The arthouse never died.If you want to keep it alive, just make more jaw-dropping, outrageous fare which can excite the 18-34 crowd.That’s the trick, and that’s what A24 did with the Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert directed martial arts family fantasy feature, Everything Everywhere All at Once, which by Sunday will become A24’s highest grossing movie ever at the domestic box office with a take between $50M-$52M.
Yesterday, the movie with a running total of $49.1M became A24’s second-highest grossing movie ever stateside, taking over the Oscar-nominated Lady Bird which ended its U.S./Canada run at $48.95M.Everything Everywhere All at Once‘s domestic B.O.
by Sunday will easily unseat A24’s previous highest grossing movie stateside, the 2019 Safdie Brothers directed Adam Sandler caper, Uncut Gems which finaled at $50M after 13 weekends.
Everything Everywhere All at Once crosses the studio’s milestone in its ninth weekend. Booked in 1,576 theaters, the expectation is that the Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan film grosses more or less $3M over the next three days.Everything Everywhere All at Once hits an A24 record at a great time when the studio has an embarrassment of riches a the Cannes Film Festival including the HBO Max series Irma Vep, the Directors Fortnight title Men from Alex Garland (also opening in the U.S.
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