Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme is now the highest grossing restricted opening of the 12 months with an estimated $570k at simply six places in New York and LA for a per theater common of $95k. The Focus Options’ movie expands to 1,500 screens subsequent weekend.
The movie unseats A24’s Friendship which kicked the indie field into excessive gear a couple of weeks in the past with an amazing $445k restricted opening and $75k per theater opening for Andrew DeYoung’s function debut starring comic Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd.
The Phoenician Scheme, written by Anderson and Roman Coppola, stars Benicio del Toro as a household patriarch and enterprise titan beset by rivals and assassins, and Mia Threapleton as his daughter, a nun, whom he desires to inherit all of it. Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Ayoade, Rupert Buddy, Hope Davis, and Benedict Cumberbatch additionally star.
The Phoenician Scheme is the third main collaboration of Focus, Anderson, and Indian Paintbrush, who additionally partnered on Anderson’s most up-to-date function, Asteroid Metropolis (2023) as nicely Moonrise Kingdom (2012). It was produced by Anderson for his American Empirical Photos banner alongside longtime collaborators Steven Rales of Indian Paintbrush, Jeremy Dawson, and John Peet. The film was filmed in Germany in affiliation with Studio Babelsberg.
Asteroid Metropolis’s PTA of $132k was the largest in years and The Grand Budapest Resort in 2014 a record-setter at $200k.
Focus took over the Angelika Movie Heart in New York with the film on all six screens, a jazz band and Phoenician Scheme-themed merchandise and activations within the foyer and concessions – mirrored in larger ticket costs — $30 for normal and $60 for premium
NYC’s Alamo Brooklyn and AMC Lincoln Sq. and AMC’s The Grove, Century Metropolis and Burbank in LA are different opening theaters.
Different new openings: IFC Movies debuted UK interval thiller Twister to $130k at 412 theaters.
Music Field Fims opened Jonathan Millet’s function debut Ghost Path from Cannes 2024 with French-Tunisian star Adam Bessa at 4 places to $5.6k.
Holdover: Sony Photos Classics Jane Austen Wrecked My Life clocked $561k on 526 screens in week 2 (up from 61 final 12 months) for a cume of $977.5k.
Occasion cinema had a terrific weekend with the ultimate Met: Reside in HD transmission of the 2024–25 season, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, grossing $906k at about 800 cinemas in North America. Fathom distributes in most markets.
Trafalgar had a double-header with Saturday’s dwell worldwide broadcast of j-hope Tour ‘HOPE ON THE STAGE’ in JAPAN: LIVE VIEWING — the BTS solo star’s live performance from Osaka, Japan — on Saturday grossing $789k at 631 screens in North America.
The UK-based distributor’s collaboration with Hasbro was additionally out with Peppa Meets the Child Cinema Expertise globally together with 428 venues in North America that grossed $420k for Friday and Saturday.
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