BLUE IS GREEN AT INDIE BOX OFFICE

Opening in limited release, this year’s Cannes Film Festival winner Blue Is the Warmest Color turned out to be very green as it brought in $101,116 from two theaters in New York and two in Los Angeles. Its NC-17 rating did not appear to affect ticket sales as its $25,279 per-screen average topped last year’s receipts ($22,755 per theater) for Cannes-winner Amour, which was rated PG-13. Both films are French-language productions. Overseas, Gravity had no problem remaining the top attraction as it attracted an out-of-this-world $36.6 million in 54 markets in its fourth weekend to bring its overseas total to $164 million. Its worldwide total has now reached $365 million. There was no Johnny Knoxville to challenge it abroad. The No. 2 and No. 3 finishers were both animated family films, Sony’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, which took in $17.9 million, and Fox’s Turbo, which brought in $14.2 million. Coming in fourth was Sony’s Captain Phillips, with $12.1 million.