Box office darling Anora, Sean Baker’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner from Neon, goes wide today after a slow platform, expanding to 1,104 screens as indies continue to bust onto screens.
Searchlight Pictures’ A Real Pain adds eight locations, with Focus Features’ Conclave and A24’s Heretic continuing, and launching, respectively, in wide release. A Real Pain starring Kieren Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg, who also wrote and directed, adds theaters in LA, NY and Toronto after a strong opening last weekend where it took the third highest per theater average of the year.
Goes to 900+ theaters across all major markets next week. Opening in moderate release: Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate’s launch of Artist Equity’s Small Things Like These starring Cillian Murphy at 795 theaters.
Directed by Tim Mielants and written by Enda Walsh, the film is based on the best-selling book of same name by Claire Keegan.
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