Arthouse Audit: Baumbach's 'while We're Young' Clicks With Smart Set

Noah Baumbach's most commercial entry to date "While We We're Young" (A24) opened even better than Radius/TWC's horror breakout "It Follows" (which expanded this weekend to 1,218 theaters and fifth place in the Top Ten) with an impressive $60,000 per screen average in four theaters. The other openings show a wide range of films with lesser grosses, with Sony Pictures Classics' Oscar-nominated bio-doc "The Salt of the Earth" the best of the rest of the core specialized fare. Films with estimated grosses were obtained from reliable outside sources and not from distributors. Opening "While We're Young" (A24) - Criticwire: B+ ; Metacritic: 77; Festivals include: Toronto, New York 2014 $242,152 in 4 theaters; PSA (per screen average): $60,538 Noah Baumbach's films are no strangers to the $30,000+ opening weekend PSAs.