As part of a new recurring feature, IndieWire will each week exclusively share a box office chart via Rentrak looking at the top 10 releases in specialized release, presented in full with added commentary.
After seven weeks in release, the Italian road trip comedy “The Last One for the Road” is available on digital this week. We bring that up because the film from director Francesco Sossai and distributor Music Box Films made a push back into our specialized top 10, going up 154 percent from the weekend prior.
The film follows two middle-aged friends who swear each drink is their last, only to go on a bender across the Italian countryside with a shy architecture student. To date domestically it has made $49,523, adding another $5.5K this weekend, per Rentrak. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to what it had done in Italy last fall, where it has reached $2.8 million worldwide. The film first premiered at Cannes before playing the festival circuit at TIFF and NYFF, and it now came in at #6 on our specialized chart.
Magnolia’s “Carolina Caroline” topped the list again this week, though it dropped its screen count significantly and fell 76 percent in weekend two. Films like “Jack Johnson: Surfilmusic,” “Time and Water,” and the documentary “Everyone Is Lying to You For Money,” the latter now in its ninth week, are all holding well as they add theaters. And for new openings, sneaking into the top 10 was “Promised Sky,” an acclaimed Tunisian film that first played in Un Certain Regard in 2025 at Cannes. Film Forum in NY hosted the U.S. theatrical premiere and it made $2,848 this weekend from the single screen.
IndieWire’s 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.
Top 10 Specialized Releases 6/12-6/14 (all figures are domestic results courtesy of Rentrak) (new openings are italicized)
“Carolina Caroline” – $26,205
Distributor: Magnolia
Avg/Location: $437
Cumulative: $236,763
“Jack Johnson: Surfilmusic” – $15,083
Distributor: Mercury Studios
Avg/Location: $754
Cumulative: $32,076
“Time and Water” – $11,074
Distributor: 1-2 Special
Avg/Location: $481
Cumulative: $35,970
“Everyone Is Lying To You For Money” – $9,566
Distributor: The Forge
Avg/Location: $4,783
Cumulative: $140,492
“She’s the He” – $7,623
Distributor: Obscured Releasing
Avg/Location: $3,812
Cumulative: $22,706
“The Last One for the Road” – $5,580
Distributor: Music Box Films
Avg/Location: $1,395
Cumulative: $49,523
“Chum” – $5,405
Distributor: IFC Films
Avg/Location: $5,405
Cumulative: $10,523
“Silent Friend” – $4,954
Distributor: 1-2 Special
Avg/Location: $275
Cumulative: $352,740
“The Currents” – $4,567
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Avg/Location: $571
Cumulative: $30,676
“Promised Sky” – $2,848
Distributor: Film Movement
Avg/Location – $2,848
Cumulative – $22,985