EXCLUSIVE: How does it really feel, Searchlight?
Completely nice forward of the Oscars, as James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown is kind of identified all over the world coursing previous $100M on the international field workplace.
The eight-time Oscar nominated film is now Searchlight Photos’ No. 6 highest grossing title of all-time on the home field workplace with $69.5M behind Sideways ($71.5M) and it’s anticipated to strum to the Disney traditional label’s fifth greatest ever within the coming weeks.
In its first weekend, the Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro film repped Searchlight’s greatest opening ($11.6M 3-day, $23.2M 5-day) since Disney acquired the corporate, shortly rating because the second-largest opening within the studio’s historical past – simply behind 2009’s Infamous ($20.4M).
In its second weekend, the movie turned Searchlight’s highest grossing movie domestically since Disney acquired the corporate in early 2019 – surpassing 2022’s The Menu ($38.5M home). A Full Unknown is heading into its eighth weekend on the home field workplace.
In its opening weekend per Display Engine/Comscore’s PostTrak, the Chalamet followers got here out at 56% feminine, with general audiences awarding the Jay Cocks-scripted film 5 stars with an ‘A’ Cinemascore.
Internationally, because the releases have rolled out throughout January and February, A Full Unknown has taken the #1 spot in main territories together with the UK (for 3 weeks straight), Australia and NZ, France and Italy.
Abroad openings will proceed throughout February with main markets – Spain, Brazil, Japan and Germany releasing on the finish of February. On Friday, the Berlin Movie Pageant will host the German premiere of A Full Unknown in a Particular Gala Presentation. The pic lands on digital on Feb. 25.
Mangold’s earlier music icon biopic, Stroll the Line, about Johnny and June Carter Money made $119.5M home, $186.7M worldwide on the field workplace again in 2005. The film was nominated for 5 Oscars and gained Finest Actress for Reese Witherspoon.
A Full Unknown counts 4 SAG Awards nominations together with for Chalamet for lead actor, Barbaro for Feminine Actor in a Supporting Position, Norton for Male Actor in a Supporting Position, and for Excellent Efficiency by a Solid in a Movement Image. Mangold was nominated for the DGA Awards, his first DGA nod – his Oscar nomination for Finest Director marks his first for that class. The movie was additionally nominated for the PGA Awards and WGA Awards for tailored screenplay. The film notched three Golden Globe noms, three Critics Alternative noms and was lauded on the AFI High Ten record of the 12 months. The pic obtained the Visionary Tribute Award on the Gotham Awards for each Mangold and Chalamet, the Chairman’s Award for Chalamet from the Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Awards, and the Trailblazer Award for Mangold at this 12 months’s Sundance. This week it obtained the Arlington Artist of the 12 months for Chalamet from Santa Barbara Movie Pageant, the Virtuosos Award for Barbaro, and the Excellent Administrators of the 12 months Award for Mangold.
