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\n\tTwo specialty films now in wide release hit the top ten this weekend with American Fiction<\/em><\/strong> at no. 8 and Poor Things<\/em><\/strong>, at no. 9 and claiming the mantle of the highest-grossing limited opening release of 2023. The Zone of Interest<\/em><\/strong> has had a terrific expansion for a foreign language film about a heavy subject as A24 draws young audiences. Jonathan Glazer\u2019s film took Film of the Year at the London Critics\u2019 Circle Awards\u00a0today with nods for director, music and sound as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAll three had nice holds from the previous week. So, well done, with help from a lull in big studio releases. But there have been other big-ticket quiet periods post-Covid. This is a first since the pandemic with multiple specialty films racking up strong grosses week to week \u2014 should including Saltburn<\/em>, The Holdovers<\/em>, Anatomy of A Fall<\/em> and others here. Yes, industry economics are challenged but people are back in theaters for a variety films.<\/p>\n \n\tOn Searchlight Pictures\u2019 Emma Stone-starring Poor Things<\/strong><\/em> by Yorgos Lanthimos, it grossed an estimated $2.1 million, dropping 27%, at 1,950 theaters \u2013 350 fewer than last week. That rings in an estimated $28.2 million to date that Searchlight says is the highest limited opening cume of 2023 releases (just edging past Asteroid City<\/em>), and the second highest post-Covid after A24\u2019s Everything Everywhere All At Once<\/em> ($77.2 million).<\/p>\n \n\tCord Jefferson\u2019s American Fiction<\/strong><\/em> from Amazon MGM is seeing an estimated $2.3 million on 1,902 screes (up 200). It\u2019s down just 11% from a week ago. The film starring Jeffrey Wright has a cume of $15 million.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Zone Of Interest<\/strong><\/em>, coming off five Academy Award nominations, grossed $1.1 million on about 600 screens, up from 300, in its second week of limited nationwide expansion. It made $1.08 million last weekend. The film continues strong in big markets like New York, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Dallas, Montreal and Toronto with nice play in secondary markets as they\u2019re added. The cume is close to $4.6 million.<\/p>\n \n\tMore than half the audience has been under 35 (through last weekend) thanks to avid young fans of A24, as well as Glazer\u2019s unusual tale of an Auschwitz commander and his family living in a bucolic villa whose garden wall abuts the concentration camp and its horrors, which are only heard, never seen. Both have made it a significant work on the Holocaust for this generation. The film, which was shown at the United Nations last month, is touring college campuses with screenings done or skedded at\u00a0Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt,\u00a0University of Chicago, University of Miami, USC,\u00a0University of California San Diego, University\u00a0of Wisconsin-Madison,\u00a0Florida State University.<\/p>\n \n\tNow in week seven, it will likely begin to pick up more of the traditional and older audiences.<\/p>\n \n\tThe film launched in this weekend in the U.K., grossing $750K at 106 locations, and other European markets. <\/p>\n \n\tHigh-profile, Oscar nominated holdovers: <\/strong>Searchlight Pictures\u2019 All Of Us Strangers<\/em><\/strong> by Andrew Haigh grossed\u00a0$253K on 150 screens for an estimated cume to date of $3.5 million.<\/p>\n \n\tFocus Features\u2019 The Holdovers<\/em><\/strong> starring Paul Giamatti took in $171k at 562 locations for a cume through Sunday closing on $19.8 million.<\/p>\n \n\tNeon\u2019s Anatomy of a Fall<\/em><\/strong> grossed $117k in 220 theaters for a weekend gross of $117k and a domestic cume through Sunday of $4.4 million in week 17.<\/p>\n \n\tOther new openings<\/strong>: Mubi\u2019s How To Have Sex<\/em><\/strong> grossed $52k at four theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Austin. Molly Manning Walker\u2019s acclaimed debut expands to over a dozen new markets next week including Chicago, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago and Portland.<\/p>\n \n\tShree International\u2019s Indian action film Warning 2<\/em><\/strong> opened at 103 locations to a weekend debut of $517.8k, according to Comscore.<\/p>\n \n\tViva Pictures\u2019 French family animated film Jungle Bunch: Operation Meltdown<\/em><\/strong> debuted at $442.4k on 1,030 screens, also per Comscore.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two specialty films now in wide release hit the top ten this weekend with American Fiction at no. 8 and Poor Things, at no. 9 and claiming the mantle of the highest-grossing limited opening release of 2023. 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