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Specialty Box Office: 'The Raid 2' and 'Vivian Maier' Lead Openers as 'Budapest Hotel' and 'God's Not Dead' Soar In Expansion
7 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Gareth Evans's "The Raid 2" led a quartet of newcomers at the specialty box office this weekend. A sequel to 2012's "The Raid: Redemption," the Sony Pictures Classics-released action-thriller grossed $176,907 from 7 theaters, averaging a potent $25,272 ahead of expansion. Notably, the first "Raid" averaged $15,270 from 14 theaters in its first weekend, and went on to gross $4,105,187. Also fairing quite well in its first weekend out was "Finding Vivian Maier" -- documentary about the mysterious nanny who photographed Chicago scenes in the 1950s and '60s. Sundance Selects opened the film in 3 theaters and saw a promising $63,600 gross and a $21,200 per-theater-average. Another doc, "Mistaken For Strangers," opened in 9 theaters care of Abramorama. Directed by Tom Berninger, the documentary chronicles his time spent on the road as a member of the tour crew for The National. It grossed a respectable $81,800 for a $9,089. Lionsgate/Pantelion were much more aggressive with "Cesar »
- Peter Knegt
Advice for Producers, Crowdfunding, the Wu-Tang Clan, Dirty Old New York and More: Sunday Links
9 hours ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
Here are some of the articles I’ve read this week that I recommend for your Sunday afternoon reading. “Whose Brooklyn Is It Anyway?” wonders A.O. Scott at the New York Times as he considers Spike Lee’s recent comments on the borough’s gentrification: Every city is simultaneously a seedbed of novelty and a hothouse of nostalgia, and modern New York presents a daily dialectic of progress and loss. As Colson Whitehead notes in “The Colossus of New York,” you become a New Yorker — or perhaps a true resident of any place, whether you were born there or not — when […] »
- Scott Macaulay
Box Office: 'Noah' Rides To #1, 'Sabotage' Bombs & 'Frozen' Becomes Highest Grossing Animated Pic Of All Time
9 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
There were concerns about whether or not the crucial faith-based audience would buy tickets, and Paramount was choosy about who got to see Darren Aronofsky's grim, dark and bleak "Noah" in advance, but there's no doubt ticket buyers were curious, with the biblical tale taking in over $40 million this weekend. It's easily the director's best opening of his career, and a decent shot in the arm for the reported $125 million movie, which is also doing solid business overseas (it has already earned $51 million abroad). But still questionable are the legs it will have over the next few weeks, and the signs aren't that good. Not only will "Noah" have to survive "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," which arrives in North American theaters next week (having already taken over $70 million internationally), it seems that word of mouth may also dampen the momentum. Aronofsky's movie earned a rather tepid C from moviegoers, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
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