Great news to report as last weekends indie film box office receipts proved to be stellar for Richard Press’s Bill Cunningham New York and Tom McCarthy’s Win Win both averaging over $30,000 as Hollywood's LCD (least common denominator) films are flat and stagnant as a fresh idea or plot development meeting at The Ivy.
Bill Cunningham debuted at New York’s Film Forum with a one day gross of $8,535, breaking the theater’s opening day record previously held by Control Room. Bill continued to do fantastic sales over the weekend, taking in $33,744, bringing its five day total to $49,103. Bill is a look through the camera lens of 80 year old New York Times photographer, Bill Cunningham, who has been bicycling around New York City for 40 years documenting fashion trends on the street by day and capturing New York’s social scene at night.
Tom McCarthy’s Win Win is another weekend big winner. According to estimates, the high school wrestling dramedy, which stars Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan Bobby Cannavale, grossed $153,615 from 5 theaters in New York and Los Angeles. That made for a $30,723 per-theater-average, topping the debuts of both of McCarthy’s other films - 2008’s The Visitor and 2003’s The Station Agent. Win Win will open 6 new markets March 25th adding 18 theaters.
Also debuting this weekend was National Geographic’s release of Sherry Horman’s Desert Flower, which took in $8,039 from 3 screens, averaging just $2,680. Desert Flower is the true story of model Waris Dirie and unfolds Waris's journey from Somalia, to London, to the heights of the international fashion scene. Desert Flower is on my "Greenlight Must See List."
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