Focus Features landed another specialty success with , Paul Schrader’s biggest directorial opening in over 30 years since 1987’s Light of Day and with a likely No.
8 ranking at the North American box office this weekend.The film – starring Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe — ran in 580 theatres in 119 DMAs for a three-day estimate of $1.1 million and a per theatre average of $1,890.
It’s 86% Certified Fresh after festival premieres in Venice and Telluride.That’s the second-highest specialty opening of the year after documentary Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, also from Focus, which opened at nearly $2 million in 927 theaters (and finaled at $5.2 million).
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