Matt Stone & Trey Parker’s ‘Casa Bonita Mi Amor!’ Leads Doc Heavy Weekend

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https://deadline.com/2024/09/indie-films-opening-att-stone-trey-parker-casa-bonita-mi-amor-1236079962/

¡CASA BONITA MI AMOR! starts a limited run this weekend and has been racking up significant presales that promise one of the highest per-screen averages for a documentary since Covid at its first stop, Alamo Denver. Deadline hears theaters initially scheduled two shows a day but have been upping that to 4-5 shows, possibly with more to be added.

Directed by Arthur Bradford, the doc premiered at Tribeca where it won the audience award, and recently jam packed two screenings at Telluride. Sweet Relief, in association with MTV Documentary Films, are rolling it out to nine other markets next week, most Alamo Drafthouse theaters, including New York and LA.

Love for the iconic duo runs deep and this may also be a hopeful sign for docs, which have been slower to recover at the box office than other indies and studios fare.

Casa Bonita, called the “Disneyland of Mexican restaurants”, opened in 1974 in an unassuming Denver strip mall, a massive Old West and Acapulco-inspired fever dream made famous by its indoor waterfall, cliff divers, and haunted caves. The restaurant held mythic status for Stone and Parker (and endless other who grew up going there as kids) and was featured in a classic 2003 episode of South Park.

Debuts on Paramount+ this fall.