Everest Doc And ‘Breeder’ Anchor Indie Frame With Few New Releases – Specialty Preview — SkimNews
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- Everest: The Other Side follows elite ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson attempting the first successful ski descent of Everest’s direct North Face after stops at Venice, Telluride and TIFF; it plays in theaters and Imax across 551 locations, and IndieWire’s review headline likewise foregrounds grief and the route’s deadly challenge.
- Breeder opened Wednesday in 777 theaters, held that count into the weekend with about $275K, and sits at 86% on Rotten Tomatoes from 37 reviews following its Tribeca premiere.
- Christmas At The Kringles is out on 1,825 screens and Sight & Sound Presents: Joshua Live! launches on 1,230, making the horror-comedy and faith-based family musical the only new indie wide releases; Halloween falls on Saturday this year.
- Netflix debuted The Mosquito Bowl as its second official box-office entry; Sony Pictures Classics expanded The Only Living Pickpocket to 1,112 screens, while Mubi expanded Fatherland to 45, coming off two Gotham nominations that week.
- Paging Hezbollah launches on 250+ screens and traces how pager devices were engineered, marketed and smuggled into Hezbollah’s communications network during Israel’s September 2024 operation; Justin Folk interviews Netanyahu, Mossad Director David Barnea and General David Petraeus.
- Who Killed Alex Odeh? opens at the Quad in New York, Uprising Theater in Chicago and Laemmle Glendale in Los Angeles before national expansion, using long-buried records and a renewed investigation to revisit Palestinian American teacher and community leader Alex Odeh’s unsolved 1985 tripwire-bomb killing.
Why it matters: For indie distributors, screen access is concentrating in two new wide films: Christmas At The Kringles reaches 1,825 screens and Joshua Live! 1,230. Breeder remains at 777 theaters while Everest has 551 locations, giving the crowded slate breadth without equivalent distribution.
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