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rthouse streamer and distributor Mubi has not traditionally revealed numbers for its movies.However, Aftersun, the BAFTA winner and Oscar hopeful, has become the company’s most streamed release globally.The Paul Mescal starrer has now far surpassed Mubi’s previous best-performers including Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, The Worst Person In The World, Drive My Car, Decision To Leave, Shiva Baby and Titane, some of which were released during the pandemic, a boom time for streamer engagement.
The film started streaming in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Latin America and a handful of other markets on January 6, 2023, and has also become the top-viewed film all time in these individual territories. It will join the platform in Germany, Austria and Spain in March, and later in France.
In the UK, the film is now the highest-grossing British indie debut since Submarine in 2011, and the highest-grossing British female debut since Universal’s musical Mamma Mia in 2008.
Widest point of release in the UK was 315 cinemas.
Mubi distributed the film through its in-house distribution teams in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Latin America, then in Spain (with Elastica), France (with Condor), Austria (with Stadtkino Filmverleih), Brazil (O2Play), Central America (Pacific Grey), Argentina & Uruguay (Zeta Films), and Benelux (with September Films) for a total international box office for Mubi’s territories a little north of $3M.
The father-daughter coming-of-age drama scored 7 BIFA wins and is currently nominated for four BAFTAs and a Best Actor Oscar for Paul Mescal.
A24 has the movie in the U.S. where it has made $1.5 million, which is impressive considering it has never played in more than 100 theaters at once.
Mescal stars with breakout Frankie Corio in the acclaimed low-budget film in which a young girl reflects on the rare time spent with her loving and idealistic father. Pastel and Unified Theory produced.
Mescal received his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for this film.
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About Mubi
The company was founded by Efe Cakarel in 2007 and has high-profile auteur subscribers (Paul Thomas Anderson), and backing from industry and business leaders from companies such as Working Title, Goldman Sachs and Apple.
