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Quirky Sci-Fi ‘Everything Everywhere’ Is Defying Movie Theater Stereotypes
- Indie film features middle-aged mom taking on dark forces
- Distributor A24 expanding film to 2,000 theaters this weekend
Mark Anastasio, who books movies for the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts, knew something was up when fans filled the seats for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Demand for tickets to the off-beat, sci-fi picture from A24 studios was so high that he had to add showings at his four-screen theater, which had sat mostly empty for a year and a half during the pandemic. It was just like “The Batman” a few weeks earlier.