The Only Living Pickpocket in New York made a major move in its second week, topping $1.9 million as Sony Pictures Classics expanded the John Turturro-led film from six screens to 1,112.

The Noah Segan film now has an estimated cumulative gross of $2.1 million. Turturro stars as an aging New York pickpocket trying to return a valuable stolen USB drive to a vengeful crime family.

The expansion arrives alongside strong critical and audience scores. The film is Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh at 97%, with a 95% audience score. Turturro also received a Gotham Award nomination last week, while the film earned the Golden Eye Award at the Zurich Film Festival in September.

Documentaries and Awards Contenders Post New Results

National Geographic’s Everest: The Other Side debuted with $1 million from 515 locations. Imax accounted for $825,000 of that opening total.

Filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have been actively promoting the documentary. On Friday evening, they went to the top of a 12-story building on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, and successfully rappelled down its side.

Netflix opened Peter Berg’s World War II drama The Mosquito Bowl to $455,000 across 349 screens. It is the streamer’s second film released under a new approach to reporting box-office results for certain projects.

Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgard, Raymond Nicholson and Tom Francis star as college football players taken from the height of their sports careers into Marine training and the Pacific theater.

Another Netflix title, awards contender La Bola Negra, collected $418,000 in its third week, bringing its cumulative gross to $1.2 million.

Moderate and Wide Indie Openings

Among the new moderate and wide independent releases, Telugu-language action comedy Aadarsha Kutumbam House No: 47, from Shloka Entertainments, led with $1.1 million from 400 locations.

Roadside Attractions’ Sight & Sound Presents: JOSHUA Live! opened with $758,000 on 1,230 screens, while Briarcliff Entertainment’s Christmas at the Kringles debuted to $675,000 from 1,825 locations.

Samuel Goldwyn Films launched the Liam Neeson-starring The Mongoose, directed by Mark Vaneslow, with $480,000 at 1,014 locations. Psychological horror film Breeder, from Independent Film Company and Shudder, posted an estimated three-day gross of $293,000. Including preview screenings, it has reached $566,000 from 777 screens.

Limited Releases Add to Their Totals

Mubi’s Fatherland, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and starring Hans Zischler and Sandra Hüller, grossed $122,000 from 45 theaters in its second week. Its cumulative total stands at $250,500.

Neon’s documentary Once Upon A Time In Harlem, which is Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh at 100%, earned $91,000 from 15 screens in week three. The film has now grossed $273,000.

Neon’s NAZA, which the distributor recently acquired during its theatrical run, brought in $42,000 from 80 screens in its fifth week. Its cumulative gross has reached $1.9 million.

Greenwich Entertainment opened Queen At Sea to $10,000 at the Angelika Film Center in New York City. The Juliette Binoche-starring drama is the second feature from Ballast writer-director Lance Hammer. At its Berlin premiere, it won the Silver Bear Jury Prize and the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance, shared by Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall.

Holdovers Continue Their Runs

A24’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything earned more than $10 million in its third weekend, lifting its total past $63 million.

Laika’s animated Wildwood, released through Fathom Entertainment, was tracking toward a second weekend of between $7 million and $8 million and was on course to pass $25 million.

Black Bear’s Wicker grossed $4.1 million from 2,374 theaters, taking its cumulative total to $13.3 million. Its second-week decline was 28%. The distributor said the film broadened its older audience on the strength of reviews and word of mouth, while younger viewers were recommending it at higher rates than during opening weekend.

Focus Features’ Sense & Sensibility added $1.4 million from 1,888 theaters in its second week, bringing its total to $16.8 million.

ShowBiz Take

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York entered its second week with several advantages already in place: strong critic and audience scores, recent awards attention and a dramatically larger theatrical footprint. Turning a six-screen start into a 1,112-screen release made this weekend the first major test of how broadly the Turturro vehicle could play.

Its estimated $2.1 million total also places it within a busy field of documentaries, awards contenders, international releases and wide independent titles. With everything from Everest: The Other Side drawing most of its opening through Imax to You Can See Everything moving beyond $63 million, the results show several very different films finding theatrical audiences at sharply different scales.