starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez at four theaters in NYC and LA for an estimated three-day gross of $34,000 and per-theater-averages of $8,500 for the comedy directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat following it U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Festival last week.
The film, world premiered in competition at Venice. It expands to Boston, Miami, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. next week before breaking nationwide on July 1“We’re so thrilled this comedic gem connected with U.S. audiences and we look forward to its continued successful rollout,” said IFC Films president Arianna Bocco.in a wide for specialty opening of 279 theaters for a three-day estimated gross of $198,000, or $711 PTA. It is no.
Jim Archer’s quirky British feature about a down-and-out inventor who builds and befriends a robot at Sundance had its UK premiere as the closing night film of the Sundance Film Festival: London last weekend where it received the festival’s Audience Award. Backed by Universal Pictures International’s global theatrical reach, it moves to the U.K. on July 8.
“The film will continue to find its audience in the coming weeks,” said Lisa Bunnell, Focus Feature’s President of Domestic Distribution. Distributors have been experimenting with releases patterns, continuing to balance slower-build platform releases to garner word of mouth, with opening wider when theaters are available and they can digitally target an audience and get them in without too much cost.opened in 260 locations to a debut weekend of $117k for a PTA of $425 and a cume of $174k through Sunday.by Cooper Raiff opened in select theaters but the streamer doesn’t release grosses.