"Marty Supreme," starring Timothée Chalamet in a story loosely based on real-life table tennis champion Marty Reisman, is new in theaters. How soon before the film debuts on streaming?

After a viral marketing campaign, Timothée Chalamet's Marty Supreme is scoring huge points at the box office in a record-breaking debut for A24.

Peace and love to Marty Supreme’s newest fan, Ringo. Kendall Jenner, Chalamet’s girlfriend’s sister, was one of the first to sport the jacket at an 818 event.

Ahead of its wide release on Christmas Day, A24's "Marty Supreme" opened on six screens in New York and Los Angeles and scored a spectacular platform launch, earning the best per-theater average of the year with $875,

In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the film's ping-pong consultant, Diego Schaaf, says he hopes the actor's wild press run "gives the sport the breakthrough it’s deserved."

The director Josh Safdie had a personal connection to 1950s players, but he also enlisted professionals to choreograph the action and employed a visual trick.

The bar for being “shocking” in movies is somewhere in the stratosphere at this point. So it says a lot that there’s a scene in Timothée Chalamet‘s new movie, Marty Supreme, that you won’t soon stop thinking about.

Timothée Chalamet stars as a table tennis player named Marty Mauser in Josh Safdie's "Marty Supreme," which is inspired by the life of real-life prodigy Marty Reisman.

The post What “Marty Supreme” loses in its quest to be the best appeared first on Salon.com. One Friday morning last November, A24 and Timothée Chalamet cross-posted an 18-minute-long video to their respective social media platforms. The clip, cleverly titled