This weekend’s debut of Woody Allen‘s “Blue Jasmine" is one of the veteran writer-director’s best ever, and easily the year’s strongest specialty box office opening.
The comedy, starring Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin, took in $612,726 from just six theaters for distributor Sony Pictures Classics. That’s a spectacular $102,128 per-screen average, topping the $87,667 average that “Spring Breakers” managed on three screens in March.
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The “Blue Jasmine” debut tops that of “Midnight in Paris,” Allen’s 2011 hit that went on to take in $151 million globally.