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Wildwood opens third nationally on 2,942 screens, A CinemaScore

Travis Knight's film opened third nationally and earned an A CinemaScore, and its Portland indie run sold out three showings at a seventy-five-seat theater; the clay man still won.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWildwood just took third place nationally on opening Friday, across two thousand nine hundred forty-two theaters, behind Clayface and You Can See Everything.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSixteen years of work, and it's a bronze.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLook at the turning point. The seventy-five-seat McMenamins St. Johns theater in Portland sold out noon, three-thirty and seven. That's a home crowd, Hank.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe manager there says it's the biggest movie of the year, and he's worked there eight years.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe also says selling out weeks ahead isn't typical.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd The Hollywood Reporter has it at about eleven point six million, nearly double Missing Link's five point nine. That's a big jump.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorReportedly it cost a hundred million dollars, though. So the A grade from audiences is nice.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFinal score, a nine. Podium.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSixteen years, a few seconds at a time, and the gold went to Clayface.

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The story so far

  1. Wired for weird: How Laika's Wildwood put Portland on screen · The Curb
  2. 'Wildwood' embraces handmade artistry in the age of AI · NBC News
  3. 'Wildwood' review: a magical stop-motion adventure · The New York Times
  4. Laika has spent 20 years building up to Wildwood · The Verge
  5. Wildwood opens third nationally on 2,942 screens, A CinemaScore (this story)

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