The conversation about what ails the arthouse market is still treading water.
Some major arthouses (ArcLight, Landmark LA) are MIA in a key market.
Its not clear awards kudos will change that.

‘Alcarras’ and ‘Candy Land ‘Everett Collection
The marketplace needs to listen to what the people are telling them, said one distribution executive.
Or , alternatively, keep budgets low.
Or two if you count scary doll movieM3GANopening wide this weekend that could make a killing.

This is an ensemble portrait of countryside and community bonds in a small Catalonian village.
Starring Josep Abad, Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin and Albert Bosch.
It was Spains Oscar submission for Best International Feature, although not shortlisted.
It goes wide next weekend.
The film grossed $75k for the four-day New Years holiday weekend.
Hes ready to end it all but turns it around when a lively young family moves in next door.
United Artists Releasing is taking Sarah PolleysWomen Talkingup to 29 runs in 14 markets in week three.
Women Talkingis based on the book by Miriam Toews with Brad Pitt as an executive producer.
Corsageby Marie Kreutzer expands to over 300 screens in week 3 after solo runs in New York and LA.
Krieps plays the iconoclastic 19thcentury Empress Elisabeth of Austria.