Overview
- Deadline reports a $4.2 million domestic haul, making the film Park’s highest-grossing release in the U.S., with a global total near $27 million.
- NEON is pushing a wider rollout to about 700 theaters in the fourth weekend, including plays in IMAX and strong holds in key markets such as New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Seattle.
- The film is shortlisted for the international Oscar, with a potential nomination next week, and it previously won Toronto’s International People’s Choice Award following a Venice standing ovation.
- The Chicago Tribune gave a 4-out-of-4 review, praising Park’s tonal control and Lee Byung-hun’s performance in a dark satire about layoffs and labor anxiety.
- In an IndieWire interview, Park detailed production choices—securing a ‘cookie-cutter’ house and building the garden, greenhouse, and bamboo forest—while noting the added bonsai motif and dropped dance-party element in this Korean adaptation.