‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’: Michelle Yeoh Carries A Bold & Boundless Multiverse Spectacle [SXSW]

A24 may have found the filmmakers to jump-start the art-house box office and, in something of a surprise, it’s the visionary directing duo of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheiert, aka The Daniels. This past weekend, their second cinematic opus, “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” opened in limited release to an impressive $509,659 or $50,965 in just 10 theaters.

A24 reported an estimated total of $509,659 for an average of just under $51,000 for the weekend. By comparison, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” had a per screen average of just under $60,000 thanks to its historic $260 million opening in wide release in December. Meanwhile, A24 opted to take the traditional path with a platform launch for “Everything Everywhere” after the film won overwhelming acclaim from its premiere at SXSW in Austin.

Everything Everywhere All At Once grossed over half a million dollars on 10 screens in NYC, LA and San Francisco for a hefty $50,965 per-screen-average — a number rarely seen since the pre-Covid old days of theatrical releases and the biggest of the year so far. The mind-melding Sandra Yeogh-starrer directed by the Daniels (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) played to sold out crowds including Imax engagements.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorIt’s been two decades since Ke Huy Quan has been on the big screen.He’s known to most audiences as a child actor playing Data in “The Goonies” and Short Round in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”; his last widely released film in the U.S. was 1992’s “Encino Man.” He stepped away from acting after 2002 because he felt there weren’t many opportunities for Asian performers.But with the “phenomenal success” of “Crazy Rich Asians” in 2018, “I had serious FOMO,” Quan says.

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In The Daniels’ visionary sophomore feature, “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” Michelle Yeoh plays Evelyn Wang, a woman of a certain age struggling with keeping her laundromat business afloat. But Evelyn is also a pop superstar, a movie star, a hibachi chef, a Kung Fu master, and much more.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is your standard multiverse martial arts movie about filing your taxes and midlife regret in which googly eyes, everything bagels and fanny packs play vital supporting roles and portals to parallel existences are opened not with a spell but with butt plugs and paper cuts.The movie, opening in theaters Friday, is by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the filmmaking duo known as the “the Daniels,” whose first film, the buddy movie “Swiss Army Man,” co-starred Daniel Radcliffe as a very flatulent corpse.“Everything Everywhere All at Once," though, is more ambitious. It's possible that the distance has never before been so great between a movie's mundane storyline — in this case, a Chinese immigrant laundromat owner trying to file her taxes — and what extreme shape it takes.

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Quentin Tarantino inspired her to keep working in Hollywood, ahead of her starring role in new A24 film Everything Everywhere All At Once.Yeoh, who recently appeared in Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings and Crazy Rich Asians, plays Evelyn, a mother thrown into a sci-fi action-adventure after she learns she’s able to access the memory and skills of alternate versions of herself throughout the multiverse.The actress almost broke her back during an on-set injury while filming 1996’s The Stunt Woman, however, leading the former ballerina to question her career path.“‘You like to work, but this is insane,’” Yeoh recalled friends telling her at the time, per The Hollywood Reporter. “‘We feel so bad, but only you can help yourself.

Deadline’s studio at the 2022 edition of the SXSW Festival kicked off Day 1 by hosting fest-goers such as Elle Fanning of The Girl From Plainville, Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis of Everything Everywhere All At Once, and many more. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery.

Anyone frozen to the bone today in Austin, TX from the 39-degree, piercing wind weather could find all the heat inside the Paramount Theatre as A24’s Daniels’ AGBO movie Everything Everywhere All at Once brought moviegoing roaring back to the first SXSW in three years.

Michelle Yeoh hits the red carpet premiere of her new movie, Everything Everywhere All At Once, during the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals held at The Paramount Theatre on Friday night (March 11) in Austin, Texas.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe SXSW Film Festival delivered a doozy of an opening night presentation with Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” on Friday in Austin — offering up a buffet of images for viral memes.Fleshy hot dogs in place of human fingers, a talking raccoon voiced by Oscar winner Randy Newman, butt plugs that serve as portals to other dimensions, a martial arts showdown between Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis, and a universe-shattering bagel all populate the A24 release. While Twitter will have its day with the inventive and well-crafted insanity, the filmmakers and cast also produced a rowdy crowdpleaser with themes of acceptance, optimism, and love literally conquering all.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWay back in 1998, before Marvel made metaverses a household concept, Gwyneth Paltrow starred in a lovely parallel-realities drama called “Sliding Doors,” in which a woman’s life split along two paths, depending on whether or not her character caught a specific train. At the time, juggling these competing fates was considered to be so demanding that the filmmakers obliged one of the two Gwyneths to get a haircut, so audiences could tell them apart.Nearly a quarter-century later, our collective cine-literacy has gotten so sophisticated that “Sliding Doors” seems no more challenging than a simple game of tic-tac-toe.

Where to begin with Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan (The Daniels) new film . Having its world premiere at SXSW 2022, it certainly lives up to its name. It’s an ADHD-fueled acid trip that takes up every bit of space during its 2:30 minute runtime. The Daniels create a vast world around the concept of love, family, tradition and how sometimes you have to go to the ends of the universe to appreciate what you have at home.