The movie chain Cinemark reported its highest-ever domestic box office performance for the month of May, thanks to a combination of independent horror films like “Obsession” and “Backrooms,” and bigger studio movies like “The Devil Wears Prada 2” and “Michael.”Given the strength at the box office, “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal checked in with Stephanie Silverman, executive director of the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee. The nonprofit offers both new releases and reparatory screenings, like a series of summer epics planned around the release of “The Odyssey” this July. Even tough the Belcourt isn’t showing “Obsession” or “Backrooms,” Silverman called the success of the independent films “the most exciting thing.” “To see these movies come out of the gate with such energy and such enthusiasm is really exciting because this is a business at the end of the day, and those ticket sales talk to the studios,” Silverman said. “The studios are the folks that we need investing in new voices and truly original filmmaking.” To hear their conversation, use the play button at the top of the page.