wild chase by way of the streets of New York.
Neon nabbed North American rights to Anora forward of its Cannes debut in late 2023, cementing its fifth consecutive Palme d’Or win (after Parasite, Titane, Triangle of Disappointment and Anatomy Of A Fall ).
It went on to play TIFF and the New York Movie Competition. That is Sean Baker’s eight movie as writer-director with beforehand acclaimed titles together with Pink Rocket (2021), The Florida Undertaking (2017), and Tangerine (2015).
Anora continues its theatrical enlargement over the subsequent few weeks within the lead as much as a large launch in November.
Transferring to A24’s We Dwell In Time — a significant plug for love with the perfect platform enlargement of the 12 months for the love story by John Crowley starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh. It broke into the highest 5 on simply 985 screens with a formidable $4.2 million weekend, a $4.5 million gross and the no. 5 spots on the home field workplace.
RT Licensed Recent with critics and with an viewers rating of 90, exits present younger ladies displaying up in droves (85% underneath 35 and 70% feminine) with word-of-mouth persevering with by way of the roof for stars Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh.
Opened in restricted launch final week and can go large subsequent with the most recent numbers setting it up for a pleasant run.
Goodrich starring Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis clocked in with $650.2k on simply over 1,000 screens. Directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer, distributed by Ketchup Leisure, Goodrich has nice exit polls and viewers scores ( 91%). Michael Keaton’s look on Saturday Night time Dwell final night time might give the movie an uptick in the present day and into the weekdays. Keaton is Andy Goodrich, whose life is upended when his spouse (Laura Benanti) and mom of their nine-year-old twins enters a 90-day rehab program, leaving him on his personal with their younger youngsters. Thrust into the world of recent parenthood, Goodrich leans on his daughter from his first marriage, Grace (Kunis), as he in the end evolves into the daddy Grace by no means had.
Bleecker Road is estimating comedy Rumors will gross $314.1k for opening weekend on 630 screens. Directed by Man Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson and starring Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Chicken and Charles Dance, it world premiered at Cannes and screened at TIFF, the New York Movie Competition, and BFI London. Follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies on the annual G7 summit, the place they try to draft a provisional assertion relating to a worldwide disaster.
Highway Points of interest is estimating $275.6k for Exhibiting Forgiveness on 774. The characteristic directorialk debut of painter Titus Kaphar stars André Holland, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, John Earl Jelks and Andra Day. Holland performs an artist whose path to success is derailed by an surprising go to from his estranged father.
In restricted launch: Union, the Sundance Particular Jury Prize Successful documentary, which was just lately chosen to the celebrated DOC NYC Shortlist, opened completely in New York this weekend and is predicted to gross $10k on the IFC Heart with a number of offered out screenings in only a 114-seat theater. A number one awards contender by Brett Story and Stephen Maing, self-distributed by Degree Floor Productions, will add over 15 markets this coming Tuesday by way of particular engagements together with conventional openings in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and Austin on October 25. Follows a gaggle of abnormal staff who, in 2022, made historical past by efficiently successful their election to turn out to be the very first unionized Amazon office within the U.S. — heralded as an important win for labor because the Nineteen Thirties.
Utopia opened the Tribeca-lauded The Line completely at Regal Union Sq. this weekend in New York with an estimated $8.5K. Identified for a dedication to supporting rising filmmakers, Utopia continues its mission with Ethan Berger’s characteristic debut that explores the darkish aspect of school fraternities. Following a Tuesday premiere with expertise together with Alex Wolff, Halle Bailey, Lewis Pullman, and Austin Abrams in attendance, the movie was propelled by Utopia’s social media and devoted solid/crew assist resembling Alex Wolff’s high-profile appearances on Drew Barrymore, Good Morning America and different main retailers throughout his tour with Billie Eilish.
The Line expands to over 25 markets subsequent week, together with the Landmark Sundown in LA. Utopia continues to announce new dates and occasions weekly on social media along with the
Notable holdovers: Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night time from Sony noticed an estimated $1.8 million on 2,336 screens in week 4 for a cume of $7.6 million at a no. 9 spot on the field workplace.
In its fifth weekend, Mubi’s launch of Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance continued maintain properly because it crossed $13 million with an estimated weekend gross of $878.6k for the weekend on 548 screens for a per-screen and a brand new cume pushing $13.4 million.
