In a weekend of wide releases, indies included, A24’s Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh-starring We Live In Time popped on five screens with the third best limited opening of the year after Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds Of Kindness and Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night.
The romance by John Crowley grossed $225.9k opening weekend for a per-screen average of $45.9k. We Live in Time is looking at an estimated $225k for the four-day holiday frame (Monday is Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day in the U.S.) for a $51k PSA.
The film, which world premiered at TIFF last month, had multiple sold-out Q&As in LA this weekend and strong exit polls in both opening markets (NY/LA). Limited national expansion next week before going wide on 10/25. It’s a non-linear look at a years-long relationships and marriage.
A24’s A Different Man starring Sebastian Stan grossed $46.9k on 103 screens for a $576.9 gross in week 3. Its psychological horror The Front Room, which opened Sept. 6, will see $12.3k on 22 screens for a $3 million cume.
Stan is starring as Donald Trump in The Apprentice from Briarcliff, which is projecting a three-day gross of $1.58 million at 1,740 theaters and rounds out the top ten this weekend.
Toho International’s animated My Hero Academia: You’re Next grossed over $3 million on 1,845 screens. No. 8 of the top ten. And Piece By Piece from Focus Features opened to $3.8 million at 1,865 theaters. The lego animated doc by Morgan Neville about singer-songwriter and record producer Pharrell Williams has an A CinemaScore a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes score and the no. 5 spot at the domestic box office.
Still kicking: Columbia Pictures’ Saturday Night is projecting $3.435 million for the weekend (it’s third) in a big expansion, bringing the total domestic gross to $4.19 million through Sunday. It’s no. 7.
Holdovers (moderate/limited release): In week four, Mubi’s release of Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance starring Demi Moore continues to hold with a weekend estimate of $1.14 million on 586 screens and a new cume of $11.6 million.
Am I Racist by conservative podcaster Matt Walsh is at $12.5 million after a $115k for the three-day weekend at 207 locations in week 5.
Look Back from GKids added $239k on 162 screens for a cume of $1.55 million in week 2.
Lee from Roadside Attractions, produced by an starring Kate Winslet, is estimating a 3-day gross of $104.6k on 151 screens in week 3 for a cume near $1.7 million.
The Outrun from Sony Pictures Classics is seeing $101k on 200 screens in week 2 for a cume of $613k.
Music Box Films’ DAAAAAALÍ! saw $7k on 13 screens in week 2 for a $12.8k cume.