‘The Worst Person In The World’ Bests Arthouse In Upbeat Weekend For Indie Film – Specialty Box Office
06.02.2022 - 23:15
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Neon’s racked up a few bests this weekend with a cume of $135,042 at four NY/LA theaters for a popping per screen average of $33,768.
The poignant comedy from Norway by Joachim Trier that premiered at Cannes (star Renate Reinsve took Best Actress) has great word of mouth. It’s shortlisted for Best International Film as Oscar nods loom and scored two BAFTA nominations, Best Foreign Language Film and Actress for Reinsve.
Experiencing the film “in a cinema with an audience was one of the best times I’ve had all year. Seeing packed theaters in NY and LA felt so good, and was a true signifier for the return of the platform release and our specialty box office. I couldn’t be more pleased to see the heartfelt embrace for this film and independent cinema overall,” Neon distribution chief Elissa Federoff said Sunday.
Others were also heartened by the weekend numbers, hoping at some point soon to call a turning point in a market that’s been crippled by a slow re-entry of older arthouse demos. “Signs of good things to come,” said another distribution exec. The waning of the Omicron variant is key, but there’s a lag. “It’s definitely helping but we have to wait a few weeks,” said another.
As per Neon, The Worst Person had the highest PSA for any film of 2022, and the third-highest for any film of 2021 after Licorice Pizza and Spider-Man: No Way Home. (On four screens, hard to compare to Spidey but still a juggernaut on its own turf).
The distrib also said Worst had the highest PSA of any foreign language film of the past two years after Parasite and Portrait of a Lady on Fire and is in the top 20 PSAs of all time for a foreign language film. It’s the largest opening for any Norwegian film. The audience skewed 60% female, 40% male with
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