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Get away the birthday cake and unwrap that bundle that certain appears prefer it accommodates an eerily lifelike doll: Longlegs is celebrating a giant milestone. Osgood Perkins‘ breakout horror movie starring Maika Monroe as an unusually intuitive FBI agent and Nicolas Cage because the nightmarish serial killer she’s chasing is now formally 2024’s highest-grossing unbiased movie.
In keeping with a press launch from Neon, the studio behind Longlegs, the movie has now crossed the $100 million box-office mark worldwide. Moreover, “with a present cumulative gross of $72 million within the U.S. and Canada, Longlegs is the very best unbiased movie launch of 2024 up to now and the highest grossing R-rated horror movie of 2024.” That nightmarish advertising and marketing marketing campaign actually labored!
These numbers mark an enormous achievement—particularly contemplating the movie has but to open in sure key markets, together with Italy and Latin America. Up to now worldwide, it’s scored huge within the UK and Eire (“the highest grossing worldwide territory for the movie, presently with $10 million”), in addition to Canada ($7 million).
Much more superlatives: Longlegs has grossed extra within the U.S. than Neon’s earlier prime launch, the Oscar-winning Parasite (which did earn extra globally); it’s additionally “the very best grossing indie horror movie of the final 10 years,” with a take that eclipses different notable current hits, together with Discuss to Me, Insidious Chapter 3, and Hereditary.
With this in thoughts, Neon is clearly thrilled it’s bought one other Perkins horror film within the pipeline—Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, coming in February—and that it’s producing It Follows sequel They Comply with, starring Longlegs‘ Monroe.
On a broader scale, Longlegs‘ profitable success stands to buoy your entire indie horror style. Audiences who had fun watching Nic Cage’s unnerving efficiency could also be extra more likely to search out different delightfully freaky, offbeat releases—and indie studios simply bought one other nudge that, as at all times, investing in low-budget horror can reap large rewards.
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