Overview
- The film earned about $875,000 from six screens in New York and Los Angeles, delivering a roughly $145,900 per-theater average that A24 says is its best ever and the year’s top platform PSA.
- Rotten Tomatoes lists a critics’ score holding near 95% as the movie heads into wide release on Dec. 25, with praise for Timothée Chalamet’s performance and a handful of dissenting reviews.
- Chalamet’s youth-focused campaign escalated with a Cash App-backed Sphere stunt in Las Vegas that turned the venue into an orange ping-pong ball, alongside an orange blimp, merch drops and surprise theater drop-ins.
- Reactions to the press tour are split after the actor called his turn his best work and made confident TV remarks interpreted as awards talk, which he has framed as channeling the film’s ambitious spirit.
- Industry watchers cite growing Best Actor momentum for Chalamet as A24 expands the Josh Safdie-directed, R-rated, 149-minute drama nationwide on Christmas Day, with a reported budget near $70 million.