EXCLUSIVE: Perfect Days, the comeback function from legendary German filmmaker Wim Wenders, has turn into boutique operator Curzon Cinemas‘s longest-running movie after passing 30 steady weeks this previous Friday.
Excellent Days has performed at Curzon Bloomsbury in London for 206 steady days. The movie passes Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Automotive, which performed for 26 steady weeks, to turn into the operator’s longest-running title beneath fashionable monitoring. Excellent Days is at the moment the seventh highest-grossing movie at Curzon Bloomsbury of all time.
Wenders’s quietly radical, Tokyo-set drama, stars Japanese actor Koji Yakusho as a person with a love of timber and literature who mysteriously opts for a easy life by working as a bathroom cleaner. The movie debuted in Competitors at Cannes in 2023 the place Yakusho received Greatest Actor.
All rights on the movie for the UK, LATAM, India, and Turkey have been acquired by Mubi from The Match Manufacturing unit at Cannes 2023. The pic recorded a few of Wenders’s strongest opening field workplace figures throughout territories and has continued to play effectively with audiences. The movie’s widest UK launch was 135 screens. UK field workplace at the moment sits at £1,386,958, Wenders’ biggest-ever movie within the UK. The pic has additionally performed a consecutive 30 weeks at Bristol Watershed. Excellent Days is now additionally Wenders’s largest movie in Mexico after 25 weeks in cinemas. Mubi opened the movie in LATAM on February 15. The movie clocked $1,315,616 over 348,025 admissions.
Excellent Days has additionally recorded a monster €5.5 million on the field workplace in Italy with greater than 800K admissions over 12 weeks in cinemas. Different standout figures collected by The Match Manufacturing unit and Mubi embrace €3 million with greater than 440K admissions in France, €3.6 million in Germany with greater than 370K admissions, and $3.5 million in North America after 10 weeks in cinemas and 320K admissions. Neon launched the movie within the U.S.
Curzon advised us they’re involved with Mubi to lock Excellent Days in for an additional week on the large display screen, pushing the pic to 31 steady weeks. Different long-running fashionable titles at Curzon Cinemas embrace Luca Guadagnino’s Name Me By Your Identify, which famously performed for twenty-four weeks at Curzon Soho. Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon performed for 23 weeks on the similar cinema in 2001. Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera has additionally clocked a robust 18 weeks at Bloomsbury.
Excellent Days remains to be some weeks off the file year-long run of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing at London’s Institute of Modern Arts (ICA). The ICA performed the movie’s 159-minute director’s lower for 52 steady weeks as a part of an unofficial residency. Colm Bairéad’s Oscar-nominated pic The Quiet Lady additionally performed for a straight 12 months on the Irish Movie Institute in Dublin.
