EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is opening their $15M Sundance pick-up, My Outdated Ass, on Aug. 2 in a restricted rollout.
The LuckyChap and Indian Paintbrush manufacturing comes from director/scribe Megan Park and stars Maisy Stella, Aubrey Plaza, Maddie Ziegler, Percy Hynes White and Kerrice Brooks. Pic follows bright-yet-irreverent Elliott (Stella) the summer season earlier than school as she comes face-to-face along with her older self (Plaza) throughout a mushroom journey. The encounter spurs a humorous and heartfelt journey of self-discovery and old flame as Elliott prepares to depart her childhood dwelling.
My Outdated Ass will function counterprogramming to the summer season blockbuster fare. Opening on Aug. 2 broad is Sony’s Harold and the Purple Crayon and Warner Bros.’ M. Night time Shyamalan film Entice.
Producers are LuckyChap’s Tom Ackerley, Margot Robbie, Josey McNamara and Indian Paintbrush’s Steven Rales.
My Outdated Ass launched within the Premieres class at Sundance and obtained a standing ovation at its Eccles Theatre Jan. 20 premiere. Coming away from the fest, My Outdated Ass scored 89% recent with critics on Rotten Tomatoes from 18 evaluations.
The film comes within the wake of LuckyChap and Amazon MGM’s collaboration on Saltburn which minted $21M WW in its world launch final fall and went onto turn out to be of Prime Video’s prime 10 worldwide movie debuts. Saltburn additionally repped the best week-over-week progress for any Prime Video movie in 2023. Saltburn blasted the 2001 Sophie Ellis-Bextor track “Homicide on the Dance Flooring” again onto the Billboard International 200 charts the place it peaked on the No. 10 spot. She appeared on the BAFTAs final weekend to carry out the ditty.
LuckyChap additionally produced Barbie, which obtained eight Oscar nominations and was final 12 months’s highest grossing movie, garnering $1.4 billion on the world field workplace.
