Horror movies topped the domestic box office charts and the Oscar contender “Anora” got off to a sparkling start this weekend.
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Horror movies topped the domestic box office charts and an Oscar contender got off to a sparkling start this weekend.“Smile 2" was the big newcomer, taking first place with a better than expected $23 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Parker Finn returned to write and direct the sequel to the supernatural horrorhis debut. Originally intended for streaming, Paramount pivoted and sent the movie to theaters in the fall of 2022.
One of the other brightest spots of the weekend was Sean Baker’s “Anora,” which opened in six locations in New York and Los Angeles and earned an estimated $630,000. That’s a $105,000 per theater average, the best since “Asteroid City’s” $142,000 average last summer. The Neon release, a sensation at Cannes and a likely Oscar contender, stars Mikey Madison as a New York sex worker who falls for the son of a Russian oligarch.Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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