It was an upbeat closing weekend of 2025 with a trio of indies led by breakout Marty Supreme sitting pretty in the top ten and a handful of awards contenders putting up solid numbers in limited release as a movies and audiences appear to be connecting.
Park Chan-wook’s comedy thriller No Other Choice from Neon starring Lee Byung-hun grossed a terrific $313k for the three-day weekend and $625k for the four days at 13 theaters in 5 markets. The winner of the International People’s Choice Award at TIFF is the second collaboration between Neon and Park after the successful re-release of Oldboy in 2023. South Korea’s official selection for the 98th Academy Awards, on the shortlist for Best International Feature, follows a fired executive on a desperate hunt for a new job after his abrupt layoff from the paper company where he worked for 25 years.
Neon Chief Distribution Officer Elissa Federoff called the response “extraordinary, with audiences coming out in droves for a bold, timely film that feels especially resonant right now.” The indie studio/distributor is also playing The Secret Agent (in week 5), Sentimental Value (week 8) and It Was Just An Accident (week 11) at, respectively, 136, 82 and 15 theaters.
Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee debuted on 4 screens exclusively in 70mm (Village East, Lincoln Square in NYC; Landmark Sunset, AMC Burbank in LA) with $71k for the three-day weekend and $111k over the 4-day holiday frame. Amanda Seyfried stars as the founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers, who expressed their religion through spiritual ecstasy in dance and song. Distributor Searchlight Pictures featured live performances at Landmark Sunset with choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall and ten dancers, including three performers from the film, all wearing original costumes from the movie.
Expands in NYC and LA to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (35mm), Alamo Brooklyn (70mm), Jacob Burns Film Center in Westchester (35mm), SAG Harbor Cinema on Long Island (35mm), Alamo Downtown LA, Irvine Spectrum, AMC Americana, and AMC Tustin along with Chicago, Boston, Portland, Washington, D.C., Austin; Milwaukee; Nashville; Philadelphia; Toronto; Sacramento; Atlanta; New Orleans; Seattle; and Phoenix.
Searchlight’s Is This Thing On? by Bradley Cooper grossed $203k in a limited week 2 expansion to 33 screens for a cume of $511k. The film starring Will Arnett and Laura Dern expanded to Chicago (AMC River East, Landmark Century Centre), San Francisco (AMC Metreon and the AMC Kabuki), Washington DC (AMC Georgetown, Avalon, the Angelika Fairfax), Boston (Coolidge Corner, Brookline, AMC Boston Commons and the Landmark Kendall Square), Phoenix (Camelview) and Philadelphia (Hiway, Jenkintown, Bryn Mawr Film Center, and the Landmark Ritz).
And Mubi’s release of Jim Jarmusch’s Venice Golden Lion-winer Father Mother Sister Brother debuted to $48k for the three days and circa $95k for the five-day weekend on 4 screens in NY, LA and Montreal ahead of a national expansion Jan. 9. Stars Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat.
The Plague from IFC Films Entertainment Group opened to $21.2k for the three-day and $36.5k for the five-day holiday frame on 2 screens.
Wide indies: Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme smashed tracking expectations in a nationwide expansion delivering one of the biggest Christmas Days of all time for an R-rated film at a no. 32 spot on the top 10 after only Avatar: Fire and Ash and Zootopia 2. Launching on 2,668 screens, the film has grossed $28.3 million since its limited debut last week (the top per screen opening of 2025), including $27.1 million over the four-day holiday, making it A24’s biggest opening weekend ever. Certified Fresh at 95% on Rotten Tomatoes with two thirds of moviegoers under 35, the film starring Timothée Chalamet it’s received some of the strongest exit polls ever for an A24 release.
A24 holdover Eternity saw $244k for the three days and $321k for the four days on 203 screens for a cume of $15.5 million.
Animated David from Angel Studios is at no. 6 with a $12.7 million second weekend and pushing a $50 cume million on 3,000 screens. The film repped Angel’s best 3-day theatrical opening, surpassing Sound of Freedom and the highest faith-based animated opening, passing Angel’s The King of Kings and Prince of Egypt.
Craig Brewer’s Song Sung Blue from Focus Features starring Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman is riding an A CinemaScore and a Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score of 98%, to an estimated $7.6 million for the three-day weekend and $12 million for the four-days at 2, 578 theaters. It’s no. 8 at the box office. Stats show 65% female, 35% male; 87% of the audience was 35 years old and older; 53% of the audience was 55+. Focus says the film played well with major exhibitors and smaller regional circuits in the middle of the country over the weekend with Milwaukee-based Marcus Theaters more than 100% above its norms, as is Larry Miller Theaters, based in the Salt Lake City area.