Joachim Trier’s Int. Oscar Nominee ‘The Worst Person In The World’ Zooms Past $1M In Week 3 – Specialty Box Office
deadline.comNeon’s standout romance about a young woman in Oslo churning though career choices and boyfriends passed $1 million this weekend on 265 screens, up from 49.
With marketing in high gear and strong word of mouth, the Oscar Best International Feature nominee will continue to expand next week.Worst Person grossed $500,299 for three days (Friday-$140,281; Saturday-$191,948; Sunday $168,000) for a PSA of $1,888 and a cume of $1.1 million, continuing to draw auds to its mix of pathos, humor, insight and strong storytelling.
It crossed the $1M mark in just three weeks with a limited print count — faster than other recent specialized fare of note, the distrib observed, from Parallel Mothers and Red Rocket to Drive My Car and C’mon C’mon.An est. $93,500 Presidents Day brings the pic’s 4-day holiday weekend to a $593,729 gross, $2,240 PSA and cume over $1.2M.The film, whose star Renate Reinsve won Best Actress at Cannes where it premiered, shot out of the gate Feb.
6, jolting a hard to please specialty market whose core older demos have been slow to return to theaters. It grossed $135,042 in Week 1 at four NY/LA theaters for a popping per screen average of $33,768. (It’s received two BAFTA nominations, Best Foreign Language Film and Actress for Reinsve.)Neon had cited early presales and social traction for Worst Person launching with the highest PSA of any foreign language film of the past two years after Parasite and Portrait of a Lady on Fire; in the top 20 PSAs of all time for a foreign language film; and the largest opening for any Norwegian film.
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