Palme d'Or recipient Fjord, the Neon drama featuring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, drew $124,000 across four screens split between New York and Los Angeles on its opening weekend, while the documentary Naza continued building momentum into a second week of wider distribution.

With Fjord, director Mungiu claimed a second Palme d'Or while extending Neon's run of festival victories to seven consecutive wins. At Cannes, the film received the FIPRESCI Award and has since been put forward as Romania's submission in the Best International Feature category at the Oscars.

The film centers on a Romanian-Norwegian couple, the Gheorghius, who make their home in a remote fjord village, where ties with a neighbouring family, the Halbergs, gradually develop. A connection forms between the children. Visible bruising on teenage Elia Gheorghiu prompted neighbours and others in the area to raise questions about how the Gheorghiu children were being raised and educated at home.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film earned a Certified Fresh rating, with reviewers collectively awarding it a 90 percent approval score.

The documentary Naza — directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the pair behind the Academy Award-winning No Other Land — crossed the $500,000 threshold in its second week of wider release through an expanded run. Tracking a four-day tally that included the Columbus Day holiday, the documentary carried its opening-week haul of $125,000 across eight days at IFC Center in New York into a wider rollout spanning 85 placements across more than 30 markets, where the three-day frame generated an estimated $298,000 and the extended four-day count reached approximately $378,200, lifting the overall running total to $504,074.

Produced independently with financial backing from The Guardian and MK2, the documentary features its two directors conducting interviews with Israeli soldiers and intelligence personnel — each participant speaking anonymously — about the number of Palestinian civilians killed in Gaza. The phased deployment is set to extend through the end of October. Rotten Tomatoes reviewers awarded the film a perfect score, with every critical assessment logged on the platform recorded as positive.

Debuting on just six screens split between New York and Los Angeles, A24's Misty Green — directed by Chris Rock — pulled in $85,700 across its opening three-day frame, with the four-day tally reaching $98,700. Rosalind Eleazar's portrayal of an actress navigating a comeback in Hollywood drew notice at the film's TIFF debut, where she appeared alongside Daniel Kaluuya, Adam Driver, Anna Kendrick, and Rock.

Across four venues, Bleecker Street's release of Alex Gibney's documentary on Musk is tracking toward a three-day opening haul near $70,000, which would put the per-theater figure at roughly $17,200. At nearly four hours in length, the documentary, which premiered at Venice, faces scheduling constraints at cinemas.

Produced by Magenta Light Studios and directed by James McAvoy, California Schemin' drew an estimated $18,700 across five venues split between New York and Los Angeles in its opening weekend. The film brings together McAvoy, Seamus McLean Ross, Samuel Bottomley, Lucy Halliday, and Rebekah Murrell in a narrative centred on two young men from Dundee who presented themselves as an established rap act from California to deceive the music industry.

A limited engagement at Film Forum in New York opened My Undesirable Friends Part II – Exile, the latest documentary work from Julia Loktev, over the course of the past weekend. Projected box-office receipts for the sequel — whose predecessor earned an Oscar shortlist nomination for Best Documentary Feature and took home both the NYFCC and LAFCC prizes for Best Non-Fiction film — sit at roughly $7,500, a figure shaped by the production's six-hour runtime and venue capacity of 100 seats. Backed by Cinetic and mTuckman Media on an independent release path, the film — having already played Venice and Telluride — arrives in Los Angeles on Oct. 16 and then moves into additional markets through the rest of the fall.

Projected earnings of $29,600 across 42 screens would push the five-week total for If I Go Will They Miss Me to a cumulative $980,700. Danielle Brooks and J Alphonse Nicholson take the lead roles in Rich Spirit, a film that Walter Thompson-Hernandez directs. Holding a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film remains on an exclusive theatrical run for the weeks ahead.

A 20th-anniversary theatrical run of Pan's Labyrinth, presented by Fathom Entertainment and carrying Guillermo del Toro's name, drew an estimated $1.66 million across 1,168 locations, placing it eleventh on the domestic box office chart. Set in the aftermath of Spain's civil war, the story follows a young girl who stumbles upon a hidden labyrinth and the fantastical realm it conceals, while contending with an authoritarian stepfather at home. Four performers — Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, and Doug Jones — made up the principal cast of the production, which was originally released in 2006.

Distributed across 312 venues, the concert film Queen Budapest — released through Trafalgar Releasing — landed at no. 16 on the chart, drawing an estimated $681,000 in ticket revenue. Footage from Queen's 1986 run through Budapest's stadiums on the Magic Tour forms the backbone of the concert film. A restored print of the film, placed under the direction of János Zsombolyai, brings together the four members of the band — Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon.