OTHER OPENINGS
This weekend also saw the platform release of IFC Films' R rated drama The Business Of Strangers to an encouraging ESTIMATED $0.077 million at 8 theaters ($9,654 per theater).
Written and directed by Patrick Stettner, it stars Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles.
Miramax's PG rated Iranian drama Baran opened an Oscar qualifying run with an okay ESTIMATED $0.019 million at 2 theaters ($9,500 per theater).
Written and directed by Majid Majidi, the film about "an Afghan woman who defied the odds" won the best picture award at the Montreal Film Festival and the National Board of Review's Freedom of Expression Award.
United Artists' R rated Bosnian war drama No Man's Land, an MGM release, opened to a promising ESTIMATED $0.023 million at 2 theaters in New York ($11,500 per theater).
Written and directed by Danis Tanovic, it won the best screenplay award in Cannes last May and was a hit at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals. Land is Bosnia's first official Oscar entry.
Land opens Friday (Dec. 14) in Los Angeles, moves into the remaining eight top domestic markets Dec. 21 and will go broader after that.
SNEAK PREVIEWS
There were no national sneak previews this weekend.
EXPANSIONS
On the expansion front this weekend saw New Line Cinema go wider in its seventh week with its R rated drama Life As A House with an unexciting ESTIMATED $0.63 million (-43%) at 1,068 theaters (+118 theaters; $585 per theater). Its cume is approximately $14.8 million.
Directed by Irwin Winkler, it stars Kevin Kline and Kristin Scott Thomas.