A Bow To Bowie As Arthouse Film Biz Faces Reckoning – Specialty Box Office
deadline.comBrett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream swept up a cool $922,000 at the domestic box office this weekend, while an impressive array of top industry players took Saturday to mull the global future of arthouse film.
The real test — of specialty’s core adult audience willingness to return to cinemas — starts this fall, according to execs at the Zurich Summit, an in-person event straddling the Zurich Film Festival.A24 acquisitions and distribution specialist David Laub, and Sierra/Affinity executive Kristen Figeroid said it’s been hard to get a picture of what older audiences will do in a more normalized situation.
Last fall, there were highly infectious new Covid variants in the news. This fall, there aren’t (or so it seems). Last fall, there were few new films.
Now the flow of content is much steadier and there have been some standouts (Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris). Young people have returned to cinemas, including to indie fare (led by A24’s smash hit Everything Everywhere All At Once) if it skews younger.
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