A24's 'Tony' Lands at No. 7 With $5M Weekend — SkimNews
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- A24's Tony expanded from under 40 to 1,642 runs and landed at No. 7 with a $5M weekend in week 3, bringing its cume to $6.6M for the Matt Johnson film starring Dominic Sessa as a young Anthony Bourdain and Antonio Banderas as an early mentor.
- Tony holds a 95% Rotten Tomatoes score and a 92% audience score with a B+ CinemaScore, playing strongest in the South, Midwest, and West Coast to an older audience with strong word-of-mouth across age demos.
- Black Bear's Spa Weekend opened at No. 9 with an estimated $3M on over 2,000 screens; the ensemble comedy stars Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Michelle Buteau, and Anna Faris as three childhood besties whose spa getaway descends into chaos.
- Mubi's Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma, directed by Jane Schoenbrun and starring Gillian Anderson and Hanna Einbinder, rounded out the top 10 with $1.9M on 1,036 screens in its nationwide week 3 expansion, lifting its cume to $3.7M.
- Vertical's The Magic Faraway Tree, a family film based on a beloved U.K. book series and starring Andrew Garfield, debuted to $1.4M at 1,611 theaters, playing strongest on the coasts at NYC's AMC Lincoln Square, LA's AMC Century City, and Sacramento's Cinemark Blue Oaks.
- Prathyangira's Telugu family actioner Irumudi (Shiva Nirvana) opened to roughly $1M at 345 locations, while Focus Features' sci-fi drama Hot Spot debuted to $250k at 268 locations and Abramorama's storm-chasing doc Never Stop Chasing with Reed Timmer opened to $164k at 126 theaters.
Why it matters: Tony's week-3 $5M haul on 1,642 runs with a 95% RT score and B+ CinemaScore shows specialty releases can build real legs through word-of-mouth — for A24, a $6.6M cume on an original Bourdain coming-of-age drama signals appetite for non-franchise specialty fare. The Magic Faraway Tree debuting to just $1.4M at 1,611 theaters, meanwhile, hints at the ceiling for unproven family IP in specialty distribution.
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