What comes next: Los Angeles is the next of a wide array of full-week and limited showings booked around the country ahead. For a minimally low scale released film, this is a respectable gross.
This documentary about a bipolar woman who fell through the cracks of New Hampshire social services scored a date at New York’s Lincoln Plaza Theater after some festival play. God Knows Where I Am (Bond 360) Metacritic: 67 Festivals include: Hot Docs, Hamptons 2016
What comes next: 15 more full week bookings are already set nationwide. This documentary about a filmmaker’s search for her father’s role in East German’s web of informants opened at New York’s Film Forum last Wednesday. Karl Marx City (Bond 360) Metacritic: 72 Festivals include: Toronto, New York READ MORE: Jean-Pierre Léaud Speaks: How a Cinematic Icon Nearly Killed Himself for His Best Role Since ‘The 400 Blows’ What comes next: A range of bookings, many non-theatrical, lie ahead nationally. That makes the gross more impressive, even if it won’t extend far beyond high-end cinephiles. This niche item takes place in a single room with Louis bedridden and attended to by a range of palace figures. This French film featuring the legendary Jean-Pierre Leaud recreating the final days of the Sun King opened at New York’s Lincoln Center. Spanish director Albert Serra (“Birdsong”) has been a strong festival favorite in recent years. The Death of Louis XIV (Cinema Guild) Metacritic: 69 Festivals include: Cannes, Toronto, New York 2016 Leading up to the return of “Twin Peaks” and paralleled by a four-film retrospective on another screen at New York’s IFC Center, this documentary about Lynch’s early creative life up to his feature debut “Eraserhead” yielded a strong response. Caro meantime is slated to directed Disney’s $100 million-plus live-action “Mulan.”ĭavid Lynch – The Art Life (Janus) Metacritic: 76 Festivals include: Venice 2016, South by Southwest 2017 What comes next: This will certainly get wider play. Chastain’s “Miss Sloane” (Europa) expanded to 1,845 theaters in December and only grossed $1,648,000, so this is a huge improvement, with a decent 31 per cent Saturday uptick slightly better than “Gold” had its initial weekend, which suggests it’s playing well. This compares well to “Woman in Gold” starring Helen Mirren exactly two years ago, which Weinstein opened in 258 theaters to a similar gross of $2.1 million.
Movie star Jessica Chastain pulled audiences - while pointing out on NPR that this rare war film told from a woman’s point of view was mostly reviewed by men. $3,349,000 in 541 theaters PTA (per theater average): $6,191,000Ĭoming in #10 overall despite playing in only 541 theaters, New Zealand “Whale Rider” director Niki Caro’s variation on the Holocaust rescue theme (this time involving a Warsaw zoo) drew strong response despite tepid overall reviews. The Zookeeper’s Wife (Focus) Metacritic: 58 Festivals include: Cinequest 2017 Notably Netflix also promoted producer Steven Spielberg’s three-episode Hollywood World War II documentary “Five Came Back,” based on Mark Harris’s book, which played the IFC Center and Laemmle’s Monica in order to qualify for film awards, along the same lines as Oscar-winner “O.J.: Made in America.” Opening Dramatic Grand Prize Winner “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore,” “Burning Sands” and “Deidra & Laney Rob a Train.” They touted four Sundance debuts: “The Discovery” starring Robert Redford and Rooney Mara, which played limited theatrical dates with no grosses reported, U.S. New openings finding niche interest were led by “David Lynch – The Art Life” (Janus) as smaller films continue to struggle.Īt a time of dwindling movie ad revenue, streaming service Netflix took out two full-page ads for five films in both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. READ MORE: ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ Director Niki Caro Has a Plan for Fighting Hollywood’s Gender Gap The dearth of other product should help Focus to find bigger success ahead. While smart-house moviegoers can be discerning - see Fox Searchlight’s “Wilson” - the holocaust drama overcame modest reviews to score in wider initial release. Hungry for fresh nourishment, specialty audiences flocked to new World War II drama “The Zookeeper’s Wife” (Focus Features), directed by Niki Caro and starring Jessica Chastain.