'Theater Camp' hit a high note at the box office

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The Sundance Award-winning original comedy from Searchlight Pictures Theater camp It would take in an estimated $281,172 or $46.9 thousand per theater in its six weekend opening locations – the distributor’s best limited opening since. Jojo Rabbit in the fall of 2019 ($349,000 across five locations). That’s after it led A CinemaScore on the Sunday ahead of Searchlight Anisherin from Inisherin Four theater debuts last year.

“The number was higher than Searchlight had predicted and the demographic mix was a surprise at over 50% in the 25-34 age group,” said Senior Vice President Frank Rodriguez. “We didn’t expect it. It was such a young crowd. We got a lot of old demos too. It’s a great place to be.”

AMC Lincoln Square and the Alamo Brooklyn lead the way with Theater camp In each booking comes the second-highest total for the weekend Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning. Topped off Angelika. Los Angeles locations are AMC Century City, Grove, and AMC Burbank. The movie is expanding to select markets next weekend including Austin, Chicago, Boston, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Toronto, then to 600-800 locations by August.

Tony Award winner Ben Platt and Molly Gordon star as lifelong best friends and drama teachers in a rundown theater camp in upstate New York that’s jeopardized when its founder (Amy Sedaris) is thrown into a coma by an unfortunate strobe light accident. Her tech son (Jimmy Tatro) arrives to run the property but he’s clueless, so the staff and students band together to create a masterpiece to keep their beloved summer camp afloat. The film is directed by Gordon and Nick Lieberman and written by Noah Galvin, Gordon, Lieberman and Platt, based on their short film, and won the American Dramatic Special Jury Prize: Ensemble at Sundance. The $8 million acquisition of Searchlight was one of the festival’s first and biggest. Starring Noah Galvin, Patty Harrison, Nathan Lee Graham, Ayo Edbery, Owen Thiele, with Caroline Aaron.

The biggest limited openings of the year, Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City It features Focus and Ari Aster’s Bo afraid From the A24, they both came with star casts and huge built-in propeller bases. Theater camp The comments are good (see deadline) but “there is no same name recognition for our stars,” Rodriquez said. spirits of the past The first time around, A24 director Celine Song became the company’s best, opening at $58,000 in early June.

Perhaps the timing helped, with the film slipping in between a task Last weekend and before Barbie And Oppenheimer the next.

Theater camp Producer Eric Feige is thrilled with the film’s theatrical reception “is itself a love letter to performance. It was built for this.” (Picturestart founder and former Lionsgate CEO was also behind it.) Cha Cha Real Smooth, which was sold to Apple for $15 million at Sundance 2022.)

While acknowledging that “the world has changed dramatically from last week to this week” since SAG-AFTRA joined the WGA for the sit-up ranks, he is optimistic about theatrics. “People go back, they get used to a community experience, they have [a film] As a topic for zeitgeist conversation. And that’s great no matter what.”

Other specialty slots: Sony Pictures classics Miracle Club It debuted at $679,976 on 678 screens for $1,003. Stars: Laura Linney, Maggie Smith, Stephen Rea, Kathy Bates, Mark O’Halloran. Directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan.

Christian Petzold a fire From Sideshow and Janus Films it grossed $39.2k on four screens, two each in New York and Los Angeles, at $9,800 per screen. The uplifting summer comedy won the Grand Jury Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival this year. Expand next weekend.

IFC Films Lakota Nation v. United States Hit the IFC Center in New York with an $8,000 opening. Lakota fight to take back the Black Hills. IFC, in association with XTR, has a grassroots campaign throughout Indigenous communities along with shows in urban centers as it prepares to expand next weekend.

Roadside attractions black ice It saw an estimated 3-day total of $26,225 on 144 AMC screens for $182.