Produced and directed by Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein and produced by Graydon Carter, Kid is based on the book by Robert Evans.
"It's a good print average based on what's going on this summer," Focus Features distribution head Jack Foley said Sunday morning. "We had good reception critically right across the board and the way it played in (markets like) New York, Washington, Chicago, Boston is satisfactory. We're really happy with what we got. Now it's a question of how it continues to hold.
"We're opening 10 more markets this Friday. It's doing very nicely out there in the marketplace. It's competing well with everything."
Paramount Classics' R rated crime comedy Who Is Cletis Tout added theaters in its third week, going nowhere with a weak ESTIMATED $24,000 at 36 theaters (+3 theaters; $665 per theater). Its cume is approximately $0.18 million.
Written and directed by Chris Ver Wiel, it stars Christian Slater, Richard Dreyfuss, Portia de Rossi, RuPaul and Tim Allen.
WEEKEND COMPARISONS
Key films -- those grossing more than $500,000 -- took in approximately $137.85 million, down 9.62 percent from last year when they totaled $152.51 million.
Key films were down about 9.37 percent from the previous weekend of this year when they grossed $152.09 million.
Last year, Universal's opening week of American Pie 2 was first with $45.12 million at 3,063 theaters ($14,730 per theater); and New Line's second week of Rush Hour 2 was second with $33.12 million at 3,118 theaters ($10,621 per theater). The top two films one year ago grossed $78.2 million. This year, the top two films grossed an ESTIMATED $76.0 million.