A24's 'Marcel the Shell With Shoes On' opened on six screens this weekend and brought in $169K.
The cutest little internet sensation moved to the big screen this weekend and earned a total of $170K this weekend. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On made its big screen debut on June 24, showing in only cinemas in New York and California and producing the largest t of the weekend with $28,267.
Audiences first encountered the lonesome shell in 2010, when comedian Jenny Slate dreamed up the iconic character out of boredom and created a short film centered on the eponymous shell. The feature film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is drawn from that original short film, among others that followed on YouTube, and is also a stop-motion film.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY The film is a mock-documentary of the viral little mollusk that originally went viral on YouTube in 2010. Within the next few weeks, Slate’s and Fleisher-Camp’s creation will move into five more cities – Chicago, Washington, D.C, Austin, San Francisco, and Boston – next weekend. By July 8, the little shell will be in the biggest ten markets in the country to start its rollout through the Summer months.
Slate reprises her role as the voice of the tiny shell in the newly released full-feature film, with partner Fleisher-Camp directing. The entertainment company A24 distributes the animation. Producers of the shell-centric film include Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey, Terry Leonard, Fleisher-Camp, and Slate, with executive producers Philipp Engelhorn, William Byerley, Nion McEvoy, George Rush, and Michael Raisler.
In Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, a well-liked character makes his theatrical debut, and the little guy seems to be doing well on the big screen. Check out the trailer for the full-length animation below and find him in a theater near you when he moves into more cinemas throughout the Summer.