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It was an upbeat closing play of 2025 pinch a trio of indies led by breakout Marty Supreme sitting beautiful successful nan apical 10 and a fistful of awards contenders putting up coagulated numbers successful constricted merchandise arsenic a movies and audiences look to beryllium connecting.
Park Chan-wook’s drama thriller No Other Choice from Neon starring Lee Byung-hun grossed a terrific $313k for nan three-day play and $625k for nan 4 days astatine 13 theaters successful 5 markets. The victor of nan International People’s Choice Award astatine TIFF is nan 2nd collaboration betwixt Neon and Park aft nan successful re-release of Oldboy in 2023. South Korea’s charismatic action for nan 98th Academy Awards, connected nan shortlist for Best International Feature, follows a fired executive connected a hopeless hunt for a caller occupation aft his abrupt layoff from nan insubstantial institution wherever he worked for 25 years.
Neon Chief Distribution Officer Elissa Federoff called nan consequence “extraordinary, pinch audiences coming retired successful droves for a bold, timely movie that feels particularly resonant correct now.” The indie studio/distributor is besides playing The Secret Agent (in week 5), Sentimental Value (week 8) and It Was Just An Accident (week 11) at, respectively, 136, 82 and 15 theaters.
Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee debuted connected 4 screens exclusively successful 70mm (Village East, Lincoln Square successful NYC; Landmark Sunset, AMC Burbank successful LA) pinch $71k for nan three-day play and $111k complete nan 4-day vacation frame. Amanda Seyfried stars arsenic nan laminitis of the devotional sect known arsenic nan Shakers, who expressed their belief done belief ecstasy successful creation and song. Distributor Searchlight Pictures featured unrecorded performances astatine Landmark Sunset pinch choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall and 10 dancers, including 3 performers from nan film, each wearing original costumes from nan movie.
Expands successful NYC and LA to nan Brooklyn Academy of Music (35mm), Alamo Brooklyn (70mm), Jacob Burns Film Center successful Westchester (35mm), SAG Harbor Cinema connected Long Island (35mm), Alamo Downtown LA, Irvine Spectrum, AMC Americana, and AMC Tustin on pinch Chicago, Boston, Portland, Washington, D.C., Austin; Milwaukee; Nashville; Philadelphia; Toronto; Sacramento; Atlanta; New Orleans; Seattle; and Phoenix.
Searchlight’s Is This Thing On? by Bradley Cooper grossed $203k successful a constricted week 2 description to 33 screens for a cume of $511k. The movie starring Will Arnett and Laura Dern expanded to Chicago (AMC River East, Landmark Century Centre), San Francisco (AMC Metreon and nan AMC Kabuki), Washington DC (AMC Georgetown, Avalon, nan Angelika Fairfax), Boston (Coolidge Corner, Brookline, AMC Boston Commons and nan Landmark Kendall Square), Phoenix (Camelview) and Philadelphia (Hiway, Jenkintown, Bryn Mawr Film Center, and nan Landmark Ritz).
And Mubi’s merchandise of Jim Jarmusch’s Venice Golden Lion-winer Father Mother Sister Brother debuted to $48k for nan 3 days and circa $95k for nan five-day play connected 4 screens successful NY, LA and Montreal up of a nationalist description Jan. 9. Stars Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat.
The Plague from IFC Films Entertainment Group opened to $21.2k for nan three-day and $36.5k for nan five-day vacation framework connected 2 screens.
Wide indies: Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme smashed search expectations successful a nationwide description delivering 1 of the biggest Christmas Days of each clip for an R-rated movie astatine a no. 32 spot connected nan apical 10 aft only Avatar: Fire and Ash and Zootopia 2. Launching connected 2,668 screens, nan movie has grossed $28.3 cardinal since its constricted debut past week (the apical per surface opening of 2025), including $27.1 cardinal complete nan four-day holiday, making it A24’s biggest opening play ever. Certified Fresh astatine 95% connected Rotten Tomatoes pinch 2 thirds of moviegoers nether 35, nan movie starring Timothée Chalamet it’s received immoderate of nan strongest exit polls ever for an A24 release.
A24 holdover Eternity saw $244k for nan 3 days and $321k for nan 4 days connected 203 screens for a cume of $15.5 million.
Animated David from Angel Studios is astatine no. 6 pinch a $12.7 cardinal 2nd play and pushing a $50 cume cardinal connected 3,000 screens. The movie repped Angel’s best 3-day theatrical opening, surpassing Sound of Freedom and nan highest faith-based animated opening, passing Angel’s The King of Kings and Prince of Egypt.
Craig Brewer’s Song Sung Blue from Focus Features starring Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman is riding an A CinemaScore and a Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score of 98%, to an estimated $7.6 million for nan three-day play and $12 million for nan four-days astatine 2, 578 theaters. It’s no. 8 astatine nan container office. Stats show 65% female, 35% male; 87% of nan assemblage was 35 years aged and older; 53% of nan assemblage was 55+. Focus says nan movie played good pinch awesome exhibitors and smaller location circuits successful nan mediate of nan state complete nan play pinch Milwaukee-based Marcus Theaters much than 100% supra its norms, arsenic is Larry Miller Theaters, based successful nan Salt Lake City area.
