{"id":480950,"date":"2026-06-03T12:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480950\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:58:15","slug":"time-and-water-cracks-specialized-top-10-with-single-screen-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480950\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Time and Water’ Cracks Specialized Top 10 with Single Screen Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of a new recurring feature, IndieWire will each week exclusively share a box office<\/a> chart via Comscore (soon to be Rentrak) looking at the top 10 releases in specialized release, presented here in full with some added commentary. <\/p>\n

After Neon released director Sara Dosa\u2019s \u201cFire of Love\u201d<\/a> to become a modest documentary box office hit, rising indie distributor 1-2 Special is taking out her follow-up, \u201cTime and Water<\/a>,\u201d and is hoping to find that same level of specialized box office success, if not better. <\/p>\n

And from just a single screen in its opening weekend, \u201cTime and Water\u201d is off to a good start<\/a>. The film<\/a> made $8,048 from just one New York theater before it expands slightly to Los Angeles and San Francisco on June 5. That single-screen gross was good enough to lead all specialized films on IndieWire\u2019s exclusive chart, via data from Comscore, in terms of per-screen-average. It also cracked into the Top 10 of our new weekend chart at #8, which tracks specialized releases and other platform openings. <\/p>\n

\"'Carolina<\/a> \"Atmosphere\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

The \u201cTime and Water\u201d opening is actually a higher PSA than \u201cFire of Love\u201d from 2022, which opened on just three screens and made $22,416 with a PSA of $7,472. That film topped out at $1.12 million domestic and $1.69 million worldwide, so \u201cTime and Water\u201d should be eyeing a similar outcome. And keep in mind, Dosa\u2019s film is a ruminative and poetic love letter to a glacier, so literally and figuratively super slow moving is the perfect rollout for a film like this. <\/p>\n

Leading the week was Black Bear\u2019s \u201cTuner,\u201d<\/a> which after opening on just four screens in its first weekend now expanded to 452, which is within this chart\u2019s threshold. The film made $1.72 million for a domestic cumulative haul of $1.87 thus far, good enough for a $3,819 PSA. 1-2 Special also had another film at #2, \u201cSilent Friend<\/a>,\u201d now in its fourth week in theaters. After another $30,957 this weekend, Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi\u2019s ode to a tree starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Le\u00e1 Seydoux has made $307,142. Some of the other openings this week on the specialized end included Kino Lorber\u2019s \u201cThe Currents\u201d and Film Movement\u2019s \u201cRenoir.\u201d <\/p>\n

Check out Comscore\u2019s full Top 10 Specialized Chart for the weekend of May 29 to May 31 below. <\/p>\n

IndieWire\u2019s criteria for inclusion on the Specialized Chart looks at independent and mini-major distributors with films that at their widest release at any point are below 500 screens, excluding event cinema, re-releases, and major Bollywood or Chinese North American releases. <\/p>\n

Top 10 Specialized Releases 5\/29-5\/31 (all figures are domestic results courtesy of Comscore)<\/p>\n

\u201cTuner\u201d \u2013 $1.726M<\/p>\n

Distributor: Black Bear<\/p>\n

Week: 2<\/p>\n

Screen Count: 452<\/p>\n

Avg\/Location: $3,819<\/p>\n

Cumulative: $1.875M<\/p>\n

\u201cSilent Friend\u201d \u2013 $30,957<\/p>\n

Distributor: 1-2 Special<\/p>\n

Week: 4<\/p>\n

Screen Count: 57<\/p>\n

Avg\/Location: $543<\/p>\n

Cumulative: $307,142<\/p>\n

\u201cSteal this Story, Please!\u201d \u2013 $25,554<\/p>\n

Distributor: Xceptional Communications<\/p>\n

Week: 8<\/p>\n

Locations: 20<\/p>\n

Weekend Gross: $25,554<\/p>\n

Avg\/Location: $1,278<\/p>\n

Cumulative: $508,251<\/p>\n

\u201cPitfall\u201d \u2013 $19,629<\/p>\n

Distributor: Cineverse<\/p>\n

Week: 1<\/p>\n

Locations: 53<\/p>\n

Avg\/Location: $19,629<\/p>\n

Cumulative: $19,629<\/p>\n

\u201cZombeid\u201d \u2013 $16,596<\/p>\n

Distributor: Geo Films<\/p>\n

Week: 1<\/p>\n

Locations: 45<\/p>\n

Avg\/Location: $16,596<\/p>\n

Domestic Cumulative: $16,596<\/p>\n

\u201cBlue Heron\u201d \u2013 $13,468<\/p>\n

Distributor: Janus Films<\/p>\n

Week: 7<\/p>\n

Locations: 30<\/p>\n

Avg\/Location: $449<\/p>\n

Cumulative: $542,720<\/p>\n

\u201cForge\u201d \u2013 $11,477<\/p>\n

Distributor: Utopia<\/p>\n

Week: 3<\/p>\n

Locations: 16<\/p>\n

Avg\/Location: $717<\/p>\n

Cumulative: $56,964<\/p>\n

\u201cTime and Water\u201d \u2013 $8,048<\/p>\n

Distributor: 1-2 Special<\/p>\n

Week: 1<\/p>\n

Locations: 1<\/p>\n

Avg\/Location: $8,048<\/p>\n

Domestic Cumulative: $8,048<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Currents\u201d \u2013 $8,020<\/p>\n

Distributor: Kino Lorber<\/p>\n

Week: 1<\/p>\n

Locations: 1<\/p>\n

Avg\/Location: $8,020<\/p>\n

Cumulative: $10,163<\/p>\n

\u201cRenoir\u201d \u2013 $6,252<\/p>\n

Distributor: Film Movement<\/p>\n

Week: 1<\/p>\n

Locations: 1<\/p>\n

Avg\/Location: $6,252<\/p>\n

Cumulative: $19,680<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of a new recurring feature, IndieWire will each week exclusively share a box office chart via…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2478,93,1043,61,60,270,130790],"class_list":["post-480950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-box-office","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-time-and-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}