‘The Invite’ Settles Into Streaming This Week After $42.9 Million Box Office Run

Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton successful "The Invite."

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The Invite, head Olivia Wilde’s acclaimed drama play successful which she stars alongside Seth Rogen, Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz, arrives connected integer streaming this week.

The Invite opened successful constricted merchandise connected June 26 and expanded to theaters nationwide connected July 10. Rogen and Wilde play Jill and Angela, who are going done bumps successful their marriage. However, erstwhile the induce mates surviving upstairs from them — Hawk (Norton) and Piña (Cruz) — to dinner, the nighttime takes a alien move pinch enigmatic mates than Joe and Angela expected.

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Based connected Cesc Gay’s 2020 Spanish movie The People Upstairs, the screenplay for The Invite was adapted by actor-filmmakers Will McCormack and Rashida Jones.

The Invite had a coagulated tally successful theaters, earning astir $24.3 cardinal domestically and $18.6 cardinal internationally for a worldwide container agency tally of $42.9 million. According to the IMDb, The Invite had an estimated accumulation fund of $12 cardinal earlier trading costs.

The Invite also won critics and audiences complete connected Rotten Tomatoes, earning a 97% “fresh” critics’ people based connected 267 reviews and an 89% “fresh” Popcornmeter people based connected 1,000-plus verified personification ratings.

The RT Critics Consensus for the movie reads, “Perversely funny while giving its quartet of good actors immoderate of their champion worldly yet, The Invite is simply a blase farce that reaffirms Olivia Wilde arsenic 1 of the astir breathtaking filmmakers moving today.”

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The reception of The Invite is uncertainty breathtaking to Wilde, who told the crowd astatine a screening of the movie astatine the 79th Locarno Film Festival connected Saturday (via The Hollywood Reporter) that she had to conflict to get the movie released successful theaters alternatively of having it premiere connected a streaming platform.

“They bribe you to not return theatrical,” Wilde told the show crowd. “We person to conflict for it to person a tally successful theaters.”

However, Wilde said, the connection to spell the streaming way alternatively of theatrical is of small use to the filmmaker.

“It’s a bribe. They salary you more,” Wilde told the Locarno crowd (via THR). “Not the filmmaker, no; the financiers will get a batch much money to spell to streaming, and you tin return that bribe and springiness that up if that’s wherever your priorities lie. But we were really fortunate that our financier gave maine the opportunity to make this decision, which is thing I don’t return lightly. She could person very easy said no.”

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‘The Invite’ Arrives On PVOD On Tuesday

The Invite will beryllium released connected integer streaming via premium video connected request connected Tuesday, Aug. 11, a caller listing on Prime Video confirms.

The Invite will beryllium disposable to acquisition connected PVOD for $24.99 connected specified integer platforms arsenic Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango astatine Home and YouTube Movies & TV. Since integer rentals are mostly $5 little to rent than to purchase, The Invite should beryllium disposable to rent for 48 hours for $19.99.

Rated R, The Invite, directed by and starring Olivia Wilde, arsenic good arsenic Seth Rogen, Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz, is still playing successful 342 theaters nationwide.