The indie/arthouse market is exhibiting some breadth as Kneecap has a fantastic debut, CatVidoFest as properly, and holdovers like Didi and Sing Sing are type of raking it in contemplating how few screens they’re on. As extra extensive releases and tentpoles present up and take flight a rising tide could also be elevating indie boats – perhaps not as a lot or as many as distributors hope, however some.
Theater chain CEOs on quarterly earnings calls final week insisted they want all types of flicks and that’s what they’re getting, together with Indian specialty fare that continues to pop on the field workplace. Daru Na Peenda Hove, a Punjabi movie from Rhythm Boyz Leisure, is not any. 9 this weekend, Comscore says, grossing $616k on 118 screens.
Kneecap from Sony Footage Classics led new indie openings with $492.4k on 703 screens. The music biopic is enjoying arthouses and multiplexes, reaching youthful demos, and music followers of the Belfast hip hop trio that raps in native Irish. The movie stars the three members of Kneecap – Naoise Ó Cairealláin “Móglaí Bap”, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh “Mo Chara”, and JJ Ó Dochartaigh “Dj Provaí”, as themselves, with different actors (Michael Fassbender enjoying Cairealláin’s dad).
The group’s been internet hosting screenings across the nation for weeks, and the social media-heavy advertising and marketing push is one among SPC’s greatest. Written and directed by Wealthy Peppiat.
Didi from Focus Options is an estimated 3-day weekend of $440k from simply 47 theaters (+42 from its debut final week). That’s a hefty cume of $728k for Sean Wang’s Sundance Award-winning coming of age movie. Expands to about 150 theaters Friday,
Oscilloscope Labs’ CatVideoFest 2024 had its greatest opening since launching in 2019 with $281.2k on 106 screens. The distributor famous dozens of offered out screenings in New York, Los Angeles, the Bay Space, Tucson, Rochester, Asheville and extra, spectacular since this can be a compilation of cat movies, and is being booked as an “occasion,” that means nearly all of engagements are simply 1 to 4 screenings in complete.
A portion of all CatVideoFest proceeds go to help native animal shelters and humane societies and it’s raised almost $30k thus far this weekend. Will proceed to display at tons of venues via September.
Sing Sing from A24 grossed $173.9k on simply 18 screens this weekend for a $543k cume. Greg Kwedar’s affecting drama starring Colman Domingo added 5 new markets. Will proceed to develop.
Bleecker Road’s The Fabulous Four will gross $418.4k in its second weekend on 920 screens for a cume of $2.3 million.
New restricted launch: Kino Lorber opened Mikko Mäkelä’s Sebastian is $12k in three areas (IFC Heart, Landmark Sundown and Landmark Opera Plaza Cinema in San Francisco), boosted by Q&A exhibits in all three cities and powerful engagement with the LGBTQ+ press and group, in addition to partnerships with intercourse work organizations. The Sundance movie follows Max (newcomer Ruaridh Mollica) as a 25-year-old author residing in London who moonlights as a intercourse employee underneath the pseudonym Sebastian as analysis for his debut novel. Expands to further markets August 9.
