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Halloween weekend at the cinema is usually a parade of masks, monsters and jump scares. This year the surprise came from somewhere else entirely. A documentary, You Can See Everything, took the top spot on Friday at the North American box office and is on course to finish the weekend narrowly ahead of Clayface, the …
Nobody expected the biggest talking point of the October 16 to 18 weekend to be a nonfiction film that runs for three hours. Yet that is exactly what happened in North American cinemas. A24’s You Can See Everything, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, earned an estimated $15 million from just 855 screens and …
On a weekend crowded with Marvel nostalgia and big studio launches, A24’s Primetime delivered a quieter kind of win. Starring Robert Pattinson as television host Chris Hansen, the drama opened to an estimated $19.2 million from roughly 2,863 North American theaters — a fourth-place finish that still counts as a breakout for a $15 million …
Kane Parsons’ liminal nightmare finally leaves the theater for the living room. The Backrooms, the A24 feature that turned endless fluorescent hallways into box-office dread, began streaming on HBO Max on September 25. Chiwetel Ejiofor maps an infinite yellow maze while Renate Reinsve stares into the kind of void that made the original internet creepypasta …
Saturday night on the Lido did not stay polite. Lance Oppenheim’s A24 drama Primetime premiered in Venice’s Sala Grande and walked out with a nearly eight-minute standing ovation — the kind of festival noise that turns a screening into industry lore before the credits fade. Robert Pattinson leads as Chris Hansen, the television host whose …