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A24’s ‘Materialists’, ‘Sorry, Baby’ Fly Indie Flag Amid Hollywood Crush – Specialty Box Office
A24’s ‘Materialists’ and Sorry Baby’ fly at the indie film box office amid Hollywood studio crush.
Materialists grossed $720k on 589 screens for an estimated three-day cume pushing $35.2 million — great staying power for a film that Deadline’s review called “sublime” starring Dakota Johnson as a high-end New York City matchmaker with Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal as former and new love interests. Also new this weekend, IFC Films’ Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story opened at 470 locations to $130k as the distributor continues a focus on moderate releases that have become increasingly rare in the marketplace and with fare that it can shepherd successfully through a family of streaming services led by Shudder. Written and directed by Embeth Davidtz based on Alexandra Fuller’s memoir of her childhood on a family farm in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) at the end of the Zimbabwean War for independence in 1980.
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