Wes Anderson‘s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” posted one of the best limited openings ever this weekend.
The quirky ensemble comedy brought in a stunning $800,000 for Fox Searchlight, from only two theaters in New York and two in Los Angeles. That’s an eye-popping per-screen average of more than $200,000 per screen.
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That’s easily the best opening weekend ever for writer-director Anderson, whose last film “Moonrise Kingdom” became a sleeper hit in 2012 after opening in four theaters with $522,000. That one went on to take in $68 million worldwide.