The 20 Highest Grossing Indies of 2018 (Gallery)

By Kate Erbland

1. “I Can Only Imagine”
2. “I Feel Pretty”
3. “BlacKkKlansman”
4. “Den of Thieves”
5. “Hereditary”
6. “Mile 22”
7. “Peppermint”
8. “Isle of Dogs”
9. “Adrift”
10. “Searching”
11. “Strangers: Prey at Night”
12. “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
13. “The Happytime Murders”
14. “Show Dogs”
15. “Sorry to Bother You”
16. “Chappaquiddick”
17. “Forever My Girl”
18. “RBG”
19. “Eighth Grade”
20. “Three Identical Strangers”

The following list only includes domestic (U.S. and Canada only, unless otherwise indicated) grosses for specialty films — which we define to include independent, foreign (including Bollywood films), and/or documentary films — that opened in limited release (599 screens and under) in 2018 AND/OR were acquired or produced for 2018 distribution by an independent distributor (including STX Films, Annapurna, A24, Entertainment Studios, Amazon, Netflix, Aviron, and Bleecker Street) or a studio or its specialty division (including Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics, and Focus Features).

Grosses include all reported grosses (via BoxOfficeMojo) up to December 11, 2018. This chart is updated every Tuesday afternoon.