Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe headline The Weight, and Day 1 numbers came in soft: $1.1M domestic on its opening Friday, a $731 per-theater average across 1,504 screens.
Day 1 Snapshot
Day 1 Add$1.1M
US Domestic$1.1M
Worldwide Gross$1.1M
A crime drama built around two veteran leads rather than a franchise or IP hook typically opens on exactly this scale — a per-theater average in the low hundreds signals a platform-style release finding a niche audience, not a swing-and-miss wide bet.
Read the room: this is the opening a specialty drama expects, not the one a starry pairing sometimes promises — the real test is whether reviews and word of mouth widen the audience from here.
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