The sunshine then sealed the fate for the picture, which stars Riz Ahmed and Billie Piper. A big problem it faced: indie cinemas, its natural home, had plenty of other titles to choose from, and audiences were always unlikely to find it in multiplexes. Contemporary London crime drama City of Tiny Lights was the emphatic loser of this week’s crop of indie flicks, with £15,700 from 57 cinemas for the weekend period.

Raw: watch a clip from the feminist cannibal horror film GuardianĪlso fighting for a piece of the action was the Chilean biopic Neruda, from Jackie director Pablo Larraín – the film debuted with £28,400 from 26 cinemas. I Am Not Your Negro, on the fewest screens among the trio, achieved the highest site average for the weekend. Ignoring previews from consideration, only a few thousand pounds separated the weekend totals of Raul Peck’s historical documentary I Am Not Your Negro (£54,600), Terence Davies’ Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion (£52,100) and Julia Ducournau’s sexy French horror Raw (£48,800). Three very different films battled to be crowned king of the arthouses at the weekend, with honours pretty even. The indie battle: A Quiet Passion v Raw v I Am Not Your Negro The Anna Kendrick wedding comedy Table 19 opened ignominiously in 12th place, with £131,000 from 221 cinemas, and a puny site average of £591. Among new releases, audiences were thin for old-geezer comedy Going in Style, starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin – opening tally was a not-so-stylish £569,000 from 454 cinemas. While families seem by and large to have stuck with planned cinema outings at the weekend, adults stayed away in droves, with big drops for titles such as Ghost in the Shell, Jake Gyllenhaal sci-fi Life and Ben Wheatley’s trigger-happy Free Fire.

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