{"id":10728,"date":"2020-05-28T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10728"},"modified":"2020-06-20T16:20:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T23:20:03","slug":"the-wretched-the-drive-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/28\/the-wretched-the-drive-in\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WRETCHED @ the Drive-in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How low-budget horror movie\u00a0The Wretched<\/em> became America’s No. 1 film<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The supernatural shocker expanded to 45 drive-ins this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Clark Collis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the start of the year, the biggest movies set to be released in May looked like\u00a0Fast & Furious 9<\/em>,\u00a0Spiral: From the Book of Saw<\/em>,\u00a0Black Widow<\/em>,\u00a0Scoob<\/em>, and\u00a0Artemis Fowl<\/em>. Instead, the coronavirus outbreak prompted studios to either\u00a0postpone the movies’ premieres<\/a>\u00a0or announce that they would debut on a streaming service. The most successful new film, according to\u00a0Box Office Mojo<\/a>, has been a supernatural indie-horror movie called\u00a0The Wretched<\/em>, which has dominated the website’s daily chart since it was released on May 1. As of Thursday,\u00a0The Wretched<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 \u2014 about a teenager who discovers that a malevolent witch is living next door to his father \u2014 had been the No. 1 film in America for\u00a0three weeks<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It\u2019s actually been a complete shock and kind of insane,” says the Detroit-raised Brett Pierce, who directed the film with his brother Drew. “We were a little movie from Michigan. We always aimed for the moon, but with an independent film you think, Yeah, we\u2019ll come out in a few theaters, and we\u2019ll play for like a week, and maybe ten people will see it. Most people are going to see it when we land on a streaming service at some point. Each week it just kept on getting bigger, it was one of those things where you just don\u2019t believe it as it\u2019s happening. We\u2019re going to be a\u00a0Jeopardy<\/em>\u00a0question one day, because we\u2019re going to be the lowest-grossing most successful film.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Entertainment Weekly How low-budget horror movie\u00a0The Wretched became America’s No. 1 film The supernatural shocker expanded to 45 drive-ins this weekend. By\u00a0Clark Collis At the start of the year, the biggest movies set to be released in May looked like\u00a0Fast & Furious 9,\u00a0Spiral: From the Book of Saw,\u00a0Black Widow,\u00a0Scoob, and\u00a0Artemis Fowl. Instead, the coronavirus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}