{"id":29785,"date":"2025-09-21T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/29785\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:49:08","slug":"nice-expansion-for-mubis-the-history-of-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/29785\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Expansion For Mubi’s ‘The History Of Sound’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe pace of indie releases is slowing as it does this time of year before awards crush. So it\u2019s nice to have Mubi\u2019s The History of Sound<\/a>. The Cannes-premiering\u00a0film by Oliver Hermanus (Living) starring Paul Mescal and Josh O\u2019Connor is at an estimated $320k from 552 theaters in a big week two expansion, for a cume of $439k. It had a strong $86k debut last week at four\u00a0theaters in New York and LA. Certified at 83% with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1917, Lionel (Mescal), a young, talented music student, meets David (O\u2019Connor) at\u00a0the\u00a0Boston Conservatory, where a connection over a deep love\u00a0of\u00a0music leads to a fleeting love affair.\u00a0They reconnect years later, leading to an impromptu journey through\u00a0the\u00a0backwoods\u00a0of\u00a0Maine to collect traditional folk songs. The unexpected reunion and\u00a0the\u00a0music\u00a0they preserve will shape the course of Lionel\u2019s life for decades to come.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong wider releases, Angel Studios\u2019 Michale Chiklis-starring The Senior<\/a> opened at no. 7 with a $2.77 million weekend on 2,405 screens. A Certified 95% with RT audiences.<\/p>\n

\n\tFathom Entertainment\u2019s Sight & Sound Presents: NOAH! \u2013 Live had a $1.39 million opening weekend on 933 screens for a $1.6 million cume, according to Comscore. The special 30th anniversary celebration of Sight & Sound\u2019s live production of one of the world\u2019s best-known voyages is no. 9 at the domestic box office.<\/p>\n

\n\tLimited openings: Predators<\/a>, the Sundance-premiering exploration of reality TV series To Catch A Predator and its modern imitators, opened to $7.25k at the Film Forum in NYC. The MTV Documentary Films release by David Osit, at 98% with RT critics off 44 reviews, reported multiple sellouts for evening shows. Robust expansion and awards campaign to come with engagements\u00a0in LA \u00a0and San Francisco next weekend, expanding to the top 25 markets in early October.<\/p>\n

\n\tOscilloscope Laboratories opened Bernhard Wenger\u2019s debut feature Peacock<\/a>, also to some sold out screenings, with $5.2k at New York\u2019s Metrograph theater. The satire, Austria\u2019s Oscar selection, premiered at Venice Critics\u2019 Week in 2024.\u00a0Albrecht Schuch (All Quiet On The Western Front) stars as Mattias, whose job at a rent-a-friend agency impinges on his ability to forge authentic relationships.<\/p>\n

\n\tHoldovers: Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale<\/a> from Focus Feature saw a second weekend gross of $6.3 million on 3,711 screens for a cume of $31.6 million. It\u2019s tied for fourth place with Lionsgate\u2019s The Long Walk, also in week 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpinal Tap II \u2013 The End Continues from Bleecker Street \u2014 the hilarious follow to Rob Reiner\u2019s cult 1984 original This Is Spinal Tap \u2014 is looking at a $373k weekend on 1,326 screens for a cume of $2.5 million in week 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pace of indie releases is slowing as it does this time of year before awards crush. So…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9289,146,85,46,3167,25585,25586,25587,9319,25588,20900],"class_list":["post-29785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-downton-abbey-the-grand-finale","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-peacock","tag-predators","tag-sight-sound-presents-noah-u2013-live","tag-specialty-box-office","tag-spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues","tag-the-history-of-sound","tag-the-senior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}