Three contestants on The Traitors have won the game and split the prize money after an intense finale.
05.12.2022 - 01:27 / deadline.com
Focus Features’ Spoiler Alert opened on six screens (in NY, LA, San Francisco) to an estimated $85k, or $14k per theater, in a crowded arthouse market. Strong exit polls and word of mouth – 94% in the top two boxes – could help built out this movie, which will likely be more audience-focused than awards-buzz driven.
“We are encouraged to see Spoiler Alert playing great and connecting with audiences,” said Focus distribution chief Lisa Bunnell. “We expect the film to broaden its audience and reach as we begin our national expansion.” The Michael Showalter pic based on Michael Ausiello’s memoir ‘Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies’ and staring Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge and Sally Field expands Dec. 9.
Notable openings this fall led by The Banshees of Inisherin ($46+k), Tár and The Fabelmans have been MIA for few weeks. It’s about the movies — iconic writer of stage and screen Martin McDonagh with Colin Farrell; Todd Field’s unique Cate Blanchett-starrer with an eclectic audience including strong LGBTQ support; and the appeal of Steven Spielberg and his autobiographical film. (Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale with Brendan Fraser next weekend could also see a strong opening bump next weekend, before Avatar: The Way Of Water swallows the box office.)
It’s also about the marketplace, which gets more crowded by the week. Specialty film is still challenged. Rising concern about Covid isn’t helpful in accelerating the return of older demos to theaters.
“Arthouse films are coming back. But people are judging them based on previous [pre-covid] grosses. This just needs patience,” said one distribution executive, noting that virus cases are rising and flu and other respiratory illnesses spreading. “People are like, ‘Should we start wearing
Three contestants on The Traitors have won the game and split the prize money after an intense finale.
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A Kid Like Jake, Hidden Figures), but romantic dramedy Spoiler Alert, out nationwide this Friday, is his finest big-screen performance to date. plays a TV journalist who meets the love of his life, only to be faced with one of the most complicated, emotional journeys anyone should ever have to endure.
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Spoiler Alert is about as funny and upbeat a film you could possibly make when the subject is the illness and death of one of the partners in the central relationship. It’s a gay Love Story with laughs, albeit with a twist, as the film challenges itself to be both amusing and emotionally involving where matters of life and death are concerned. Fortunately, it manages to more or less succeed on both counts due to its ever-ready wise-crack nature and sympathetic direction.