Anthony Bourdain Biopic ‘Tony’ Sizzling At $5M Weekend, No. 7 Spot – Specialty Box Office
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- Tony (A24) landed at #7 in a massive expansion to 1,642 runs from under 40, earning $5 million for the weekend and lifting its cume to $6.6 million in week 3.
- Tony stars Dominic Sessa as a young Anthony Bourdain and Antonio Banderas as an early mentor, imagining a Cape Cod summer at a lobster restaurant; the film carries a 95% Rotten Tomatoes critics score, a 92% audience score, and a B+ CinemaScore.
- Tony played strongest in the South, Midwest, and West Coast and reached an older audience the source notes 'often continue to turn out for films later in their theatrical run' — pointing to legs rather than a fast burn.
- Spa Weekend (Black Bear) opened at #9 to roughly $3 million on just over 2,000 screens, starring Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Michelle Buteau, and Anna Faris as four childhood besties whose getaway goes sideways.
- Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma (Mubi, Jane Schoenbrun) rounded out the top 10 with $1.9 million on 1,036 screens for a $3.7 million cume, building on momentum from limited release in NY and LA.
- The Magic Faraway Tree (Vertical), an Andrew Garfield family film based on a beloved U.K. book series, debuted to $1.4 million at 1,611 theaters, with Cinemark's heartland locations and coastal big-city houses pacing the gross.
Why it matters: Tony's $5M weekend on a 1,642-run expansion is the kind of broad indie footprint A24 rarely deploys, and the older, geographically skewed audience the source flags suggests the film is banking on sustained turnout rather than opening-week urgency — a deliberate trade-off that buys it legs if word-of-mouth keeps spreading through the South and Midwest.
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