Documentary Box Office: 'Linda Ronstadt' Tops Charts Again, 'Maiden' Sails Past $3 million

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice expanded to more than 200 screens over weekend

The new documentary about singer Linda Ronstadt is resonating with moviegoers, to the tune of $686,000.

That's how much Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice made over the weekend (actually $686,370, to be precise), according to audience measurement company comScore.

Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman directed the film about the music icon, who has recorded an incredible number of hits songs including "Blue Bayou," "Desperado," "You're No Good," "Don't Know Much," "Willin'" and "Still Within the Sound of My Voice," among many others.

There's a purity to her voice. That's what we all respond to. And whatever she's singing it's coming from something that's so deeply felt with her.

--Jeffrey Friedman, director of Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

Linda Ronstadt expanded to 220 screens this weekend, up from just seven in its opening weekend. The two-week theatrical gross for the film stands at $841,613, per comScore.

Greenwich Entertainment is distributing the film theatrically. The documentary, produced by CNN Films, will make its broadcast debut on CNN, with a tentative date set for January 1, 2020.

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Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles, about the enduring Broadway mega-hit Fiddler on the Roof, finished in second place among nonfiction films over the weekend. The documentary by Max Lewkowicz has earned $413,946 in four weeks of release.

Third place went to Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins, the documentary by Janice Engel about the famed Texas journalist noted for her brilliant turn of phrase (she gave George W. Bush the nickname "Shrub"). The film has made $284,700 in three weeks of release.

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, the latest documentary from renowned filmmaker Stanley Nelson, took fourth place. Its cume over four weeks is $242,686, comScore reports. 

Maiden, the hit documentary by Alex Holmes, continued its impressive performance at the box office, pushing its total past the $3 million mark after 12 weeks in theaters. The film tells the story of Tracy Edwards, a British sailor who in 1989 assembled the first all-woman crew to take part in the dangerous and grueling Whitbread Round the World yacht race. Their ability to survive the competition was doubted throughout, but the team managed to defy expectations.

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