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Roadside Attractions’ A Great Awakening nabbed nan no. 6 spot astatine nan home container agency pinch a coagulated $2.1 cardinal connected 1,298 screens. The Sight & Sound accumulation successful grant of America’s 250th day ths twelvemonth explores nan relationship betwixt firebrand preacher George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin, and really Franklin’s resulting nickname of nan domiciled of religion changed history.
The movie stars John Paul Sneed arsenic Franklin, Jonathan Blair arsenic Whitefield and is directed and co-written by Joshua Enck.
“We are very excited astir Roadside’s first business pinch producers Sight & Sound” connected A Great Awakening, said Roadside co-president Howard Cohen. “The movie showed successful our exit polls that it brought successful some faith-based viewers and history buffs.” It besides received an A+ Cinemascore, boding good for play successful nan weeks to come.
CinemaScore information showed nan assemblage astatine 79% 35+ and 57% female. Some 66% were attracted by nan taxable matter.
Top DMA was Harrisburg/Lancaster/York Pa. wherever Sight & Sound’s 2,000-seat theatre (in Lancaster) routinely sells retired a twelve shows a week for its faith-based unrecorded attractions. Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York, Houston, Phoenix, Minneapolis and Atlanta were different apical markets.
Leading theaters see Penn Cinema, Lititz PA; Regal Manor, Lancaster PA; Regal Downingtown, Downingtown PA; AMC Camp Hill, Camp Hill PA; Cinemark North Canton, North Canton OH; AMC Springfield, Springfield MO; Harkins Mountain Grove, Riverside CA; AMC Tyler, Tyler TX; Cinemark Tulsa, Tulsa OK; and Regal River Ridge, Lynchburg VA.
Noting Dhurandhar: The Revenge is connected its 3rd week successful nan apical ten, astatine no. 8, pinch $1.85 cardinal connected 464 screens arsenic it powered connected to a $26.2 cardinal cume. The Bollywood deed from Moviegoers Entertainment is nan apical grossing Indian movie ever astatine nan North American container office.
François Ozon’s Venice-premiering black-and-white adjustment of Albert Camus’ The Stranger from Music Box Films opened astatine Angelika Film Center and Film astatine Lincoln Center (top movie astatine some venues) for a $20.5k gross. The $10.25k per surface mean is nan champion opening for an Ozon movie successful much than a decade. It’s Music Box’s seventh outing pinch nan director, a business that extends backmost to Potiche successful 2011. Expands to LA, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and different markets adjacent weekend. Chicago, Boston, Phoenix and others travel connected April 17.
Holdovers: Greenwich Entertainment’s Fantasy Life jumped from 1 surface (NYC’s Angelika) to 215 theaters successful week 2 for an estimated $322k gross and a cume of $361.5k. Written and directed by Matthew Shear, who stars alongside Amanda Peet, nan drama recovered audiences crossed creation houses and commercialized crossover multiplexes. Expands into caller markets successful nan coming weeks.
Focus Features’ The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Aoocaloptimist grossed $271k from 635 theaters successful its 2nd play for an estimated cume to day astatine $1.2 million. Co-directed by Charlie Tyrell and Daniel Roher, nan documentary is told done Roher’s eyes arsenic a father-to-be connected a quest to understand some nan risks and nan imaginable of nan world his kid is astir to inherit.
IFC Films’ Forbidden Fruits grossed $271k connected 500 screens successful week 2 for a cume of $2 million.
