‘Moonage Daydream’ Rocks On Imax – Specialty Box Office
deadline.comBrett Morgen’s kaleidoscopic ode to David Bowie landed at no 10 in North America this weekend, singing up $1.225 million on 170 screens – exclusively Imax (159 U.S.
locations, 11 in Canada).The $7,207 PSA for the Neon distributed Moonage Daydream – expanding to about 600 screens next week — was the best of the ten, which all debuted on north of 2,000 screens.Directed, written and produced by Morgen, Moonage is the number one music doc opening post pandemic, and the best opening for a post-Covid documentary on less than 200 screens, second only to Roadrunner (Focus Features), which went out on 900+ screens its opening weekend in April of 2021.
Over the last 52 weeks, Searchlight Pictures’ The French Dispatch was the only film released (October, 2021) on fewer than 200 screens to surpass a $1.2M gross, Neon noted.
Morgen hosted nearly sold out Q&A’s opening weekend at the TCL Chinese Theater in LA.The doc took in $592k Fri./$373k Sat./$260k Sun.As noted in Friday’s column, Searchlight Pictures returned this weekend after a long theatrical hiatus (since Nightmare Alley last Dec.) to a solid $3.1M debut for See How They Run on 2,404 screens.
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