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Weekend Box-office commentary by Paul Dergarabedian

Notable Openers:

Fathom opened “Met Opera: Agrippina” in 1,000 locations to $1.15 million.

Searchlight opened “Wendy” in 4 locations and took in $30,000 for a PTA of $7,500.

Sony Pictures Classics opened “Greed” in 4 locations and earned $28,496 for a PTA of $7,124.

101 Studios opened “Burden” in 5 locations to $20,142 for a PTA of $4,028.

Oscilloscope Labs opened “Saint Frances” on 1 screen to $16,150 for a PTA of $16,150.  The film opened exclusively at New York’s Angelika Film Center where it posted a very healthy $16k 3-day weekend, including multiple sold out screenings. Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan’s comedy– which won the Audience Award at SXSW in 2019– is currently 96% “fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes.

Notable Films:

Neon’s Oscar winning “Parasite” took in $1.506 million this weekend in 1,324 locations for a cume through Sunday on N. Am. of $51.553 million.

In its second weekend, Lionsgate’s “Las Pildoras De Mi Novio (My Boyfriend’s Meds)” in 350 locations took in $615,000 for a cume through Sunday of $2.35 million.  Jaime Camil and Sandra Echeverría star in this over-the-top hilarious new comedy.

Notable Expansions:

Focus Features’ “Emma” expands to 97 locations (up from 5 locs. last week in its debut) and earns $1.170 million for a North American cume through Sunday of $1.471 million.  The film earned another $1.5M in 17 international territories for a worldwide total through Sunday of $12.9M.

Neon expands “Portrait Of A Lady On Fire” in this its fourth weekend to 268 locations (up from 130 locs. last week) earning $730,000 for a PTA of $2,724 for a cume through Sunday of $2.453M.

Amazon Studios’ “Seberg” expands to 373 locations (up from 3 in its debut last week) to earn $207,534 for a PTA of $556 and a cume to date of $260,499.

YTD BO = 3.5%