Cardio is good. Sony Pictures Classics’ 4k rerelease of Run Lola Run had a healthy weekend, opening to an estimated $154k on 275 screens. This is the 25th anniversary of the U.S. debut of Tom Tykwer’s German experimental thriller that sees flame-haired Lola (Franka Potente) on the move in Berlin, pounding the pavement to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks in 20 minutes to save her boyfriend’s life. (This was before the euro arrived). See Deadline interview here. A handful of rereleases/restorations have been box office stars post-Covid and this is another indie win.
A24’s Tuesday, a modern-day fairy tale with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, launched to $26k on two screens. Daina O. Pusic’s directorial debut premiered at Telluride. The modern-day fairy tale had sold out Q&As shows throughout the weekend and expands to a moderate nationwide footprint next week.
Utopia reunited with Shiva Baby (and Bottoms) star Rachel Sennott this weekend for I Used To Be Funny for one of Utopia’s strongest NYC openings to date with an estimated $15k weekend on one screen. Ally Pankiw’s SXSW-lauded directorial debut was the top-ranking film at the Quad Cinema (where Utopia opened Shiva Baby in 2021 and Sennott was dubbed “Queen of the Quad”.
I Used to Be Funny will hold there next week and open in LA (Fri. and Sat. shows are sold out at the Los Feliz 3) and nationwide to select theaters in the U.S. via Utopia and in Canada via LevelFilm.
Holdovers: Bleecker Street’s Ezra by Tony Goldwyn will gross $370k in its second weekend on 1,145 screens. It opened to about $1.18 million at 1,320 locations. Reviews were mixed but this does has 91% Rotten Tomatoes audience score.
IFC Films arthouse slasher In A Violent Nature took in $209k on 1,266 screens also in week two, an even steeper drop from opening week for a cume of $3.64 million as the film failed to connect with audiences, unlike other IFC’s other horror fare including smash Late Night With The Devil. This has great reviews but a 43% audience score.
Neon’s Spanish animated., Oscar-nominated Robot Dreams by Pablo Berger is looking at $53.6k on seven screen in week two for a a $100.4k cume.
Oscilloscope’s Flipside, a documentary by Chris Wilcha executive produced by Judd Apatow, saw $12.5k on nine screens in its second week for a cume of $26.5k.
In its sixth weekend, Sideshow/Janus Films’ release of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist continues to plug with an estimated $42k gross on 72 screens for new cume of $714k.