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Utopia Launches ‘Pavements’ On ’90s Indie Band As Hybrid Music Doc/Satire Hits The Road – Specialty Box Office
Utopia's Alex Ross Perry-directed hybrid music documentary satire 'Pavements' hits the indie film box office ahead of a curated local, then national, rollout.
Utopia, which knows its way around a music documentary ( Meet Me In The Bathroom, Crestone) opened Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements at the Film Forum in NYC to $13.2k with sold-out Q&As and plans to roll the Venice-premiering satirical hybrid doc/mockumentary across key markets in May ahead of a national release June 6. Actual archival footage and interviews alternate with a movie-within-a-movie that has actors playing band members (Joe Keery as Stephen Malkmus; Fred Hechinger as Bob Nastanovich; Natt Wolff as Scott Kannenberg) and Jason Schwartzman as Chris Lombardi, founder of the group’s label Matador Records. Other indie openings: Greenwich Entertainment’s Bonjour Tristesse, a new adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s coming-of-age novel, had a terrific debut with $102.6k on 228 screens.
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