‘Kinds Of Kindness’ With Emma Stone Set For Best Limited Opening Of 2024 – Specialty Preview
21.06.2024 - 18:35
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After knocking it out of the park with Poor Things last year, director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone are back at the box office in Kinds Of Kindness, which looks set to shake up a sluggish arthouse market with the best limited opening this year.
The best PTA in 2024 so far is The Taste Of Things from IFC Films, which debuted at $43.4k on three screens back in February. Kinds of Kindness at five locations in New York (Angelika, AMC Lincoln Square) and LA (AMC Burbank, AMC Grove, AMC Century City) will pull ahead of that, significantly perhaps. The market’s been odd so it’s hard to say by how much yet. Tune in Sunday.
Also this weekend, Thelma, a crowd pleaser with a terrific June Squibb, launches on 1,000 screens, the widest release ever by distributor Magnolia Pictures. A24’s Janet Planet, the first feature by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker, debuts in New York. Vertical also boasts its widest release with The Exorcism starring Russell Crowe.
Kinds Of Kindness world premiered at Cannes, see Deadline review, with Jesse Plemons winning Best Actor, then hit the global festival circuit. It was no. 1 in Lanthimos’ native Greece when it opened the weekend of May 30.
The film is divided into three different stories with the same cast — an anthology described as a “triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.” The stories are named The Death of RMF, RMF is Flying and RMF Eats a Sandwich – RFM being a silent, bearded man with a