‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and A24’s Mystique

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Matt is joined by The Hollywood Reporter’s Rebecca Keegan to discuss the indie hit ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and why it resonated with audiences. Later, they talk about A24’s unique cachet in Hollywood, its innovation in marketing and brand awareness, and whether it will eventually be acquired. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Rebecca Keegan Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Bill Simmons. We're not just reacting to the NBA playoffs on my podcast. We're also doing it on the Ringer NBA show and the mismatch podcast. They are coming after some of these NBA playoff games. Check it out, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights on the Ringer podcast Network.
0:19.3	It is Monday, June 6th. Welcome back. We are going to talk film success stories. So much
0:24.1	doom and gloom out there. I think today would be nice to do a story about a successful film.
0:29.9	But before we do, let's talk about another successful film. Top Gun, Maverick. It's up to
0:34.1	$550 million worldwide. And I'm going to take a little victory lap here, producer Craig,
0:39.2	because I predicted on the show last week that it would have an unprecedented 30% drop in its second weekend,
0:46.8	which is unheard of for big blockbusters.
0:49.3	They usually are 50, 60, 70% drops.
0:52.0	This movie came in with $86 million domestic this past weekend,
0:56.4	a 32% drop. Unbelievable. There's nothing else out there, though. There's literally nothing else to
1:02.7	see. That's true. Well, that's part of the reason why I predicted is because for the first time in
1:06.9	years, there was no movie opening in the first week of June, so, or no big movie.
1:12.5	So it had it all to itself. I also think that that movie is pretty unique, Top Gun, and that
1:16.5	it's an older demo, and they don't necessarily rush out to movies. They take their time. So it's got
1:22.1	the benefit of that pent-up demand. People are like, got to see this movie. And then all these other people that are like,
1:28.3	okay, yeah, I'll get around to it. The word of mouth was also great. It became something that if
1:32.3	you're over 40, you know, at least my friends are just like, you got to go see this movie. You got to
1:36.7	see it. I think it'll have a harder time this next weekend with Jurassic World just because that's going to steal a lot of screens. It's going to steal a lot of attention.
1:44.8	But we'll see how this movie plays. It could get to a billion, which is what I thought it could
1:48.4	get close to. Now, we'll see. So today, actually, I don't want to talk about Top Gun. I want to
1:53.1	talk about another film, everything, everywhere, all the time, which if you haven't seen it. All at once. All right. It's a bad title. It is a bad title.
2:03.4	But they, I mean, they incorporated in it, but whatever. Actually, is it a bad title? I don't know.
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