‘Memoir Of A Snail’ & ‘Conclave’ Debut; A Soft-Side-Of-Donald-Trump Doc Takes On ‘The Apprentice’ – Specialty Preview
deadline.comIndie releases from limited (Memoir of a Snail) to wide (Conclave) are testing an increasingly lively specialty box office heading into awards season with a handful of decorated documentaries this week including Dahomey, Black Box Diaries, My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock and Another Kind of Wilderness and some notable expansions.
Also hitting theaters this weekend, a new documentary showing the soft side of Donald Trump, The Man You Don’t Know, whose producers are crying foul, saying a number of theaters have bailed on opening weekend. Expansions: Anora, Neon’s Cannes Palme d’Or-winning film by Sean Baker, expands to 35 screens after posting 2024’s top limited opening of $550,000 on six screens.
It heads into week 2 with a $752,400 cume. Utopia’s The Line goes from one screen to 55, and High Tide from Strand Releasing expands from NYC to Los Angeles at the Laemmle’s Royal and NoHo 7.
A24’s We Live In Time starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh breaks wide in week 3. Memoir of a Snail from IFC Films is the second feature from Academy Award winning claymation animator and director Adam Elliot, who won Best Animated Short Oscar for Harvie Krumpet in 2004.
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