‘Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma’s Bloody Good Expansion As Indies Flex – Specialty Box Office
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- Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma grossed $907k at 54 theaters in week 2 for a $1.28 million cume, with Mubi's Mark Boxer attributing the run to Jane Schoenbrun's growing fanbase, the "Gillian factor" (Anderson, of The X-Files), Cannes premiere cachet, standout reviews, and a social-media surge.
- Mubi expanded the Schoenbrun film into NY, LA, and the top 15 U.S. markets at a mix of arthouses and commercial multiplexes — with sold-out shows from lunchtime to midnight — and plans to push it to roughly 500 screens next week, per Boxer.
- Indie and specialty titles collectively generated at least $16 million, or 10% of an estimated $160 million weekend per Rentrak, a "meaningful share" driven by "breadth and depth" rather than any single breakout, per Comscore's Paul Dergarabedian.
- KATSEYE: Wild Hearts (Trafalgar Releasing), a music event film, opened at no. 5 with an estimated $4 million from 724 theaters, while SIX: The Musical Live! (Focus Features) opened at $3 million across 1,462 theaters.
- Vishwanath & Sons (Shloka Entertainment), an Indian Telugu title, rounded out the top 10 at $1.635M from 350 theaters, and Your Name: 10th Anniversary (GKids) landed at $1.58 million on 675 screens.
- Watermelon Pictures' documentary American Doctor opened to $40k at NYC's Angelika — the highest per-screen average for a documentary since Watermelon's The Encampments debuted there in March 2025.
- A24's Tony, the Anthony Bourdain biopic, grossed $707k from 37 screens in its second limited weekend for a domestic cume of $1.2 million.
Why it matters: In one weekend, ten specialty titles contributed 10% of the gross across arthouses and commercial multiplexes, with Mubi's *Camp Miasma* expansion and event cinema from KATSEYE and SIX pulling strong numbers on wide counts. For indie distributors, it's concrete evidence that slate depth — not a single breakout — can move alongside the tentpoles.
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