Russell Crowe’s Forgotten Boxing Movie Knocked Out by Timothée Chalamet’s Oscar-Contender at the Box Office

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Fresh off his Golden Globe win, Timothée Chalamet can celebrate yet another achievement this weekend. His new Oscar-contender, the epic sports film Marty Supreme, has now become the second-highest-grossing hit in the history of the indie distributor A24. It's now trailing only Everything Everywhere All at Once, which swept the Oscars a few years ago. Marty Supreme still hasn't been properly rolled out in international markets, and will likely do very well in the run-up to the Oscars. The movie is all but guaranteed to pass the coveted $100 million mark at the global box office very soon, after which it'll set its sights on overtaking Everything Everywhere All at Once's $143 million global haul to become A24's biggest-ever film. This weekend, Marty Supreme overtook another period sports movie, Cinderella Man.

With $70 million at the domestic box office so far, Marty Supreme has overtaken the $61 million lifetime domestic haul of Russell Crowe's Cinderella Man, which was released two decades ago. Directed by Ron Howard, the movie marked a reunion between him and his A Beautiful Mind star. Cinderella Man opened to critical acclaim, but wasn't as successful at the box office as it was expected to be. The movie made just $108 million globally, against a reported budget of nearly $90 million. It's now sitting at a "certified fresh" 80% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics' consensus reads, "With grittiness and an evocative sense of time and place, Cinderella Man is a powerful underdog story. And Ron Howard and Russell Crowe prove to be a solid combination."

Timothée Chalamet Is the Front-Runner to Win an Academy Award

Cinderella Man was based on a true story and is set only a decade or so before Marty Supreme. Directed by Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme opened to excellent reviews, particularly for its period detail and Chalamet's central performance as a ping-pong player with a particularly ambitious streak. Chalamet is the front-runner to win an Academy Award, having come awfully close last year, when he was nominated for his central performance as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. Produced on a reported budget of $65 million, Marty Supreme is now sitting at a "certified fresh" 94% score on RT, where the consensus reads, "Serving up Timothée Chalamet at his most infectiously charismatic, Marty Supreme is a propulsive epic that realizes its sky-high aspirations even while it critiques its indelible hero's toxic ambition."

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