Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine" continues the auteur's recent rebound to levels similar to his heyday in the 1970s and 80s. His fifth consecutive release from Sony Pictures Classics scored his career-best best opening results (beating "Midnight in Paris") with a six-theater, three-day total of over $600,000. This number is a record for the June-August period for any live-action limited release. Coming alongside the ongoing success for "Fruitvale Station" and "The Way, Way Back" as they expand successfully while still in their first month of release, the late summer surge in specialized film follows a specialty box office drought since both "Quartet" and "The Place Beyond the Pines" topped $20 million. With the top three films dominating the action this weekend, a handful of limited releases (including three documentaries) show strength at varying stages of release: Radius/Weinstein's doc "20 Feet from Stardom" continues to be the standout. Opening "Blue Jasmine" (Sony...
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