Natalie Portman Drama ‘Love and Darkness’ Starts Strong, ‘Hell or High Water’ Scores Big

CBS Films’ and Lionsgate’s “Hell or High Water” continued strong momentum as it expanded into 472 theaters this weekend, earning an estimated $2.7 million with a per-screen average of $5,614.

[...] when it comes to strong averages, Natalie Portman drama “A Tale of Love and Darkness” took the weekend at the specialty box office with the strongest figure — $18,000 per screen as the Focus film opened in two theaters.

[...] Read: 'Hell or High Water' Reaches High-Water Mark in Limited Debut

Just behind “Love and Darkness” was A24’s fish-out-of-water coming-of-age tale “Morris From America,” featuring Craig Robinson as a soccer coach dad and his son, played by newcomer Markees Christmas, who dreams of making it as a rapper in the electro dance-dominated country of Germany.

From Stage 6 Films with Vertical Entertainment and Square Enix, video game-based animated feature starring “Game of Thrones” stars Lena Headey and Sean Bean, Kingsglaive:

Centered on a divorced father and his ex-con brother, the movie covers their desperate scheme to save the family farm.

The indie’s solid second weekend represents a wave of strong word-of-mouth off its very high 98 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, earning the film a domestic cumulative gross of $3.5 million so far.