{"id":334950,"date":"2025-10-27T00:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334950\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:35:12","slug":"bugonia-sees-strong-landing-top-5-per-screen-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334950\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Bugonia’ Sees Strong Landing, Top 5 Per Screen Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBugonia<\/a><\/strong>, the latest from Yorgos Lanthimos, had a great opening weekend as awards season hopefuls including It Was Just An Accident<\/strong> and The Mastermind<\/a><\/strong> saw solid expansions at the specialty box office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe alien thriller starring Emma Stone, landed at $690k on 17 screen in eight markets \u2014 translating to a per theater average of\u00a0$40.6k for Focus Features.\u00a0Expands wide next weekend.\u00a0Bugonia\u2019s PTA is up there, at no. 5 this year, following The Phoenician Scheme at $95k (also from Focus), The Encampments, Friendship and Love, Brooklyn. <\/p>\n

\n\tLanthimos\u2019 much decorated 2023 Poor Things opened in nine theaters\u00a0for a PSA of about $72k. Kinds of Kindness\u00a0last year booked a $75k per screen average at five locations.<\/p>\n

\n\tBugonia, also starring Jesse Plemons, Alicia Silverstone, Stavros Halkias and Aidan Delbis, was written by Will Tracy and follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company (Stone), convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying earth. Producers are Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Lanthimos, Stone, Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen and Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum KoAri.<\/p>\n

\n\tThamma<\/strong> from Yash Raj Films grossed $568k at 405 theaters for domestic cume through Sunday of $905. The Hindi romantic comedy-horror by Aditya Sarpotdar see two lovers battling supernatural forces, family ties, and nature itself to defend their forbidden romance in a mystical world.<\/p>\n

\n\tJustin Lin\u2019s Last Days<\/strong> from Vertical opened to $161k on 312 screens.<\/p>\n

\n\tIFC Films zombie horror comedy Queens of the Dead<\/a><\/strong> by Tina Romero debuted to $66.6k at 150 theaters.<\/p>\n

\n\tEmma Lo\u2019s documentary Mistress Dispeller<\/a><\/strong> from Oscilloscope opened to $23k on 3 screens \u2014 IFC Center (as of Wednesday) and Laemmle\u2019s NoHo and Monica Film Center on Friday earning<\/p>\n

\n\tHoldovers<\/strong>: Richard Linklater\u2019s Blue Moon<\/strong> from Sony Pictures Classics, starring Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale, Margaret Qualley and Andrew Scott, saw $586k in a big jump to 870 screens and cume of $687k in week 2. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMubi\u2019s The Mastermind<\/strong> by Kelly Reichart and starring Josh O\u2019Connor grossed $266.5k expanding to 186 locations for a cume of $665.6k. Recalling current headlines out of Paris, three art thieves wander into a museum in broad daylight and steal four paintings. NY and LA continued to hold strong with sold out shows across the cities, Mubi said. Top expansion markets included San Francisco, Boston, Portland, DC, and Chicago with strong sales at runs in Orlando, Denver, Atlanta, Pittsburgh and more. The film, Reichart\u2019s widest release, will expand into November.<\/p>\n

\n\tMary Bronstein\u2019s If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You<\/strong> from A24\u00a0grossed $152.5k on 64 screens for a $527.6 cume. Star Rose Byrne won the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance at Berlin.<\/p>\n

\n\tNeon\u2019s Cannes Palme d\u2019Or-winning thriller It Was Just An Accident<\/strong> by Iranian director Jafar Panahi saw $102.6k this weekend in a limited expansion to 11 screens for an estimated cume through Sunday of $250.9k. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bugonia, the latest from Yorgos Lanthimos, had a great opening weekend as awards season hopefuls including It Was…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":334951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[165819,99580,171,165820,165821,45209,81627,165822,94637,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-334950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bue-moon","9":"tag-bugonia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-if-ihad-legs-id-kick-you","12":"tag-mistress-dispeller","13":"tag-queens-of-the-dead","14":"tag-specialty-box-office","15":"tag-thama","16":"tag-the-mastermind","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115443330255501801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}