‘Personal Shopper,’ ‘Raw’ Highlight Busy Indie Box Office Weekend
The French horror film “Raw” made $25,320 from two screens after receiving rave reviews at the Toronto Film Festival last year.
The directorial debut of Julia Ducournau tells the story of a quiet, vegetarian student who transforms into a bloodthirsty cannibal after she’s forced to eat animal organs as part of a brutal hazing ritual at her veterinarian school.
CBS Films’ “The Sense of an Ending,” which stars Jim Broadbent as an unreliable narrator telling the story of a past romance and a friend’s suicide, made $42,000 from four theaters.
The film tells the story of a woman who travels with an American doctor to the dying Ottoman Empire at the peak of World War I to take part in a medical mission.