Awards contenders Call Me by Your Name and Gary Oldmans Darkest Hour have both scored impressive platform openings over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Coming of age drama Call Me by Your Name, which led the way on Nov. 21 with six Spirit Award nominations, saw stellar returns from a Sony Classics release with $404,874 at four venues in Los Angeles and New York since its Friday launch for an impressive per-screen average of $101,219. Thats the best three-day limited opening of 2017, topping the Lady Bird launch with $364,437 on four screens, and the highest since La La Land opened with $881,104 at five venues last December.
Call Me by Your Name received Spirit nominations for best feature, Timothee Chalamet as best male lead, Armie Hammer as best male supporting, and Luca Guadagnino in the directing category, along with editing and cinematography nods. Chalamet plays a 17-year-old with Hammer as a postgraduate student who comes to stay with his family for the summer in Italy.
Then again, it's not really surprising. The film has garnered so much critical acclaim. And it's based on one of the most revered contemporary books.