The Times Herald (Norristown, PA)

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

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Photos and text from wire services starring Jodie Foster. The Global Road release, also starring Sterling K. Brown, Dave Bautista and Charlie Day, flopped with $3.2 million in 2,407 theaters. Set in a near-future Los Angeles, “Hotel Artemis” is about a members-only hospital for criminals.

Coming between more massive blockbuste­rs like the recent “Solo” and the upcoming “Incredible­s 2” and “Jurassic World,” the weekend was down about 20 percent from last year, according to comScore, when “Wonder Woman” was setting box-office records. But some of the story was still the same.

“There’s a lot of women-powered revenue at the box office in the heat of the summer season,” said Paul Dergarabed­ian, senior media analyst for comScore. “Films featuring female leads are killing it at the box office, but that’s been going on for quite a while.”

One of the early summer’s more breakout hits has been the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentar­y “RBG,” which has made $9.1 million in six weeks of release through Sunday.

Opening this weekend was another documentar­y that may prove a similar sensation: the Fred Rogers documentar­y “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.” The Focus Features release grossed $470,000 in 29 theaters for a per-theater average of about $16,000. The film, 99 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, has been acclaimed for its portrait of the man behind “Mister Rogers’ Neighborho­od.” Focus said two thirds of the documentar­y’s audience was under the age of 45.

 ?? A24 VIA AP ?? This image released by A24 shows Toni Collette in a scene from “Hereditary.”
A24 VIA AP This image released by A24 shows Toni Collette in a scene from “Hereditary.”

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