UPDATED at 5:20PM PT with more numbers and analysis. Paul Schrader's dramatic thriller First Reformed, starring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried, handily outpaced all new limited release titles over the weekend with a per-theater average of $25,067. The A24 newcomer played four locations Friday to Sunday, grossing…

Focus Features is confident that crowds will know the man at the center of its weekend documentary release, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word. The film by Wim Wenders will have a fairly wide bow by nonfiction standards, in about 300 locations in North America this weekend. Bleecker Street is going with a more…

U.S deals are starting to emerge from Berlin with Sundance Selects picking up Grey Gardens-style doc That Summer. The distributor will launch Göran Hugo Olsson's film this spring. The doc, which has its international premiere at the Berlinale, centers on the film project that artist Peter Beard initiated in 1972 with…