Indies Vie For Bite Of Pie On Record Thanksgiving Weekend, See Some Love — Specialty Box Office
deadline.comA record-breaking Thanksgiving frame is lifting all boats, tentpoles the most evident, with boom, boom, boom for Moana 2, Wicked and Gladiator II.
Some 30 million moviegoers went to see one of these. In the weird post-Covid shift, tentpoles can slay, and indies can disappear.
This weekend, however, they didn’t. Audiences showed decent specialty support for films from Heretic and A Real Pain, to Conclave and even Latvian animated Flow.
Anora is still in theaters. Three indies graced the top ten. “It kind of seems like the first time that people go to the theater to see one film and then say, ‘let’s see that’” [too], says one indie distributor. “Not to mention the overall box office being huge … What worries me is that there are not enough screens to hold things.
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