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Indie Box-Office Roundup: Weekend of March 21-23, 2008

Posted by Paul Clark

Someone call up Shabba-Doo and Boogaloo Shrimp, because breakdancing is BACK! In a weekend full of new specialty fare, Benson Lee's documentary Planet B-Boy (Elephant Eye Films) snuck into the top spot on this week's chart, with an average of $13,889 on two screens. The film's distributor plans to take the film wider over the next month, beginning with San Francisco, San Diego and Washington D.C. next week.

All of this week's top spots were occupied by new openers, with Olivier Assayas' new thriller Boarding Gate (Magnolia) coming in second despite middling reviews. Also finishing strongly was #3 film Under the Same Moon (Weinstein Co.), which not only broke U.S. record to become the top-grossing opening weekend for a Spanish-language release, but broke into the top 10 grossers overall. Rounding out the top 5 were Christophe Honoré's Love Songs (IFC) and Race (UTV Communications).

Holding steady in this week's top 10 are the Oscar-winning The Counterfeiters and Ira Sachs' Married Life (both Sony Pictures Classics). Not so lucky was last week's champ, David Gordon Green's Snow Angels, which fell to #13.

Top 10, Weekend of March 21-23:
1. Planet B-Boy [Elephant Eye Films] ($13,889 per screen)
2. Boarding Gate [Magnolia Pictures] ($11,440)
3. Under The Same Moon [The Weinstein Company] ($10,414)
4. Love Songs [IFC Films] ($10,244)
5. Race [UTV Communications] ($8,357)
6. The Grand [Anchor Bay] ($8,227)
7. Praying With Lior [First Run] ($6,443)
8. The Counterfeiters [Sony Pictures Classics] ($5,398)
9. The Hammer [International Film Circuit] ($4,857)
10. Married Life [Sony Pictures Classics] ($4,459)

Source: IndieWire.


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