IFC’s Good Boy starring Indy the dog had a good week 2 holding at 1,650 theaters with an estimated three-day gross of $1.36 million, a four-day gross of $1.6 million and cume of $5.1 million.
It’s the label’s second-best weekend hold after Late Night With The Devil in 2024 and the box office trajectory for the low-budget haunted house horror from a canine point of view continues to look solid. It opened to no. 9 last week and rounded out the top ten this weekend. Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh at 90% with critics, 83% with audiences.
Deadline reported last week that the supernatural thriller was parent IFC Entertainment Group’s third best opening weekend ever including RLJE’s topper Clown In A Cornfield. IFC acquired Good Boy for Shudder and had initially planned a more modest release. It pivoted after the trailer and poster in July racked up over 100 million views across the web. IFC took it wider and ramped up marketing.
The directorial debut of Ben Leonberg premiered at SXSW. Indy, who won the fest’s “Howl of Fame” award for Best Canine Performance, is his own pooch.
Roadside Attractions’ Kiss of the Spider Woman, the widest new indie opening, debuted to $918.8k at 1,330 theaters. Jennifer Lopez stars in the adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical from director Bill Condon.
New limited openings: Amazon MGM Studios saw $154.5 k for Julia Roberts-starring After The Hunt by Luca Guadagnino at six theaters in New York and Los Angeles, a solid per theater average of $25.7k. Expanding next week.
Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You from A234 opened to $89k on four screens in NY and LA for a PTA of $22.3k. Certified Fresh at 94% RT, the film with Rose Byrne (who won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at Venice) will continue to rollout in the weeks ahead.
Urchin from Jason Hellerstein’s new 1-2 Special is eyeing $42.2k from three locations for a per theater average of $14k and a cume of $42.2k. Harrison Dickinson’s feature directorial debut expands to more than 100 runs nationally on 10/17.
New Picturehouse debut Re-Election grossed $6.7k at one NYC location.
Expansion: Neon documentary Orwell: 2+2=5 by Raoul Peck grossed a nice $100k for the three day weekend in a week 2 expansion to 56 screens. At $108k for the four days for a cume $141.5.
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