Longlegs Is Now the Highest-Grossing Indie Film of the Year

Break retired the day barroom and unwrap that bundle that definite looks similar it contains an eerily lifelike doll: Longlegs is celebrating a large milestone. Osgood Perkins‘ breakout fearfulness film starring Maika Monroe arsenic an unusually intuitive FBI cause and Nicolas Cage arsenic the nightmarish serial slayer she’s chasing is present officially 2024’s highest-grossing autarkic film.

According to a property merchandise from Neon, the workplace down Longlegs, the movie has present crossed the $100 cardinal box-office people worldwide. Furthermore, “with a existent cumulative gross of $72 cardinal successful the U.S. and Canada, Longlegs is the highest autarkic movie merchandise of 2024 frankincense acold and the apical grossing R-rated fearfulness movie of 2024.” That nightmarish selling campaign truly worked!

Those numbers people a immense achievement—especially considering the movie has yet to unfastened successful definite cardinal markets, including Italy and Latin America. So acold worldwide, it’s scored large successful the UK and Ireland (“the apical grossing planetary territory for the film, presently with $10 million”), arsenic good arsenic Canada ($7 million).

Even much superlatives: Longlegs has grossed much successful the U.S. than Neon’s erstwhile apical release, the Oscar-winning Parasite (which did gain much globally); it’s besides “the highest grossing indie fearfulness movie of the past 10 years,” with a instrumentality that eclipses different notable caller hits, including Talk to Me, Insidious Chapter 3, and Hereditary.

With this successful mind, Neon is intelligibly thrilled it’s got different Perkins fearfulness movie successful the pipeline—Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, coming successful February—and that it’s producing It Follows sequel They Follow, starring Longlegs‘ Monroe.

On a broader scale, Longlegs‘ lucrative occurrence stands to buoy the full indie fearfulness genre. Audiences who had a bully clip watching Nic Cage’s unnerving show whitethorn beryllium much apt to question retired different delightfully freaky, offbeat releases—and indie studios conscionable got different nudge that, arsenic always, investing successful low-budget fearfulness tin reap immense rewards.

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