Christian Nilsson: Last News

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During the lockdown, there’s been pressure to be productive. What did you achieve? Did you become fluent in Mandarin? Learn to bake something that doesn’t harrowingly resemble the Pillsbury Doughboy’s afterbirth? Developed a newfound interest in staring at the wall and contemplating the futility of existence? (Hey, it beats watching Netflix’s The Floor Is Lava).Trumping all of our accomplishments with the certainty of Indiana Jones smugly rocking up to the Antiques Roadshow with the Ark of the Covenant however, are YouTuber Eric Tabach and director Christian Nilsson who topped the box office with a $0-budget movie.

While the coronavirus pandemic stifled film production in its traditional sense, two filmmakers found a way to make a movie with a zero-dollar budget that became the No. 1 film in America all because they exploited a loophole.

Unsubscribe, a 29-minute horror movie shot entirely on video-conferencing app Zoom, made $25,488 (£20,510) in ticket sales on one day, securing the US box office top spot above films The Wretched and Becky.That’s thanks to filmmakers Eric Tabach and Christian Nilsson, who told BBC News how they managed to get their film to number one on June 10.Tabach, an actor and YouTuber from Philadelphia, and Nilsson, a filmmaker from New York, used the ‘four-walling’ sales technique and took advantage of the limited theatrical release schedule during the coronavirus pandemic to top the chart.This is how you make it in Hollywood https://t.co/b8yFHsn2W9— Eric Tabach (@EricTabach) June 14, 2020‘Four-walling’, as Rabach told the BBC, “is when distributors