‘Anora’ Rocks Best Per Screen Opening Of 2024

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Written by Jill Goldsmith

Great indie numbers this weekend as Anora turned out highest per-screen-average of 2024 at $90k on six screens for a $540k gross. We Live In Time, the best platform expansion of the year, grossed $4.2 million on 956 screens in week 2 for a $4.5 million cume. Newcomers Union and The Line fared well on one screen each, as did Goodrich on about 1,000.

“We’re incredibly excited about this weekend’s record-breaking results and the fantastic critical and audience response to Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning film Anora. Baker is a singular director who truly understands the power of the theatrical experience and how important it is for films to be seen in the theater,” Neon said. “With Mikey Madison in her unparalleled performance as Anora, and the film’s strong awards potential, there’s no doubt it will continue to captivate a broad audience as we move into the fall.”

The highest PSA of the year is now that $90k from Lincoln Center, Angelika and Alamo Brooklyn in NY, and, in LA, the Grove, Century City and Burbank in LA. It was no. 1 at all locations. Kinds Of Kindness at $75k per screen when it opened in June was the previous 2024 PSA record holder, with Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone fresh off the buzz and box office of Poor Things.

Anora, which sits at 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, also hit the second highest PSA post-pandemic behind only Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. It is in the top 5 PSAs of the last five years alongside Neon’s Palme d’Or and Oscar Best Picture-winner Parasite as well as Asteroid City, Uncut Gems and The Favourite.

Critical and audience acclaim has put the film on the same trajectory Parasite, Neon says.

The film by Bong Joon-ho was a major arthouse crossover, grossing $53 million domestic.

Written and directed by Sean Baker, produced by Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, and Sean Baker, the film stars Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yuriy Borisov, Karren Karagulian and Vache Tovmasyan in a comedic variation on a modern-day Cinderella story.

Madison (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) is Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the impetuous son of a Russian billionaire. However, when Vanya’s parents catch wind of the union, they send their henchmen to annul the marriage, setting off a wild chase through the streets of New York.

 

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