Everything Everywhere All At Once Could Be A24's Highest Grossing Movie
Everything Everywhere All At Once has the chance to become the highest performing A24 film at the domestic box office by the end of its theatrical run. A24 is an independent production and distribution company that has recently become well known for films with an offbeat tone that lean toward horror. Their output has included Oscar winning projects like Lady Bird and Moonlight (which famously won Best Picture despite the award initially being announced for La La Land) as well as films by up-and-coming filmmakers Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) and Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse), the latter of whom just directed the Alexander Skarsgård Viking epic The Northman.
Their latest project is Everything Everywhere All at Once, which was directed by the duo Daniels, who previously helmed the A25 project Swiss Army Man. EEAAO follows Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh), the owner of a laundromat whose tax audit goes horribly awry when she learns that she is at the center of a battle for the fate of the universe and must access the skills of different versions of herself from across the multiverse to fight against the forces of infinite chaos. The film also stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Stephanie Hsu, and Ke Huy Quan, the former child actor who played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Per Deadline, the box office results for this weekend show Everything Everywhere All At Once raking in an additional $5.3 million, bringing its domestic total to $35.2 million. This take is only a 2% drop from what it made the previous weekend, which is an outstanding performance. Although projections for its total domestic theatrical run vary, it has the chance to make over $50 million, which would make it the highest grossing A24 film in the U.S., over the Adam Sandler crime thriller Uncut Gems.
It's important to note that these numbers only refer to the domestic box office. Although Uncut Gems reigns supreme in the U.S. with a domestic take of $50 million, it didn't get worldwide distribution and was outstripped in that arena by Moonlight ($65 million), Lady Bird ($79 million), and Hereditary ($81 million). Everything Everywhere All At Once also lacks a robust worldwide box office, but its astonishingly consistent run and word of mouth success in the U.S. have already allowed it to outpace Moonlight's total domestic gross and close in on the other three films that lie between it and the top slot among A24's output.
American audiences clearly have developed a taste for the multiverse after the massive success of Spider-Man: No Way Home. That project featured the MCU's Peter Parker interacting with characters from The Amazing Spider-Man and the 2002 Spider-Man trilogy after a spell gone wrong causes the Marvel multiverse to collapse in on itself. Everything Everywhere All At Once is certainly scratching that itch, though its incredible run may be supplanted by Marvel's upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which is due in theaters next weekend.
Source: Deadline