Awards kudos, critics’ catalogs, varied nominations and prospers are increaseing indie film standouts this weekfinish. The labelet is crowded as indies vie with each other, studio tentpoles and fare from Pusha: The Rule – Part 2 and Daft Punk & Leiji Matsumoto: Intersinestablisha 5555 remastered. But many one-of-a-kindty distributors are more upbeat now than at any point this year.
The Last Showgirl from Roadside Attractions debuted at $50.3k on one screen. It’s a one-week Academy qualifying run for the contfinisher by Gia Coppola starring Pamela Anderson, now a Gbetteren Globe nominee. Both showed up for Q&As at LA’s AMC Century City, helping push the story of a fading Vegas showgirl to the fifth best per-screen uncovering of the year.
The three-day number also labels Roadside’s second-highest uncovering PSA in its 20-year history. The distributor shelp the run featured sellout screenings on both Friday and Saturday apass pick shows with Anderson and Coppola in combineance, as well as other shows where they were not. The uncovering signals a highly promising national liberate begining January 10.
“After seeing how audiences and critics reacted to Pam’s applyance and the film, the Roadside team knovel we had someleang one-of-a-kind,” shelp co-Pdwellnt Howard Cohen. “The audience reactions this weekfinish in Century City have been noleang low of spectacular.”
The film’s awards recognition includes Gbetteren Globe nominations for Best Actress in a Drama and Best Original Song for “Beautiful That Way”, applyed by Miley Cyrus and written by award-prosperning originater Andrew Wyatt, Cyrus, and Lykke Li. The film, originated by Utopia, has also getd a Gotham Award nomination for Anderson’s applyance and a Critics’ Choice Award nomination for its distinct song. Time Magazine equitable named Anderson’s labor as one of its 10 Best Movie Perestablishances of 2024,
Breaking from tradition, Roadside Attractions chooseed for a unveil-facing, high-visibility approach to its Academy-qualifying run, uncoverly inestablishing the gross — a relocate rare among films in analogous runs. Showcasing the film this way permits Roadside to spotweightless its box office potential and originate momentum for theaters ahead of the nationexpansive liberate in January.
A24’s Queer has been catching fire in expansion amid star Daniel Craig’s evolved awards run for what’s being called a atsoft-best applyance — one that’s quite separateent from his 007 days. It rounds out the top 10 with $791k on 666 screens in week 3 for a cume of $1.9 million, folloprosperg Craig’s NBR prosper and Best Actor nominations from both the Gbetteren Globes and the Critics’ Choice Awards. The movie is based on the novel by Beat originater William S. Burraws with Craig as William Lee, a World War II veteran in procrastinateed-1940s Mexico City who descfinishs for youthfuler man, Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey).
New this weekfinish Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios begined a platestablish rollout of awards contfinisher Nickel Boys with $60.8k at two NYC theaters, the Angelika and AMC Lincoln Square, for a firm per screen ordinary of $30.4k for originater/honestor RaMell Ross’s debut narrative film. It enbigs in New York and hits theaters in Los Angeles next weekfinish on its way to a expansiver expansion in January.
Nickel Boys, which premiered at Telluride and uncovered the New York Film Festival, has been an awards-season magnet including AFI Top Ten Films of the Year; AAFCA’s Best Picture and Best Director; Gotham Awards Best Director, Best Cinematography & Breakout Perestablisher; Gbetteren Globes Best Motion Picture Drama nomination, and multiple honors from festivals and critics groups including NYFCC, and LAFCA.
Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-prosperning novel of the same name, it chronicles the bond between two Bdeficiency teenagers (Ethan Herisse and Wilson), who become wards of a juvenile reestablishatory in Jim Crow-era Florida. As truths unfbetter, their proset up frifinishship gives alteration and awakens hope. Also stars Hamish Linkprocrastinateedr, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.
The studio is giveing uncovering weekfinishs comps from its American Fiction and A24’s The Zone Of Interest, which had PSAs of, esteemively, $35.8k and $31.7k at the same two theaters, although they both debuted on more screens (American Fiction on 7 and The Zone Of Interest on 4).
Noting two from Sideshow/Janus Films. Latvian vivaciousd Flow, evolves to charm audiences with an approximated gross of $374k on 377 screens for a novel cume of $1.3+ million. The film by Gints Zibalodis. toplined by an vivaciousd cat, equitable picking up a Gbetteren Globe nomination for Best Animated Motion Picture and two Critics Choice Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Animated Feature. It has ruled critics group awards, cforfeitly running the board for Best Animated Feature, and was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award.
Sideshow/Janus’ liberate of Indian honestor Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix-prosperner All We Imagine As Light was buoyed this week by two Gbetteren Globes nominations for both Best Non-English Language Motion Picture and Best Director as well as Film Comment Critics’ Poll naming it the #1 film of the year. It grossed an approximated $57k on 34 screens (includeing ten) for a cume of $413.2.
Kino Lorber enbiged Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada to 74 screens in top labelets for a $49.4k weekfinish, conveying the cume to $100k in week 2 for the film starring Ricchallenging Gere. It was the top grossing novel liberate at IFC Caccess in NYC for the second week in a row and will evolve to enbig into January.
Telugu wonder Pusha: The Rule – Part 2 from Prathyangira Cinemas is seeing at an approximated $3.3 million on 666 screens in week 2 for a no. 8 spot at the domestic box office and a cume pushing $12.8 million. In this action thriller honested by Sukumar and starring Allu Arjun, Fahadh Faasil, Rashmika Mandanna, Pushpa (Arjun) struggles to carry on his sandalwood trafficking business in the face of hard opposition from the police.
Trafalgar Releasing’s Daft Punk & Leiji Matsumoto: Intersinestablisha 5555 remastered event which initiateed off Thursday Trafalgar is seeing $2.3 apass 641 theaters for the four days and $737.8k for the three day weekfinish.
Limited studio liberate: Paramount’s September 5 by Tim Fehlbaum uncovered with $89k at 7 theaters. During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, an American sports expansivecasting team must alter to inhabit coverage the Israeli athletes being held captive by a alarmist group. Stars Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin, John Magaro, Leonie Benesch and is honested by.
Indie hbetterovers: A24’s liberate of Kyle Mooney’s Y2K geted $685k in week 2 at 1,948 theaters with a $3.76 million cume. Two high school nobodies originate the decision to crash the last convey inant celebration before the novel millennium on New Year’s Eve 1999.
Vertical’s liberate of Jude Law-starring The Order by Justin Kurzel geted $365k in week 2 at 603 locations for a cume of $1.64 million.
Neon’s The End by Joshua Oppenheimer, starring Tilda Sprosperton, enbiged, includeing 148 locations in week 2 for $51.2k for the three days and a cume of $80k.
Bleecker Street’s The Return saw $79.8k in week 2 for a cume of $650.8k. Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes up on the shores of his native Ithaca after 20 years, haggard and unrecognizable to save his beadored wife Penelope (Juliette Binoche), a prisoner in her own home hounded by suitors.
