As Comscore Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian explained, Anderson’s films appeal to that core audience but also expand very well and “tend to earn a staggering multiple of that opening limited release revenue,” mainly because of the sheer number of screens they add in Week 2.

In Wes Anderson’s latest creation, Benicio Del Toro plays an industrialist and arms dealer who is trying to survive a series of assassination attempts.