'Pressure' Opens #7 with $5.75M, 'Tuner' Expands
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- Pressure (Focus Features), a D-Day drama directed by Anthony Maras and starring Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina and Damian Lewis, opened at #7 with $5.75 million on 1,829 screens, earning an A CinemaScore alongside 86% critics and 96% audience Rotten Tomatoes scores that the source says bode well for sustained adult-minded playability.
- Tuner (Black Bear), directed by Daniel Roher and starring Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman and Havana Rose Liu, expanded to 452 theaters in its second weekend with $1.7 million for a $1.8 million cume, with a 95% critics / 94% audience RT score driving continued strategic expansion.
- Two indie horror films from first-time directors — A24's Backrooms by Kane Parsons and Focus Features' Obsession by Curry Barker — topped the domestic box office as surprise 'global juggernauts' that drew young fans and jumped from the internet to the big screen.
- Neon's I Love Boosters from Boots Riley grossed $1.3 million in its second weekend on 1,300 screens for a ~$7.3 million cumulative.
- The Met: Live in HD's season-finale transmission of El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego grossed close to $1.7 million worldwide, including $763k in North America on 800 screens for a single Saturday matinee, with encore screenings set for June 3 (US) and June 20/22/24 (Canada).
Why it matters: Pressure's A CinemaScore and 96% audience rating give Focus Features sustained-run fuel in a weekend where adult-skewing indies typically struggle, while Tuner's 95% critics score positions Black Bear for further expansion. The bigger indie signal: two first-time YouTube-to-feature directors dominating the chart creates a new audience pipeline traditional specialty distributors will need to compete with for attention.
