Bugonia: Top 5 Per Screen Landing Success
- Yorgos Lanthimos's latest film, Bugonia, starring Emma Stone, has ignited the specialty box office with a strong opening weekend.
- What: bugonia opened to $690,000 on 17 screens, averaging $40,600 per theatre.
- Bugonia, the alien thriller starring emma Stone, Jesse plemons, Alicia silverstone, Stavros Halkias and Aidan delbis, landed a remarkable $690,000 on just 17 screens across eight markets. This...
‘Bugonia‘ Buzzes with $690K Opening weekend: Specialty box Office Recap
Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film, Bugonia, starring Emma Stone, has ignited the specialty box office with a strong opening weekend. Alongside Bugonia, other awards season contenders like It Was Just An Accident and The Mastermind demonstrated solid expansion, signaling a healthy landscape for self-reliant and arthouse cinema. This article breaks down the key performances, analyzes the trends, and provides context for what’s next in the specialty box office.
‘Bugonia’ Leads the Pack with Stellar Per-Theater Average
Bugonia, the alien thriller starring emma Stone, Jesse plemons, Alicia silverstone, Stavros Halkias and Aidan delbis, landed a remarkable $690,000 on just 17 screens across eight markets. This translates to a per-theater average (PTA) of $40,600,a meaningful achievement in today’s market. Focus Features is distributing the film, written by Will Tracy, which centers on two conspiracy theorists who kidnap a CEO (Stone) believing she’s an alien intent on destroying Earth.
This opening places Bugonia at number five for highest PTA of the year, trailing behind The Phoenician Scheme ($95,000, also from Focus), The Encampments, Friendship, and Love, brooklyn. This is a promising start, especially when compared to Lanthimos’s previous successes. Poor Things opened in nine theaters with a PTA of approximately $72,000 in 2023, while Kinds of Kindness achieved $75,000 per screen at five locations last year. The strong opening suggests a receptive audience for Lanthimos’s unique and frequently enough unsettling style.
Specialty Box Office Breakdown: Key Performances
here’s a more detailed look at the key performers this weekend:
| Film Title | Distributor | Screens | Weekend Gross | Per-Theater Average | Domestic Cume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bugonia | Focus Features | 17 | $690,000 | $40,600 | $690,000 |
| Thamma | Yash Raj Films | 405 | $568,000 | $1,402 | $905,000 |
| Last Days | Vertical | 312 | $161,000 | $516 | $161,000 |
| It Was Just An Accident | [Data not provided in source] | [Information not provided in source] | [Information not provided in source] | [Information not provided in source] | [Information not provided in source] |
| The Mastermind | [Information not provided in source] | [Information not provided in source] | [Information not provided in source] | [Information not provided in source] |