Published on: 6th August, 2008
Six months after receiving the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Courtney Hunt’s “Frozen River” found winning box office numbers in its first weekend of theatrical release. Opening on seven screens in New York and Los Angeles, the Sony Pictures Classics release grossed ,322 for a per-theater-average of ,476. The film’s patient expansion schedule should hope to follow the promise of two recent films, this weekend’s iW BOT leader, Brad Anderson’s “Transsiberian,” and Guillaume Canet’s “Tell No…