Belfast, Kenneth Branaugh’s intensely personal story of one boy’s childhood in tumultuous late 1960s Northern Ireland, earned an estimated $1.8M in 580 locations this weekend for a PTA of $3,111 – a solid showing for a black-and-white film in a specialty market that’s waging what one distribution exec calls an “an inch-by-inch, week-by-week recovery.”The film stars Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe, Ciarán Hinds, Josie Walker, Jude Hill and Lewis McAskie and is Focus Features’ big Oscar contender after winning the TIFF People’s Choice Award.
Belfast was also a hit with fest-goers when it premiered at Telluride. Deadline review here.Focus said weekend polling demos were 52% female, 47% male.
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