In the wake of its historic Oscars win for best picture and best director, Parasite will dramatically expand its theater count in the U.S. this weekend to as many as 2,000 locations
is the first foreign-language movie ever to win the Oscar for best picture. It won three other top awards Sunday night; best director, best original screenplay and best international feature.is that the film's many mysteries and complexities make it required viewing not only in the movie theater, but on home video where audiences can take the time to study the nuances and puzzling dynamics that make the story so intriguing and irresistible," says Paul Dergarabedian of Comscore.
The pic — about a poverty-stricken family who hustle a wealthy couple with unintended consequences — has defied all expectations since first debuting in New York and Los Angeles over the Oct. 11-13 weekend. And between the time of Oscar nominations and Sunday's ceremony, it added more than $10 million in domestic grosses.finally expanded nationwide late last month in advance of the Academy Awards, almost 60 percent of ticket buyers over the Jan.
Overseas, the genre-bending comedy-thriller has grossed roughly $130 million to date, including a huge $71 million in South Korea, for a global total north of $165 million. Over the Jan. 7-9 weekend,
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