It will arrive in Italy on January 22nd, but in the meantime Marty Supreme with Timothée Chalamet confirms at the US box office the star’s ability to attract audiences, even towards an independent production about a slightly crazy ping pong champion.
We’ll have to wait until January 22nd to see in the room Marty Supreme con Timothée Chalametbut we can already appreciate that in the States, despite the competition from Avatar: Fire and Ashthe independent feature film by Josh Safdie started with excellent numbers at boxoffice: obvious only because Timothée is there with his star-like prowess, because it is still a relatively small production, a fake biopic of a ping pong player who really existed…
Marty Supreme is off to a very good start at the US box office
$27 million in four days per Marty Supreme at the US boxoffice: very free biopic of the ping-pong player Marty Reismanrenamed Marty Mauser, the strange film of Josh Safdie according to many analysts he achieved this result thanks to the newly thirty-year-old Timothée Chalametalready capable of dragging hordes of fans to see a musical like Wonka. Marty Supreme is a production”luxury indie” license plate A24who with this shot marks a company record: the best start to one of their feature films it was up to Civil War Of Alex Garlandwith its 25 million. This is another curious film, not normally immediate for the general public and moreover almost two and a half hours long, able to stand up to the competition of Avatar: Fire and Ash e Zootropolis 2 at the American Christmas box office, paving the way for international distribution in the best possible way, including Italy (from January 22nd).
The feature film tells of Marty Mausera shoemaker’s assistant, with the dream of making it big in world of table tenniseven creating his own personal ball patented (the “Marty Supreme“, in fact). He will win twenty-two titles and compete one last time at the age of 67: a prodigy, but also a possessed and reckless characterbetween bets, scams and loves.
The rest of the cast of Marty Supreme consists of Gwyneth Paltrow, Fran Drescher, Sandra Bernhard e Abel Ferraraamong others. Chalamet spent a lot of time on the advertising campaign (even with bizarre teasers), knowing that selling this film would be more difficult than promoting it Dune Parte Treprotagonist of the next one Natale 2026.
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