Sebastian Stan’s New Movie Gets a 162% Boost After Expanding Its Theatrical Run

As the end of 2026 inches closer, online discourse surrounding next year’s Oscars race heats up. Festival season has introduced the world to several names who look set to see their titles among the Best Picture nominees at the 99th Academy Awards. Of course, the frontrunner is Christopher Nolan‘s epic adaptation of Homer‘s The Odyssey, which looks destined to overtake Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners as the most nominated film of all time.

But who would’ve expected one of The Odyssey‘s biggest contenders to come in the form of a documentary, with You Can See Everything now sure to become the first doc to earn a Best Picture nomination? Other contenders for Oscars prizes include Obsession, the horror phenomenon starring Best Actress candidate Inde Navarrette, the Andrew Scott-led Elsinore, filmmaking duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi‘s La Bola Negra, Martin McDonagh‘s Wild Horse Nine, and Cristian Mungiu‘s Fjord, which became the writer-director’s second Palme d’Or winner earlier this year. After much buzz about this politically charged drama, it finally made its limited debut in American theaters on October 9.

This past weekend, Fjord benefited from a wider opening in domestic theaters, moving from just 13 locations last weekend to 107. This increase was reflected in ticket sales, with Fjord earning a 162% boost as it moved up to 18th in the domestic ranks, coming in ahead of this year’s biggest movies, The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day at theaters this weekend. The biggest earner this past weekend was the debuting Clayface, director James Watkins‘ (Speak No Evil) new DCU body horror.

Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger
for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it
would cost you to stay.

You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are
loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the
room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.

• The Avengers are not friends who became a team. They are a team that slowly and
  reluctantly became friends, and you would recognise every stage of that process.
• You can hold your own among big egos without needing to win every exchange, which is the
  real entry requirement here.
• The arguing is part of the method. This group does its best thinking mid-disagreement,
  usually at volume, usually in a very expensive building.
• When the sky opens, they are who shows up. You would want to be standing in that line.

You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The
X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something
in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.

• This is the only team on the list whose central conflict is not a villain. It is being
  wanted gone by the same people they keep saving.
• You know what it is to be the outsider in a room and to decide, anyway, that you will
  not make yourself smaller so everyone else is comfortable.
• The X-Men are the most genuine found family in comics. People arrive with nowhere else
  to go and are never once asked to explain themselves.
• You would not be joining for the glory. There has never been any.

You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are
the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an
inconvenient side effect.

• Every Titan is somebody’s sidekick who decided to stop being one. That decision, not the
  villain of the week, is what the team is actually about.
• You would be joining people who are all working themselves out at the same time as you,
  which is far less lonely than being the only one.
• The Titans lose regularly. Then they eat together and come back better, which is a more
  honest model of growing up than any other team here manages.
• The tower would be loud, chaotic, and the first place that ever felt like yours.

You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a
while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people
in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.

• The Boys have no powers, no mandate and no funding. What they have is leverage,
  patience, and a very high tolerance for consequences.
• You are the person in the room who notices the thing everybody else has quietly agreed
  not to mention.
• This is not a heroic team and it has never pretended otherwise. It is a group of damaged
  people doing necessary work in ways nobody would call clean.
• You would not sleep well. You would keep going anyway.

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Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value) star in Fjord, and the former is gearing up for an appearance in this year’s biggest film still to come. Stan will reprise his role as Bucky Barnes, last seen in Thunderbolts*, in Avengers: Doomsday. Debuting in theaters on December 18 — the same day as Dune: Part Three — the film features the most impressive MCU lineup yet, including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Florence Pugh, Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal, and much more.

Sebastian Stan’s Palme d’Or-winning Fjord is in theaters. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for all the latest box office news.