Who won the battle for the Indie Weekend Box Office crown?
Find out after the jump. Box Office. Another love story topped the charts last weekend, as the newly-opened Adam drew $17,094 per-screen at four locations. In his Indie Spotlight, Eric D. Snider quoted his own review, in which he called it “a simple, light comedy with dramatic underpinnings, and a pleasant way to spend an evening.” Fox Searchlight will expand it in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, the distributor’s other romantic tale, (500) Days of Summer, moved into an additional 181 theaters, for a total of 266, and averaged $10,439 per screen. It’s grossed $6.8 million in three weeks of release, a nice piece of change for a movie that tries to play around with a basic formula to generally pleasing results. Among other debuting titles, dolphin documentary The Cove performed the best, raking in $14,410 per screen, good enough to finish ahead of Park Chan-wook’s vampire drama Thirst, which made $13,972 at each of four locations. Opening on 102 screens, Love Aaj Kal grossed $12,174 per scr
