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What’s Next At The Chinese Box Office As Covid & Politics Prove An Unpredictable Mix
Reading the tea leaves with regard to China in 2023 is even more difficult than usual. The country’s about-face on its longstanding zero-Covid policy has implications from geopolitics to economics and, closer to home for Hollywood, the state of the market after a dismal 2022. Exactly what those…
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‘A Man Called Otto’ Joins ‘Broker’, ‘Turn Every Page’ And ‘Alice, Darling’ Qualifying Run – Specialty Preview
Specialty film closes the book on a mixed 2022 this weekend with the limited release by Sony of Tom Hanks-starring A Man Called Otto; a literary doc by Lizzie Gottlieb from Sony Pictures Classics and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest from Neon via Cannes.
Otto, by Mark Forster, is a remake of a Swedish…
‘The Whale’ With Brendan Fraser Sets 2022 Record For Best Limited Opening – Specialty Box Office
Darren Aronofsky's The Whale from A24 swam to the biggest limited opening of the year in NY and LA this weekend, beating the per screen record set by in late spring by the indie distributor's Everything, Everywhere All At Once.
The film starring Brendan Fraser sold out shows at all six theaters this…
‘The Whale’ With Brendan Fraser Set To Make A Splash In Choppy Arthouse Market – Specialty Preview
From its triumphant world premiere (with seven-minute standing ovation) at the Venice Film Festival, A24 opens Darren Aronofsky's The Whale in theaters this weekend amid a whirl of Oscar buzz around star Brendan Fraser. The former action star carries the psychological drama as Charlie, a reclusive and…
To Walk Or Watch: Our Critic Sticks With ‘Emancipation’
It was fascinating to see my good colleague Valerie Complex describe, in her review of the Antoine Fuqua/Will Smith slavery drama Emancipation, having almost walked out of the film, not because it was unworthy, but because she found the depiction of Black suffering and death almost too much to…
Laura Poitras’ Nan Goldin Doc ‘All The Beauty And The Bloodshed’ Tests Box Office – Specialty Preview
Laura Poitras' Venice Golden Lion-winner All The Beauty And The Bloodshed opens in three theaters today, testing a crowded specialty market at the IFC Center, Lincoln Center & BAM in NYC. It adds LA and San Francisco (AMC Sunset 5 & AMC Kabuki) Dec. 2.
Presented by Neon, this is the story of…
‘Bones And All’ With Timothée Chalamet Draws Women, Younger Demos In Limited Opening – Specialty Box Office
Luca Guadagnino's Timothée Chalamet-starring, edgy cannibal road trip romance Bones And All pulled in young demos (79% in the 18-34 rage) and women (54%-46% female) for an opening weekend gross of $120k, or $23.9k per screen average in five theaters. That's respectable and in line with distributor UAR…
Looking For Lessons In The ‘She Said’ Box-Office Beatdown
When a film as heavily promoted and well-regarded as Universal's She Said gets body-slammed at the box office, it's wise to pay attention.
This weekend, the journalism procedural drama, about the pursuit of sexual predator Harvey Weinstein by two reporters from The New York Times, will take in…
‘Bones And All’ With Timothée Chalamet, ‘EO’ With A Soulful Donkey & ‘The Inspection’ Mix It Up At The Arthouse – Specialty Preview
A new crop of prestige titles plant a flag at the arthouse in limited release this weekend from Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All to Jerzy Skolimowski's EO, to Elegance Bratton's The Inspection. Greenwich Entertainment opens doc Love, Charlie: The Rise And Fall Of Charlie Trotter IFC Films presents Bad Axe…
Sharp Open For Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ On ‘Wakanda’ Weekend – Specialty Box Office
The Fabelmans grossed an estimated $160k this weekend at four theaters in NY and LA. That’s a $40K per screen average, on par with recent strong (for post-Covid) specialty openings like The Banshees Of Inisherin (at $45k PSA) and Tár (also $40k), both on four screens too, reflecting a definite pickup in…
Movies With Lowest Budgets To Earn $1 Million, From ‘Clerks’ And ‘The Blair Witch Project’ To ‘Eraserhead’ & More – Photo Gallery
First-time directors have to start somewhere when making their first project and have to cut their teeth in film on a no-budget or micro-budget production. They take on multiple roles of producer, writer, costume designer, production and craft services to save money as there is no budget to hire professionals.
This…
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‘Meet Me In The Bathroom’ A Milestone For Utopia; ‘Banshees’ Expands – Specialty Box Office
Rock documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom grossed $85,683 in four locations for a per screen average of $21,421 in week one, a milestone for the indie distributor. Two of four screenings were one night only, sold-out events at The Fonda in LA and Webster Hall in NY (live performances by The Moldy Peaches…
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