For example, buoyed by a massive marketing budget and franchise awareness, last year’s “Avengers: Endgame” earned nearly 42 percent of its total $858.37 million domestic gross during its opening weekend in 4,662 theaters.Īfter premiering at the Telluride Film Festival in 2016, “Moonlight,” by comparison, earned $400,000 when it initially opened in four theaters in 2016 - a feat for a specialty film. Strategies for releasing independent films are vastly different than those for studio tentpoles.

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“Indie films are, I think, the films that are most vulnerable right now,” he said.

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