Everything Everywhere All At Once items bring in more than $555K during auction for charity

Moviegoers and philanthropists jumped at the chance to get their hands on the original props, costumes and sets from the hit film, Everything everywhere at once.

Film distribution and entertainment company A24 spearheaded a week-long auction, which ran from February 23 to March 2, in the hope that it could donate 100% of the proceeds to charities in need.

After tallying up the numbers, the auction ended up raising a whopping $555,725 for three different charities that were handpicked by movie writer-director duo, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (known as Daniels).

The organizations that are the recipients of the money generated are the Asian Mental Health Project, the Transgender Law Center and the Laundry Workers Center, according to npr.

The movie that bends the genre tells the story of a Chinese-American immigrant family, headed by middle-aged matriarch Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), simultaneously battling a tax audit of her struggling laundromat and a powerful being intent on destroying the multiverse.

In all, there were 43 items sold during the auction that included an anthropomorphic rock with bug eyes that sold for $13,200 and a pair of hands with hot dog-shaped fingers. that Michelle Yeoh’s character Evelyn Quan Wang endures in the film was $55,000, as reported by A24 auctions.

A leather fanny pack worn by Ke Huy Quan’s character Waymond raised $48,000, while an “auditor of the month” trophy sold for $60,000.

An Alfaverse headset sold for $11,000, Evelyn and Joy’s piñatas fetched another $7,000, and another fan shelled out $15,000 for Evelyn’s punk cardigan.

Simple accessories like Waymond’s lipstick and a Half & Half cardboard brought in $5,000, while someone else paid $7,050 for the Wang family photos.

A stuffed raccoon, called Raccacoonie (a play on the name of Walt Disney Co.’s Ratatouille), generated the highest bid of $90,000.

The cheapest items sold during the auction were a copy of the fictional ‘Feets’ magazine that sold for $2,500 and a donut-themed umbrella that sold for $2,650.

On the heels of the film’s critical and commercial success, it doesn’t seem like a stretch that some fans were willing to spend thousands of dollars on souvenirs.

With worldwide box office receipts now of $107.5 million against a budget of $14.3-25 million, Everything Everywhere All At Once is now the highest-grossing film to date for the New York-based independent studio. , A24.

The absurdist comedy-drama has received a host of awards and accolades, including 11 nominations for the upcoming 95th Academy Awards that will air on March 12. Among the nominations: the coveted Best Picture and Best Director, as well as Best Actress for Michelle. Yeoh, Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan and Best Supporting Actress for Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu.

It has already won two Golden Globes: Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Yeoh) and Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture (Quan), out of six nominations.

It also garnered four Screen Actors Guild Awards wins, for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (Yeoh), Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role ( Quan) and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Curtis).

And most recently, it won seven more trophies during Saturday’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Film, Best Director (Kwan and Scheinert) and Best Lead Performance (Yeoh).

The film made its world premiere at the South By Southwest festival on March 11, 2022, and was finally released nationwide in the US on April 8.

But, in the wake of the Oscar nominations, Everything Everywhere All At Once was re-released on 1,400 screens in US theaters at the end of January, so box office receipts could go up significantly, especially if it wins a lot of money. those golden statues