‘Late Night With The Devil’ Summons Big Opening Weekend For IFC Films

Shame that trashy nun horror Immaculate came out ahead.

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IFC’s Late Night With The Devil has scared up the distributor’s largest opening weekend ever with an estimated $2.8+ million on 1.043 screens, coming in at no. 6 at the domestic box office.

Prior to this weekend, Watcher was IFC’s top opening film at $827k, followed by Skinamarink with $819k and Blackberry at $801k. Late Night was IFC’s widest opening since The D Train (1,009), the distributor said, noting it was IFC’s highest opening day ($437k) since Skinamakink, and its highest Thursday pre-show ($317k). The film by Australian duo Colin and Cameron Cairnes unfolds almost in real-time on the set of a 1977 late-night talk show broadcast that unexpectedly transforms from amusing to sinister, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms. Stars David Dastmalchian (The Suicide Squad, Oppenheimer) as talk show host Jack Delroy.

“We are excited that so many people came out to see this horror film,” Shooman said. “Late Night With The Devil continues to showcase that there is still potential for highly reviewed, intelligent auteur films in movie theaters across all genres.”