A24's 'The Drama' surpasses $100 million at the global box office in 19 days

The independent film studio, A24is celebrating the success of its rom-com The Dramawhich just surpassed $100 million at the global box office.

The achievement comes in just 19 days of exhibition in theaters, quickly crowning itself as the writer and director's biggest box office hit, Kristoffer Borgliand a blockbuster of a project that is not high profile, for the protagonists Zendaya y Robert Pattinson.

In the dramathe actors play an engaged couple who will falter before their wedding day.

With an estimated production cost of $28 million, The Drama was already profitable after two weekends of theatrical release.

Your current box office is the following:

• $40 mdd – domestic box office
• $60 mdd – international box office
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Its main international markets include the United Kingdom ($10.8 million), Latin America ($7.9 million), France ($5.3 million), Italy ($5.2 million).

This is A24's fifth feature film to surpass $100 million worldwide, since the studio's launch in 2012. The other four films to do so are: Everything Everywhere All at Once ($147 mdd), Civil War ($127 mdd), Materialists ($108 mdd) y Marty Supreme ($180 mdd).

It should be noted that all five films were released in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, making A24's achievement even more notable.

For Zendaya, it marks the biggest global box office hit outside of franchises Spider-Man y Duneand exceeds the total global box office of Challengers ($96 mdd).

A24 has a good chance of continuing to score box office successes; The premieres of Backrooms by Kane Parsons (May 29), The Death of Robin Hood by Michael Sarnoski (June 19), and The Invite by Olivia Wilde (June 26), while this weekend expands the premiere of Mother Mary de David Lowery.

SYNOPSIS:

“Days before their wedding, a couple's relationship is shaken when one of them discovers disturbing truths about the other.”

The cast also includes Alana Haim (One Battle After Another), Mamoudou Athie (Archive 81), Michael Abbott Jr. (Killers of the Flower Moon), Hailey Gates (Marty Supreme), Sydney Lemmon (Warehouse), y Zoe Winters (Materialists).

the drama is financed and produced by A24. Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsummer) is producing it with his company Square Peg, with Lars Knudsen and Tyler Campellone as other producers.

the dramanow in theaters.