Indie Specialized Box Office Chart: IFC’s Erotic Thriller ‘Night Nurse’ Gets Off to Strong Start
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- Night Nurse, IFC's psychosexual thriller directed by Georgia Bernstein, opened to $73,573 on approximately 330 screens for a $223 per-screen average, according to Rentrak data cited by IndieWire.
- Night Nurse slightly outpaced IFC's earlier similar release "Saccharine," which opened to roughly $64K from slightly more screens, suggesting the distributor's erotic-thriller bet is gaining traction.
- Maddie's Secret from Magnolia topped the specialized chart for a second week, adding $168K (a 21 percent drop) on 149 screens and pushing its domestic total to $817K in its fourth week.
- The Invite, last week's top specialized release, graduated off the chart by expanding to more than 1,000 screens.
- Other notable new specialized openings included Sean Bean action-Western The Isolate Thief ($19,400), Nigerian film Call of My Life ($13,575), and Barrio Triste — a Stillz and Harmony Korine EDGLRD collaboration — at $13,177.
- The IndieWire specialized chart tracks independent and mini-major releases below 500 screens at widest release, excluding event cinema, re-releases, and major Bollywood or Chinese North American releases.
Why it matters: IFC's "Night Nurse" beat the opening of its own earlier erotic thriller "Saccharine" ($64K) despite a lower per-screen average, giving the distributor a data point that provocative, Sundance-receptive indie fare can scale modestly on 300+ screens — a useful benchmark for other niche distributors calibrating limited-release rollouts.
