The Furious, Stop That Train Crack Domestic Top 10
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- The Furious from Lionsgate debuted at #8 with $2.75M on 1,251 screens, earning 97% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and 95% from audiences after a TIFF Midnight Madness premiere; Lionsgate acquired most worldwide rights excluding China, where it opened #1.
- Stop! That! Train! from Bleecker Street opened at #9 with $2M on 1,161 screens, a New York Times Critic's Pick starring RuPaul that drew multiple sellouts in major markets per producers World of Wonder.
- The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act from Fathom rounded out the top 10 in week 2 with $1.76M, pushing its cume toward $29M on 2,221 screens.
- Obsession from Focus Features, directed by YouTuber Curry Barker, held at #2 in week 5 with a cume topping $188M, while A24's Backrooms by Kane Parsons stayed at #4 with $160M in week 3.
- The Third Man — Carol Reed's 1949 noir starring Orson Welles, written by Graham Greene — earned roughly $19k in its 35mm rerelease, split between $11k at Film Forum in NYC and $8k at the New Beverly in LA.
- Underland, an Oscilloscope documentary by Robert Petit, narrated by Sandra Hüller and produced by Darren Aronofsky, grossed $1.4k on 2 screens in week 2 for an $8.5k cume.
Why it matters: Lionsgate's The Furious opened #1 in China while debuting #8 domestically, validating the studio's worldwide rights acquisition after a TIFF Midnight Madness pickup. The bigger specialty story is YouTuber-made genre horror — Obsession past $188M in week 5 and Backrooms past $160M in week 3 — reshaping which filmmakers can anchor sustained wide theatrical runs.
