Focus Features’ historical drama about an interracial couple that found themselves at the center of a Supreme Court case, “Loving,” is No. 1 at the indie box office this weekend.
Playing in both New York and Los Angeles, the film made an estimated $169,000 from four theaters for a per screen average of $42,250. (To put that in perspective, its average beat Disney-Marvel’s “Doctor Strange,” the No. 1 grossing movie of the weekend, by a landslide. The Benedict Cumberbatch movie earned $21,893 per screen, albeit from 3,822 North American screens.)
Directed by Jeff Nichols (“Mud,” “Midnight Special”), the film stars Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Nick Kroll, Michael Shannon and Marton Csokas.