អ្វីគ្រប់យ៉ាង, គ្រប់ទីកន្លែង' ឆ្លងកាត់ $ 50 លានដុល្លារ, ក្លាយជាកំពូល Grosser របស់ A24

With another $889,738 on Friday, a drop of just 3% from last Friday, អ្វីគ្រប់យ៉ាង, គ្រប់ទីកន្លែងទាំងអស់នៅពេលតែមួយ has now earned $50.17 million domestic. That puts it just over $6,000 away from passing Adam Sandler’s ត្បូងមិនកាត់។ ($50.023 million in late 2019/early 2020). Once it does so, by the end of this sentence, it’ll be A24’s biggest domestic earner, even accounting for inflation. Give or take overseas updates tomorrow, it will rank fourth among A24-specific films at the worldwide box office (although A24 is almost entirely a domestic-centric distribution outlet), behind ពន្លឺ​ព្រះចន្ទ (១៧៧,៨ លានដុល្លារ), របស់ Lady បក្សី (១៤១ លានដុល្លារ) និង តំណពូជ ($81 million), but give it a few weeks, right?

The Daniels’ $25 million multiverse fantasy should earn around $3.2 million (-3%) in weekend nine (its seventh weekend of semi-wide release) for a new $52.327 million cume. That will put it just below Ridley Scott’s ផ្ទះហ្គីជី ($53.8 million). Once it passes that Lady Gaga/Adam Driver melodrama, it’ll have earned more than any of last year’s Oscar-season hopefuls save for Dune ($108 million). While it’s still not quite as leggy as អ្នកសម្តែងដ៏អស្ចារ្យបំផុត និង អារម្មណ៍ទីប្រាំមួយ, it’s certainly catching up. And frankly, in terms of non-awards season/non-Christmas releases of this nature, I don’t think I’ve seen anything like this since អាពាហ៍ពិពាហ៍ក្រិកធំខ្លាញ់របស់ខ្ញុំ.

That Nia Vardalos-led comedy is an apples-and-oranges comparison for almost any modern release save for maybe the first សង្គ្រាមផ្កាយ It opened in 108 theaters in April of 2002 and slowly earned buzz and bucks throughout the summer. It expanded to 530 theaters in weekend 14, finally topped 1,000 theaters in weekend 18 and was knocking out over/under $10 million weekends and often ranking #2 at the domestic box office through August and September before ending with $243 million domestic. Again, the Michelle Yeoh/Ke Huy Quan/Stephanie Hsu action-comedy isn’t going to perform like that, but that I’m quickly running out of any other comparisons is itself noteworthy.

I don’t think it’s going to spend the entire summer grossing over/under $3 million a week, right? However, it’s not like summer is packed with a deluge of wide releases. The film has defied realistic and plausible expectations from the moment it went semi-wide and didn’t collapse in weekend three. Even with rave reviews, white-hot buzz and its existence as a demographically-specific event movie, this kind of thing just isn’t supposed to happen in our modern theatrical landscape. It’s like Titanic, The Sixth Sense, The Greatest Showman និង អាពាហ៍ពិពាហ៍ក្រិកធំខ្លាញ់របស់ខ្ញុំ, an exception to the rule, a glitch in the matrix and a provider of false hope.

Even with a normal rate of descent, it’ll end its domestic run with around $58 million. However, it should get a modest bump from Memorial Day weekend before facing an early June weekend with zero major wide releases (all due respect to អ្នកមើល និង ឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មនៃអនាគត). Save for May 27 (Top Gun: Maverick និង Bob's Burgers: ភាពយន្ត), June 24 (Elvis និង ទូរស័ព្ទខ្មៅ), July 15 (កន្លែងដែល Crawdads បានច្រៀង និង Paws of Fury) and August 5 (Bullet Train និង បុណ្យអ៊ីស្ទើរថ្ងៃអាទិត្យ), there isn’t a week with more than one “big” release all summer. អ្វីគ្រប់យ៉ាង, គ្រប់ទីកន្លែងទាំងអស់នៅពេលតែមួយ may remain hot all summer by default.