New York-based filmmaker shoots horror at Zoom for $ 0: film topped American film distribution

What doesn’t happen during a pandemic - the low-budget film "Unsubscribe" (American Unsubscribe) directed by American director Christian Nilsson led the American film distribution after it was shown in an empty cinema. Writes about this Meduza.

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Christian Nilsson said on Facebook that the idea of ​​becoming a film distribution leader came to him during a conversation with Eric Tabach, an actor and blogger who used to live in Moscow and now lives in Philadelphia. They joked that any film that appears in theaters during a pandemic will lead the rental. Nilsson and Tabach decided to take advantage of this loophole and made a plan: they decided to rent a movie theater to keep every dollar from selling tickets, and return the money spent.

Nilsson wrote the script for a horror movie in a day, and within a week he was shot in the Zoom video call program. In the story, five youtumers join a video call, after which they begin to pursue a mysterious Internet troll. The budget of the film, according to the director, was zero dollars.

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When the film was ready, Nilsson and Tabach shot a movie theater in the town of Westampton Beach in New York State, bought every spectator seat in it, and then showed Unsubscribe in an empty audience on June 10th.

This trick allowed the filmmakers to take first place at the box office in the United States - such a message appeared on the website of The Numbers. It says that “Unsubscribe” led the box office with fees of $ 25. After that, information about the film’s fees appeared on the respected box office boxer Mojo.

For those who did not have time to watch a movie in cinemas, Christian Nilsson опубликовал him on vimeo.

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