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‘Widow Clicquot’ Bubbly, ‘Thelma’ Passes $8 Million At The Specialty Box Office


'Widow Clicquot' looked strong amid summer blockbusters with Irish horror 'Oddity', and June Squibb's 'Thelma' still rocking the indie film box office.

Independents look solid this weekend with Vertical’s Widow Clicquot nice alternative programming amid summer blockbuster season, IFC Film horror Oddity off to a fine start, and Thelma, one of the year’s biggest specialty hits, passing $8 million. Haley Bennett stars as Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot in the true story of a 20-year-old woman who flouts convention by — after her husband dies — taking the reins of their wine business. The 93-year-old star plays a feisty grandma with Parker Posey her uptight daughter and Fred Hechinger a slacker grandson attracting an intergenerational audience to the Josh Margolin film.

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