IFC ’s canine-starring supernatural thriller Good Boy wagged its way to a $2.25+ million opening, the label’s second-best debut after 2024 hit Late Night With The Devil ($2.8 million).

At no. 9 this weekend, it will be parent IFC Entertainment Group’s third best opening weekend ever including RLJE’s topper Clown In A Cornfield . IFC acquired Good Boy for Shudder and planned a more modest release but pivoted after the trailer and poster out in July went viral, racking up over 100 million views across the web – the largest reach for any film in company history. IFC took it wider and ramped up marketing. On 1,650 screens, it’s the second biggest opening theater count for the company to date.

The low-budget feature, the directorial debut of film professor Ben Leonberg, premiered

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