Huge limited opening ...
Friday was $58k per theater. Just 6 theaters for $350k. OW should be about a million.
Wide (1500) opening next weekend, competing with No Hard Feelings and The Flash.
https://deadline.com/2023/06/asteroid-city-wes-anderson-box-office-focus-features-1235419761/
Asteroid City delivered a massive jolt to the arthouse and specialty world this weekend as the Wes Anderson film presented by Focus Features blew past records with an estimated $790k three-day gross and $890k estimated for the four-day weekend in just six theaters.
That’s a per-theater average of $132,211 for the three days, and $148,901 for the four, repping the biggest PTA of year, and since Covid, and for some years before. This helmer can energize the specialty box office like no other. His Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014 opened at $800k on four screens, for a PSA of $200k — still considered the one to top in absolute.