IndieWire each week exclusively shares a box office chart via Rentrak looking at the top 10 releases in specialized release, presented in full with added commentary.
Between two big specialized openings with “The Invite” and “Maddie’s Secret” last week, we didn’t get to shine a light on another indie that’s quietly picking up box office steam, Mark Jenkin’s “Rose of Nevada.”
Now in its third weekend in theaters, the film that stars George Mackay and Callum Turner has made $138K domestic, coming in at #3 on our specialized chart for the second week in a row. This weekend over July 4 it added 23 screens and went up 42 percent for a per-screen-average of $1,445. Internationally, the film has actually done exceptionally well and has already surpassed $1 million globally.
If you factor in the international, “Rose of Nevada” is already figuring to be one of the biggest hits for what is still an upstart art house distributor in 1-2 Special. It has easily surpassed the documentary “Time and Water,” which hasn’t reached as many screens but cropped up at #10 on our chart again, and domestically, it could be in line to perform similarly to this year’s “Erupjca” with Charli XCX. That film opened to $26K compared to “Rose’s” $23K, and it currently is at $233K in what is now its 12th week in theaters, according to the Rentrak data. 1-2 Special‘s “Silent Friend” is the distributor’s biggest domestic winner to date, having grossed $370K in what is now its 9th week in theaters.
“The Invite” from A24 again topped this week’s chart with a slow build to a wide release, adding just 21 locations, and it has reached $1.2 million with a still staggering $25,164 per-screen-average. And John Early’s “Maddie’s Secret” via Magnolia in its third week has now surpassed half a million domestic. It aggressively added 79 screens this week and went up 170 percent for a total cumulative haul of $505K. In fact the top four was the same as last week with “Peter Asher: Everywhere Man” also adding $40K.
The only film to qualify for the list that newly opened this week was “Mary Oliver: Saved By the Beauty of the World,” which is an “American Masters” documentary but was released theatrically by Kino Lorber before it debuts on PBS August 25. The film has made $29K to date, a solid result for a PBS documentary.
Top 10 Specialized Releases 7/3-7/5 (all figures are domestic results courtesy of Rentrak)
“The Invite” – $704,601
Distributor: A24
Week: 2
Avg/Location: $25,164
Cumulative: $1.273M
“Maddie’s Secret” – $212,543
Distributor: Magnolia
Week: 3
Avg/Location: $2,415
Cumulative: $505,511
“Rose of Nevada” – $49,132
Distributor: 1-2 Special
Week: 3
Avg/Location: $1,445
Cumulative: $138,806
“Peter Asher: Everywhere Man” – $40,123
Distributor: Greenwich Entertainment
Week: 3
Avg/Location: $979
Cumulative: $99,494
“Romeria” – $15,192
Distributor: Janus Films
Week: 2
Avg/Location: $2,344
Cumulative: $53,507
“Mary Oliver: Saved By the Beauty of the World” – $24,625
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Week: 1
Avg/Location: $6,156
Cumulative: $29,054
“7 Dogs” – $23,476
Distributor: SD Film Productions
Week: 2
Avg/Location: $1,118
Cumulative: $157,816
“Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul” – $7,727
Distributor: Variance Films
Week: 3
Avg/Location: $773
Cumulative: $424,930
“Time and Water” – $5,056
Distributor: 1-2 Special
Week: 6
Avg/Location: $421
Cumulative: $79,543
“Cielo” – $4,156
Distributor: Juno Films
Week: 2
Avg/Location: $2,078
Cumulative: $9,942
IndieWire’s criteria for inclusion on the Specialized Chart looks at independent and mini-major distributors with films that at their widest release at any point are below 500 screens, excluding event cinema, re-releases, and major Bollywood or Chinese North American releases.