When we talk about box office records, it is usually in reference to large collection figures obtained by a certain film, but in 2020 a film was released that, even despite being a box office leader in its week, what he did was obtain the record of being with the lowest figure in history. The movie was Endurancea biopic written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz about the life of Marcel Marceau and is starring Jesse Eisenberg.
According to the website dedicated to box office data The Numbers, Endurance Lead the list of films that were No. 1 at the national box office with lower collection. In the case of the one starring Eisenberg, He managed to be the most watched film in the US with just $ 2,500 in his first weekend.
That the film was released on March 27, 2020 explains everything: Endurance He arrived at the screens coinciding with the beginning of the confinements for the COVID-19 in the United States and, although most studies delayed his films, the distributor wanted to move on with the premiere.
As confirmed ScreenRanttraditional cinemas were also closed at that time, but Some independent autocines were still open, and it was in one of them in which it was projected Endurancewhose collection of 2,490 in a weekend occurred with its reproduction in A single screen.
Finally, the world’s total collection of Endurance It would be $ 460,000, far from matching production costs, but could recover part of their losses thanks to its subsequent launch in physical format.
During World War II and the occupation of France by the German Reich, the Orthodox Jew Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg), whose real name is Marcel Mangel and who would later become worldwide famous as a mime, is involved in the French resistance under the influence of his cousin Georges Loinger (Géza Röhring) and his brother Simon (Félix Moati). Marceau uses his minimum formation to help orphans whose parents were victims of the Holocaust to escape and thus save them from racial laws and Nazi concentration camps. But to achieve this, he must go to the underground with the activist Emma (Clémence Poesy) and living in the extreme danger while the local chief of the Gestapo, Klaus Barbie (Matthias Schweighöfer), does everything possible to dismantle the group.
