Neon opened its sixth consecutive Cannes Palme d’Or winner It Was Just An Accident by Iranian director Jafar Panahi to a $68k weekend on three screens. That’s $115k over five days following it’s Wednesday debut at Film at Lincoln Center and Film Forum in NYC, and AMC Century City in LA. The distributor has had the top Cannes prize winners since Parasite in 2019, followed by Titane (2021), Triangle of Sadness (2022), Anatomy of a Fall (2023) and Anora last year.

Panahi, who has been imprisoned in Iran several times, is Stateside for the first time in two decades for the opening, doing a flurry of Q&As. He was forbidden to travel abroad for years and had to film the darkly comic film in secret, the topic of a heartfelt conversation with Martin Scorsese at the New

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