Following its record-shattering limited debut, Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme starring Timothée Chalamet expanded to 2,668 screens and delivered A24's largest opening weekend at $28.3 million total—including $27.1 million over the four-day holiday frame—landing at #8 on the box office chart amid strong young audience turnout.
Building on its blockbuster limited opening of $875,000 across six screens (the highest per-screen average of 2025), indie hit Marty Supreme smashed expectations again during the 2025 Christmas holiday frame. The wide expansion grossed $27.1 million over four days, securing the #8 spot behind tentpoles like Avatar: Fire and Ash and Zootopia 2, and marking one of the biggest Christmas Days ever for an R-rated film.
Certified Fresh at 95% on Rotten Tomatoes with stellar exit polls—drawing two-thirds of viewers under 35—the film continues A24's strong close to the year. Set in 1952, it follows Chalamet's Marty, a Lower East Side hustler chasing table tennis glory while working in his family's shoe store.
Chalamet's immersive commitment shone through: he wore custom +10 contact lenses behind -10 prescription glasses, rendering him effectively blind off-screen and creating a 'fishbowl' effect, as director Safdie recalled from a Hollywood panel. "I’ll do anything you ask me to do," Chalamet pledged. Prosthetics artist Michael Fontaine added realistic pockmarks, freckles, and scars that fooled co-star Gwyneth Paltrow (as Kay Stone). Chalamet trained rigorously with expert Diego Schaaf and champion Koto Kawaguchi (who plays Koto Endo), feeling 'huge pressure' to honor the table tennis community.
The ensemble features Fran Drescher as Marty's mother, Tyler, the Creator, Odessa A’zion, and Kevin O’Leary. This momentum caps an upbeat indie year, alongside limited releases like Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice ($313k over three days).
