Neon’s Cannes Palme d’Or-winning drama Fjord starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve had a terrific $124k opening on four screens in New York and Los Angeles, as documentary Naza marks a strong week two expansion.

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord is the director’s second Palme d’Or for Mungiu and the seventh consecutive win for Neon. The film also took the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes and is Romania’s Oscar entry for Best International Feature. It follows a devout Romanian Norwegian couple named Gheorghius who resettle in a village in a distant fjord where they become close to their neighbors, the Halbergs. Their children bond. But when adolescent Elia Gheorghiu shows up at school with bruises, the community questions the traditional education the Gheorghiu yougsters are getting from their parents. Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh at 90%.

Naza by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the Oscar winning directors of No Other Land, will top $500k Monday after a week two expansion.

Some exhibitors are including four-day weekend estimates to note Monday, the Columbus Day holiday in the U.S.

After grossing $125k over its first eight days at the IFC Center in New York, the doc broadened to 85 engagements in 30+ markets for an estimated $298k for the 3-day weekend and an estimated $378.2k over the four days, bringing its cume to $504,074.

The film, released independently with the backing of The Guardian and MK2, sees the directors interviewing Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers, whose identities are hidden, on the civilian death toll in Gaza. It will continue to roll out through October.

At 100% certified fresh with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Chris Rock’s Misty Green from A24 launched in limited release on six screens in NY and LA to $85.7k for the three-day weekend and $98.7k for the four days. Star Rosalind Eleazar’s portrait of a talented actress fighting for her second act in Hollywood has earned praise since the film’s TIFF premiere alongside a cast including Daniel Kaluuya, Adam Driver, Anna Kendrick and Rock himself. Expand selectively into top markets this weekend.

Bleecker Street is eyeing a circa $70k three-day gross for Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk on four screens for a per theater average of $17.2k. The buzzy Venice-premiering doc has a near four-hour runtime that limits showtimes.

California Schemin’ from Magenta Light Studios directed by James McAvoy opened to an estimated $18.7k at five locations in NY and LA. McAvoy stars with Seamus McLean Ross, Samuel Bottomley, Lucy Halliday and Rebekah Murrell in the story of two Scottish lads from Dundee who conned the music industry by pretending to be an established Californian rap duo.

Julia Loktev’s sweeping documentary My Undesirable Friends Part II – Exile opened exclusively at New York’s Film Forum this weekend. A follow up to Part I released last year, which was short-listed for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature and won both the NYFCC and LAFCC awards for Best Non-Fictions film, is estimated to gross $7.5k limited by the 6-hour running time and seating capacity (100 seats).

Independently released with the support of Cinetic and mTuckman media, the Venice and Telluride selection next opens Los Angeles on Oct. 16 before rolling out to markets across the country throughout the fall

Holdover If I Go Will They Miss Me is estimated to gross $29.6k on 42 screens for a rising new cume of $980.7k in week 5. The Rich Spirit release stars Danielle Brooks and J Alphonse Nicholson and is directed by Walter Thompson-Hernandez. RT certified fresh at 95%, it will continue to play exclusively in theaters in coming weeks.

Notable: Fathom Entertainment’s release ofGuillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth 20th Anniversary, ranked no. 11 at the domestic box office with an estimated $1.66 million from 1,168 locations.In postwar Spain, a young girl discovers a mysterious labyrinth and a magical world while living under the rule of her brutal stepfather. The 2006 film stars Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú and Doug Jones.

Trafalgar Releasing’s concert film Queen Budapest pulled in at no. 16 with an estimated $681k from 312 locations.The concert film captures Queen’s 1986 stadium performance in Budapest during the Magic Tour. Featuring Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, the restored film is directed by János Zsombolyai.

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It’s a new week and that means a new round of picking what you want to watch each night. Over on Hulu this week, the options are getting a little scary, but also pretty fun.

This week specifically, there are more shows than movies premiering, so our recommendations are going to pull just a touch from films that hit the streamer earlier this month. The good news is, there are so many options at the start of each month, it’s entirely likely you haven’t made it through all your best options just yet. So, allow us to help whittle it down.

Here are the three best new movies on Hulu this week.

The Hunger Games Franchise

Realistically, this entire list could’ve been picking our top three “Hunger Games” movies, as the whole franchise hits Hulu this week. But that’s a hard decision to make, so instead, we’re just bundling them into one entry.

Obviously, if you’ve never seen this franchise, you should start at the beginning with just “The Hunger Games.” It really is a trip to realize that that first film is turning 15 years old next year, and see just how young Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson seem in it. It’ll be especially fun to watch it and then work your way up to the most recent film in the franchise, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” ahead of “Sunrise on the Reaping” hitting theaters this November.

Now is the perfect time to start making your way through in order to be ready in time.

Hokum

If you’re looking for something that’s scary in the supernatural sense, rather than the shockingly possible dystopian sense, you’re going to want to go with “Hokum.”

The horror film stars Adam Scott as novelist Ohm Bauman, who heads to a remote inn to scatter his parents’ ashes. But, once he’s there, he’s consumed by tales of a witch that haunts the place. Soon enough, he starts having actual visions and must deal with a disappearance that forces him to face his own past.

This one is decidedly a spooky movie, so for the scaredy cats out there, have a whole lot of comfort nearby. For those of you that thrive on horror like this … have fun, I suppose!

Night at the Museum

If you just need a good old-fashioned comfort film that’s a little goofy, “Night at the Museum” is going to be the safest option.

It stars Ben Stiller as an inventor who can’t seem to get any ideas off the ground, and is struggling to keep a stable job and living situation to support his young son. In an effort to be less of a problem and get some steady income, he becomes the night guard at the Museum of Natural History. The catch is, everything comes to life at night.

That means Robin Williams is Teddy Roosvelt, Owen Wilson and Steve Coogan are miniatures, and Brad Garrett is a giant stone face who just wants some gum-gum from a dum-dum. Oh, and Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney and Bill Cobbs are the bad guys.

It’s really an odd, delightful duck.