Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined – Live in Mexico City and EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert are sitting at nos. 4 and 5 in North America making for a great music weekend at the specialty box office.
The Twenty One Pilots concert film from Trafalgar Releasing is rocking to a $3.7 million opening on 836 screens. It minted $2 million of that from 270 Imax locations (following an exclusive Imax premiere Wednesday). The concert film captures Twenty One Pilots at a career-defining moment, their monumental Mexico City headline show, performing in front of 65,000 fans at Estadio GNP Seguros during The Clancy World Tour.
A mix of cinematic performance footage with behind-the-scenes access to the duo, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, as they prepare for one of the biggest shows of their career, the film follows the band from arrival in Mexico City to the stage with the preparation and anticipation that build as showtime approaches. Exclusive commentary from Tyler and Dun offer personal reflections on the journey that brought them there and their connection to their fans.
Twenty One Pilots was formed in 2009 in Columbus, Ohio by frontman Joseph and original members Nick Thomas and Chris Salih. They departed in 2011, when Dun joined. See trailer here.
Baz Luhrmann documentary EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert from Neon is banking $3.5 million at 1,940 screens in a major week 2 expansion for a cume of $7.8 million. The doc-concert film weaves previously unreleased footage from the legendary Las Vegas residency in the 1970s, or Elvis on tour, material from from the Graceland archive and Presley recordings rediscovered during Luhrmann’s research for his 2022 film Elvis. EPiC opened exclusively on 325 Imax screens last weekend.
Moderate releases: Ken Yamamoto’s Uma Musume: Pretty Derby – Beginning of a New Era from. Gaga Corporation opened to an estimated $900k on 600 screens. Produced by Cygames and Cygames Pictures, this is the first feature-length anime film based on the popular multimedia franchise about anthropomorphized racehorses known as Umamusume. The film is GAGA’s first anime distribution in North America.
A24’s Pillion starring Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling continues its strong run, booking an estimated $700k in an expansion to 357 screens for a $2.5 million cume.
Roadside Attractions’ release of the 2026 Oscar Nominated Shorts is at $643k on 321 screens in week 2 for a cume pushing $2.1 million.
Well Go USA Entertainment’s Blades Of The Guardians is eyeing a $230k gross on 83 screens in week 2 for a cume of $1.2 million.
Focus Features’ Midwinter Break by Polly Findlay starring Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds is at an estimated $200k at 808 theaters, also in its second frame, for a $913k cume.
Greenwich Entertainment opened Michel Franco’s latest collaboration with Jessica Chastain, Dreams at 188 theaters to $95k. The film was the top performer at NYC’s Angelika Film Center
Limited opening: Comedy For Worse from Brainstorm Media opened to $10.9k on 2 screens. Sold out Q&As shows with Amy Landecker and Bradley Whitford at the Quad in New York and Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles. Will be at. The Music Box in Chicago next week.
Re-release: Janus Films re-release of Satyajit Ray’s Days And Nights In The Forest grossed $16.8k on a single screen at Film Forum in NYC. The new 4K restoration, which premiered in Cannes Classics, will open in LA, San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle next week before expanding nationwide in the weeks ahead. Restored in 4K in 2025 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Film Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Janus Films – The Criterion Collection at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from the original camera and sound negatives provided by Purnima Dutta and the magnetic track preserved by BFI National Archive.
