Indie Film Box Office: ‘Club Kid’ Rocks Expansion

Club Kid delivered the best limited expansion of the year with $756k in week 2 on just 27 screens in a crowded specialty market, playing to an audience that was 80% under 35. Paper Tiger marks director James Gray’s highest per screen opening at $35.8k on 6 screens in New York and Los Angeles for a $215k gross, including sold-out director Q&As.

Gray shot the Neon crime thriller starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller on 35mm with the film screening in the format in both markets.

A24’s Club Kid, Jordan Firstman’s feature debut, delivered a $28k PSA for a cume of $1.45 million This was on par with Anora when it expanded and beat summer hit The Invite.

I Play Rocky from Amazon MGM Studios is eyeing $503.8 in a week 2 expansion at 29 locations for a domestic cume of $954k. The film by Peter Farrellycontinues to build strong word of mouth as it looks to a wide break this coming Friday.

Zachary Wigon’s horror thriller Victorian Psycho from Bleecker Street starring Maika Monroe, Jason Isaacs and Ruth Wilson opened wide on 1,206 screens to $1.08 million.

Mouse from IFC Films grossed $50k in a week 2 expansion at 375 screens for a cume of $103.56k.

Wild Horse Nine grossed $4.6 million on 2,175 screens in week 2 for a cume of $13.3 million and a no. 8 box office spot. The searchlight pictures film by Martin McDonagh starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell is reporting the strongest hold within the top 15 U.S. titles with a dip of only 22%.

Bitter Christmas Sony Pictures Classics’ latest from Pedro Almodovar, debuted to $37k on four screens. SPC holdover The Only Living Pickpocket in New York starring John Turturro is eying $323k in week 4 on 251 screens for a cume of $4.7 million.

Variance Films and Blue Harbor Entertainment’s event release of Jimmy Jenkins’ modern day Nativity parable God With Us opened to $885ik on 432 screens with Washington D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore and Philadelphia top markets. That gross is largely without Saturday or Sunday evening showtimes, although theaters have been adding them throughout the weekend. Originally programmed as a three showtime event engagement, after over 87 sold out shows (and counting) across the country and strong day-of business, God With Us has been extended and will remain in theaters throughout the holiday season.

Documentary ThreeASFOUR: FULL CIRCLE, Sean Ono Lennon’s feature directing debut on the eponymous design collective, opened to $7.7k at New York’s Film Forum via Assembly Releasing. Sold-out shows include Q&As with Lennon, threeASFOUR’s Gabi Asfour, Adi Gil and Angela Donhauser, and moderators Rosanna Arquette and Marisa Tomei.

Following a two-week run at Film Forum, the pic and Lennon will tour for limited and one-night engagements throughout December and January, beginning in Austin on December 6 and continuing to San Francisco, LA, Chicago and more cities.

Oscilloscope debuted Virgilio Villoresi’s Orfeo on 3 screens for a cume of $2.7k. The retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth is adapted from Dino Buzzati’s graphic novel Poema a fumetti.

Jimmy from Fathom Entertainment is anticipating $850k from 1,549 locations for a cume $4,173

Angel Studios’ Drummer Boy grossed $3.5 million at 2,528 locations for a cume of $16.2 million in week 2.

Packaged episodes of popular HBO Max series Heated Rivalry from Regal Entertainment Distribution is at a $150k weekend on 329 locations for a domestic cume of $1.97 million.