This past Wednesday night’s one-night-only Director’s Cut screenings of Lars von Trier‘s highly controversial The House That Jack Built may have landed IFC Films in hot water with the MPAA, but how did the film perform on the 140 screens it was released on?
Via The Wrap this morning, The House That Jack Built made $172,131 on just 140 screens Wednesday night; as the site notes, “it has already made more than half the U.S. total of the director’s previous film, Nymphomaniac.”
Next, the “R” rated version will arrive in theaters and on VOD on December 14.
In the film, Matt Dillon stars as a serial killer who views each of his murders as a work of art. Uma Thurman (Kill Bill), Bruno Ganz (Downfall), and Riley Keough (Mad Max: Fury Road) also star with South Korean actor, Yu Ji-tae, best known to us genre fans as the antagonist in Park Chan-wook’s 2003 hardboiled thriller Oldboy.
Rafael reviewed the film out of Sitges and explained that, “The nihilism of Lars von Trier’s darkly comedic The House That Jack Built rivals American Psycho.”
