‘On The Basis of Sex’ Best Of Holiday Weekend Start for Newcomers; ‘Beale Street’ Surges: Specialty Box Office

It won't be a holiday week to remember for the specialties, unfortunately. Q4 of 2018 has generally not mirrored last year's burst of audience excitement, save for a few titles (at best), and this holiday week and weekend has not given much of a boost. Focus Features/Participant's Ruth Bader Ginsburg narrative, On The Basis of Sex, which came on the heels of the documentary box office champ, RBG from earlier this year, took the weekend's best opening per-theater…

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