Timothée Chalamet's 'Marty Supreme' Is Already Breaking Records

Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Supreme is already breaking records less than a week into its wide release. A24’s buzzy period epic, which stars Chalamet as a table-tennis champ who has his eyes set on greatness, has earned some of the year’s best reviews and seems a likely favorite at the Academy Awards. Still, the film was a surprise success over the Christmas holiday, coming in ahead of Sony’s Anaconda reboot, starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black.

Marty Supreme Already Breaking Records

Marty Supreme delivered the second-largest opening weekend ever for A24, bringing in $27.1 million in its first five days of wide release (including Christmas Eve previews). Combined with a little over a million earned in limited release the week before Christmas, the picture has so far taken $28.3 million. Alex Garland’s Civil War still stands as the studio’s biggest opener. It took $25 million over a traditional three-day weekend when it opened in April 2024. Marty Supreme took third spot at the North American box office, behind Avatar: Fire and Ash and Zootopia 2.

Directed by Josh Safdie, who previously helmed Good Time (2017) and Uncut Gems (2019) alongside his brother, Benny Safdie, Marty Supreme is expected to hold strong throughout the next few months as word of mouth grows. Next month’s Academy Award nominations will undoubtedly boost the box office, as Chalamet seems a shoo-in to net a Best Actor nomination for the titular role.

A24 and Chalamet Conspired for a Can't-Miss Publicity Push

Exit polling showed that 65 percent of Marty Supreme’s audience was aged 35 or younger, a rather astonishing figure for an R-rated, original-concept period sports drama. But A24, the studio behind Ladybird (2017), Hereditary (2018), and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2021), has always been particularly adept at marketing campaigns that tantalizingly tease the product while instilling just enough FOMO in consumers. Combined with Chalamet’s innate hype-man abilities and a series of well-gauged social media ads, Marty Supreme rose to dominance through an old-fashioned grassroots campaign.

Marty Supreme came in well ahead of Sony’s Anaconda, which settled for fifth place after being mooted to take the second spot behind Avatar: Fire and Ash. Tom Gormican’s meta “reimagining” of the 1997 Ice Cube/J. Lo vehicle stars Black and Rudd as luckless wannabe entertainers who venture into the Brazilian jungle to shoot a low-fi remake of Anaconda, only to be set upon by gold smugglers and a very real anaconda.