Dhurandhar: The Revenge from Moviegoers Entertainment cleaned up with a $10 million weekend and a no. 3 ranking on 987 screens for a gross of $14 million (including Wed. peeks and Thursday shows) for one of the biggest opening weekends ever for a Bollywood film in North America, beating winner Pathaan (2023) which opened to $6.9 million (Fri-Sun.) and $9.5 million (Wed.-Sun.). The four-hour epic by by Aditya Dahr is the sequel to Dhurandhar ($20 million in North American) and starsRanveer Singh as an undercoverIndian intelligenceagent working to infiltrate Pakistani politics and Karachi’scriminal syndicates.
PG animated The Pout-Pout Fish from Viva Kids is looking at a nice $1.5 million on 1,854 screens and a no. 9 spot. Based on the NY Times bestselling Macmillan picture-book series by Deborah Diesen, it follows two aquatic misfits as they embark on an impossible journey to save their home. Voice cast includesNick Offerman,Nina Oyama,Jordin Sparks, Amy Sedaris, Miranda Otto andRemy Hii.
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MET Opera: Tristan und Isolde rounded out the top 10 with $772k at 709 locations for one live screening Wagner’s meditation on love and dead with soprano Lise Davidsen and tenor Michael Spyres. The event marks a new Met-debut staging by opera director Yuval Sharon and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met.Stateside, the Met partners with Fathom on distribution. The series is also beamed live internationally and grossed $1.48 million worldwide.
The live transmission was directed for cinema by Gary Halvorson and hosted by soprano Lisette Oropesa.Encore screenings will play in select U.S. cinemas on March 25 and Canadian cinemas on April 11, 13, and 15.
Limited releases: Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3from 1-2 Special opened to $36.7k at three theaters in NY and LA. Debuts in Boston, Chicago, Austin, San Francisco next week with a national expansion continuing throughout April.
Limited: Sofia Coppola’s Marc by Sofia opened at $46.8k on 2 NCY screens. Coppola’s first documentary, which world premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival, captures fashion icon Marc Jacobs as he prepares his 2024 spring collection, offering an intimate and behind the scenes look at his fascinating creative process. Expands into top markets next weekend.
Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine ’36 saw $36k exclusively at the Angelika, also a nice showing for just one screen with limited showtimes, the top grossing film at the complex.
Dead Lover, the debut release from new indie distribution partners Cartuna x Dweck, opened exclusively at New York’s IFC Center to $13.5k, the top-grossing film at the complex. The horror-comedy entered the weekend with multiple sell-outs and considerable buzz around its odorous Stink-O-Vision shows, an alternate scratch-and-sniff version of the film – one of the first films to use the technology since 2011. Adds LA’s Laemmle Glendale next weekend ahead of a 4/3 U.S. expansion and Canadian opening.
Late Shift from Music Box Films by Petra Volpe grossed $14.3k at six theaters opening weekend, including a 2025 qualifying run and advance shows.
Janus Films opened Sergei Loznitsa’s political thriller satireTwo Prosecutorsat NY’s Film Forum on a single screen with a total weekend cume of$13.3k. Expands to LA, SF, and DC on March 27 and nationwide throughout April and May. Loznitsa will be appearing in-person at Q&As this coming week at Laemmle Glendale and Royal in LA, as well present for retrospective screenings at LA’s American Cinematheque.
Moderate: Tow from Roadside Attractions debuted to $131k on 180 screens.