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‘Kneecap’ Is Jamming, ‘Didi’, ‘Sing Sing’ & ‘CatVideoFest’ Buoy Varied Arthouse Market – Specialty Box Office


The indie film box office is showing breadth with great debuts for 'Kneecap' and 'CatVidoFest' and holdovers 'Didi' and 'Sing Sing' in limited release.

As more wide releases and tentpoles show up and take flight a rising tide may be raising indie boats – maybe not as much or as many as distributors hope, but some. Theater chain CEOs on quarterly earnings calls last week insisted they need all kinds of movies and that’s what they’re getting, including Indian specialty fare that continues to pop at the box office. The Sundance film follows Max (newcomer Ruaridh Mollica) as a 25-year-old writer living in London who moonlights as a sex worker under the pseudonym Sebastian as research for his debut novel.

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