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Doc box office: 'The Eagle Huntress' skies over competition

1/10/2017

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Film from Otto Bell nears $2.5 million mark
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Aisholpan, the young star of the documentary "The Eagle Huntress." Photo courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
The Eagle Huntress is beginning 2017 the same way it ended 2016: on top of the documentary box office.

The film by Otto Bell continues to charm audiences, collecting another $114,718 over the weekend to easily nest atop the charts. According to audience measurement firm comScore, the documentary's total box office take now stands at $2,460,976.

The visually stunning film, photographed in the Altai Mountains at the intersection of China, Mongolia, Russia and Kazakhstan, focuses on the exploits of 13-year-old Aisholpan who aims to became her country's first female eagle hunter -- a task that involves training an eaglet to hunt (the birds are released back to the wild as adults).

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The documentary enjoys a 93-percent approval rating among critics, per RottenTomatoes.com.


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Aisholpan with her father, learning the art of eagle hunting. Photo courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
The top five documentaries at the North American box office, as compiled by comScore:

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    Matthew Carey is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. His work has appeared on Deadline.com, CNN, CNN.com, TheWrap.com, NBCNews.com and in Documentary magazine.

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