After knocking it out of the park with Poor Things last year, director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone are back at the box office in Kinds Of Kindness, which looks set to shake up a sluggish arthouse market with the best limited opening this year.
The best PTA in 2024 so far is The Taste Of Things from IFC Films, which debuted at $43.4k on three screens back in February.
Kinds of Kindness at five locations in New York (Angelika, AMC Lincoln Square) and LA (AMC Burbank, AMC Grove, AMC Century City) will pull ahead of that, significantly perhaps.
The market’s been odd so it’s hard to say by how much yet. Tune in Sunday. Also this weekend, Thelma, a crowd pleaser with a terrific June Squibb, launches on 1,000 screens, the widest release ever by distributor Magnolia Pictures.
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