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Coraline 15th Anniversary notched a nice no. 5 at the domestic box office with $8.63 million for the three-day weekend on 1,603 screens. The cume of $11.6 million including Thursday broke its previous record for Fathom Events. Last year, the stop-motion animated feature by Henry Selick became the…

Cuckoo is looking at a $3+ million opening, not a Longlegs debut ($22 million) but on target for Neon's Alpine-set horror starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens.   R-rated Cuckoo by Tilman Singer opened at 1,503 theaters for 9th place at the domestic box office. Schafer is great as troubled…

The indie/arthouse market is showing some breadth as Kneecap has a great debut, CatVidoFest as well, and holdovers like Didi and Sing Sing are kind of raking it in considering how few screens they're on. As more wide releases and tentpoles show up and take flight a rising tide may be raising indie boats…

As anticipated on Friday, Nicolas Cage starring Longlegs, pushing a $6.7 million weekend on 2,730 screens — for a cume of $58.6 million in week 3 — has surpassed Parasite's $53.37 million to become the indie distributor's highest grossing film ever. Now in week 3, the Osgood Perkins pic is also the…

Independents look solid this weekend with Vertical's Widow Clicquot nice alternative programming amid summer blockbuster season, IFC Film horror Oddity off to a fine start, and Thelma, one of the year's biggest specialty hits, passing $8 million. New films and holdovers in limited release did…

A24's drama Sing Sing starring Colman Domingo turned out the third highest limited opening and per screen average of the year so far, and Touch from Focus Features by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur has a nice opening. Indian 2 marks the third straight week with one or more Indian films in the top…

There wasn't a lot new opening this weekend specialty-wise but few notable holdovers continued to crank in moderate release, namely Kalki 2898 AD, which is on fire, as well as Thelma and Kinds of Kindness. Kalki will end at No. 8 on 925 screens in week two, the second weekend in the top 10 for the Tel…

Two Indian films flexed at the domestic box office — and when they hit they really do hit, buoying exhibitors through good times and bad — with Kinds Of Kindness hitting no. 10 in a major expansion and Thelma not far behind. Kalki 2898 AD, a Telugu sci-fi epic from Prathyangira Cinemas, is looking at…

It was an Inside Out specialty weekend, fairly quiet and with a stream of indies films and more wide releases. The schedule is starting to recover from a strike-induced slump that, however, provided oxygen to some indies. Small films have been competing for screens with majors at arthouses from…

EXCLUSIVE: Film-focused tech firm Gathr is rolling out a pay-it-forward distribution model with what the company says is greater transparency than schemes like the one used by Angel Studios on 2023 blockbuster Sound of Freedom. A handful of films are set to deploy the model in the coming months: Brown…

Cardio is good. Sony Pictures Classics' 4k rerelease of Run Lola Run had a healthy weekend, opening to an estimated $154k on 275 screens. This is the 25th anniversary of the U.S. debut of Tom Tykwer's German experimental thriller that sees flame-haired Lola (Franka Potente) on the move in Berlin, pounding…

In A Violent Nature, an undead murderous monster’s slow striding through the woods, has generated IFC Films' second-best opening ever since its indie horror hit Late Night With The Devil in March. The artsy slasher written and directed by Chris Nash will see an estimated weekend gross of $2.1 million…