‘Belfast,’ Oscar Contender & TIFF Audience Winner, Sees Solid Ticket Sales In “Week By Week, Inch By Inch” Arthouse Recovery – Specialty Box Office
Belfast, Kenneth Branaugh’s intensely personal story of one boy’s childhood in tumultuous late 1960s Northern Ireland, earned an estimated $1.8M in 580 locations this weekend for a PTA of $3,111 – a solid showing for a black-and-white film in a specialty market that’s waging what one distribution exec calls an “an inch-by-inch, week-by-week recovery.”