{"id":316256,"date":"2025-12-14T22:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/316256\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T22:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:23:08","slug":"dhurandhar-eternity-hamnet-silent-night-deadly-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/316256\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dhurandhar\u2019, \u2018Eternity\u2019, \u2018Hamnet\u2019, ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night\u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAwards hopefuls, an Indian film, an anime compilation and a slasher reboot populated the indie film box office as Eternity<\/a> and Hamnet<\/a> rounded out the domestic top 10 with Bollywood\u2019s Dhurandhar<\/a>. Demented Santa is back in Silent Night, Deadly Night, Neon\u2019s The Secret Agent<\/a> continued strong, The Met:\u00a0Live in HD\u00a0as always proved a reliable draw on a pre-Christmas weekend dominated by big studio and family titles.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong new openings, Mike P. Nelson\u2019s reboot of the 1984 Santa slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night\u00a0from Cineverse is eyeing $1.1 million on 1,640 theaters. <\/p>\n

\n\tBryan Fuller\u2019s Dust Bunny starring Mads Mikkelsen and Sophie Sloan, from Roadside Attractions, debuted to $339k on 402 screens.<\/p>\n

\n\tCinegalaxy opened Telugu Akhanda 2: Thaandavam in 300 theaters for a weekend debut of $366k, as per Comscore.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew limited releases saw Janus Films opened Resurrection by Bi Gan on three screens at $64.2k\u00a0for a per screen average of $21.4k, among PSAs for a new Chinese film in the U.S. since the pandemic. The director hosted sold out Q&As in in NYC (Film at Lincoln Center & IFC Center) and LA (Laemmle Royal).<\/p>\n

\n\tAtropia from Vertical, the Sundance U.S. Grand Jury Prize- winner for Dramatic Feature and directorial debut of directed of Hailey Benton Gates, opened to an estimated $9k at NYC\u2019s IFC Center. The distributor\u2019s Rosemead starring Lucy Liu banked $29k at LA\u2019s AMC Century City for a cume of $85k in week 2. It\u2019s among the theater\u2019s best grossers this weekend with several sold-out shows including a Friday Q&A introduced by Geena Davis.<\/p>\n

\n\tHolding over: Dhurandhar from Moviegoers Entertainment is no. 4 on 377 screens in week 2 with $3.45 million for the three days and a cume of $7.89 million, as per Comscore. The Hindi spy thriller by Aditya Dhar starring Ranveer Singh follows a network of criminals, informants and operatives\u00a0whose lives intersect.<\/p>\n

\n\tGKids anime Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution is no. 6 in week 2 on 1,35 screens with a $2.1 million weekend and a $14.5 million cume.<\/p>\n

\n\tA24\u2019s Eternity by David Freyne grossed $1.77 million on 2,067 screens in week 3 for a cume pushing $13 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tChlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s Hamnet from Focus Features had a nice hold, looking at $1.5 million at 749 locations for a cume of $7 million. Plans a wide wide break in January. The film continues to please with a 92% Rotten Tomatoes audience score (87% Fresh with critics).<\/p>\n

\n\tMusical Merrily We Roll Along from Sony Pictures Classics is looking at $248.4k on 330 screens in week 2 for a cume of $2.2 million. By Maria Friedman, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and\u00a0Lindsay Mendez.<\/p>\n

\n\tNeon\u2019s The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho starring Wagner Moura grossed $234k on just 43 screens in week 3 for a cume of $488k.<\/p>\n

\n\tEvent cinema: The Met:\u00a0Live in HD\u00a0Saturday transmission of Giordano\u2019s\u00a0Andrea Ch\u00e9nier\u00a0grosses $524k on about 800 creens.\u00a0Conducted by Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni and starring soprano Sonya Yoncheva and tenor Piotr Becza\u0142a. Encore screenings of\u00a0Andrea Ch\u00e9nier\u00a0will playin select U.S. cinemas Dec. 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Awards hopefuls, an Indian film, an anime compilation and a slasher reboot populated the indie film box office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[122297,96,125482,50284,2839,125483,125484,88549,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-316256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-dhurandhar","tag-entertainment","tag-eternity","tag-hamnet","tag-movies","tag-specialty-box-office","tag-the-met-live-in-hd","tag-the-secret-agent","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}