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vancouver-shot longlegs is a summer box office hit
nicolas cage horror film becomes top grossing indie horror/thriller
jul 31 2024
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vancouver-shot film longlegs is the surprise indie hit of the summer.
set aside the juggernauts of deadpool & wolverine and inside out 2, the horror/thriller is the biggest box office story of the season so far.
to date it has brought in almost $60 million usd in north america, after just three weeks in theatres.
neon, the american independent film production and distribution company behind the film, kept the shooting budget for longlegs under $10 million usd and had a digital-focused marketing campaign in the same price range.
the film has surpassed a24’s 2022 film talk to me ($48 million domestically) to become the largest indie horror/thriller in north america in the past decade. talk to me has a global count of $92.1 million usd. longlegs is at $66.7 million usd globally to date.
the film also ranks as neon‘s highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing the oscar-winning parasite with $53.36 million usd in north america.
directed by osgood perkins and produced by the vancouver-based production company oddfellows pictures, longlegs, is set in the ’90s and follows maika monroe as f.b.i. agent lee harker, who is tracking the serial killer known as longlegs (nicolas cage).
“longlegs is the perfect example of what we think it takes to break out in the theatrical market,” oddfellows pictures president and founder chris ferguson told postmedia, adding the company is producing two more perkins films which will be released next year. “it’s a unique cinematic experience brought to you by a singular visionary director who is trying to do something that stands entirely on its own. oz comes to a project to make his own piece of work, something new that is not emulating past successes in the marketplace.
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“this approach can only work when paired with distributors who understand that they have to sell something that is really unique. with neon and elevation we had that, they saw what the film was and knew how to tell the audience this was something they could not miss.”
perkins told postmedia in an earlier story that his inspiration for the film came from seeing silence of the lambs back when he was a teenager.
“it was derived from my appreciation of silence of the lambs, which was a movie i had seen at a particularly ripe time in my life,” said perkins, speaking over the phone from los angeles.
“i don’t think anybody my age who is interested in movies will ever forget silence of the lambs and the way it felt … and the way it sort of cornered the market on excellence in the genre.”
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