Luckiest Man in America release set (PYL movie)

[Matt Ottinger]

This is the first movie that I have wanted to go to the theatre to see since Lincoln back in January 2013.

In general, Lincoln in a theatre is not a good image.

[tyshaun1]

I didn't expect to see a big turnout for this.  For a while it looked like my wife and I would be the only two as they arrived just a couple minutes before the show started.

FTR, my viewing on Friday afternoon had about 6 or 7 others in the theater. Got a little kick when Walton Goggins first appeared and a lady remarked, "Oh, they got him to play Peter!". Not surprised at the sparse turnouts when IFC did virtually no promotion of the film, other than a Tik Tok and YouTube trailer.

[aaron sica]

FTR, my viewing on Friday afternoon had about 6 or 7 others in the theater. Got a little kick when Walton Goggins first appeared and a lady remarked, "Oh, they got him to play Peter!". Not surprised at the sparse turnouts when IFC did virtually no promotion of the film, other than a Tik Tok and YouTube trailer.

That was about the turnout when I saw it too - Christian, myself, two other friends, and two other random people in the theater.

[parliboy]

My Sunday afternoon viewing experience was this:

Me and my wife, dead center in the middle of the theatre, completely alone.  We were the only souls there.

I started typing more, the realized it was better to put it in the spoiler-laded thread in summaries, so I'm going to head over there.

[BrandonFG]

The numbers are in…TLMiA ranked 15th at the box office with $282,000 across 659 theaters. Still haven’t been able to find anything about the budget but given it’s IFC I imagine it’s under $5M.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W14/?ref_=bo_hm_rw

[Eric Paddon]

I'm really not inclined to see it.   I have watched the original episodes so many times and to me the real excitement of the actual moment is something no movie can ever recreate without coming off as phony.

[Bob Zager]

Here in Detroit, our then CBS-TV affiliate, WJBK-TV (Ch. 2), had opted not to carry "$25,000 Pyramid," nor "Child's Play," (and later "PYL") from Sept. 1982 until Sept. 1984... Around mid-September, 1984; WJBK-TV started the post-CBS Morning News hour with "All-New LMAD," followed by "Anything for Money."  That was followed by network-fed "Pyramid," and "PYL."

Tomarken welcomed WJBK nationwide, and even brought up the then red-hot Detroit Tigers, who won the WS the following month!

I just found on youtube, the first episode to regularly air in Detroit.

I recalled that Peter Tomarken welcomed WJBK, and mentioned the Tigers, but not until watching this episode today, did I hear that EP Bill Carruthers was born in Detroit, and had worked locally earlier in his career!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Carruthers

[ChrisLambert!]

According to the When To Stream website, this is expected to hit VOD on May 6.

https://www.whentostream.com/news/the-luckiest-man-in-america-digital-streaming-release-date-revealed

[jw2001]

Thank you! There are several theaters in my area, but none of them are playing it. I'm not up for driving 45 to 60 minutes, so I'll watch it when it hits streaming.

[snowpeck]

Walton Goggins will be hosting the May 10th episode of SNL. I'm sure it's mainly due to his role on "The White Lotus," but this role probably didn't hurt.

[Matt Ottinger]

Walton Goggins will be hosting the May 10th episode of SNL. I'm sure it's mainly due to his role on "The White Lotus," but this role probably didn't hurt.

Counterpoint (and I meant to bring this up when it happened two or three weeks ago):  NPR did a long, gushing piece about Goggins a few weeks ago, focusing on how he was having a moment.  In other words the whole point of the piece was to mention all the different things Goggins was in recently, and they had plenty of time to tell the story.  They did not mention this movie once.

[tyshaun1]

Walton Goggins will be hosting the May 10th episode of SNL. I'm sure it's mainly due to his role on "The White Lotus," but this role probably didn't hurt.

Counterpoint (and I meant to bring this up when it happened two or three weeks ago):  NPR did a long, gushing piece about Goggins a few weeks ago, focusing on how he was having a moment.  In other words the whole point of the piece was to mention all the different things Goggins was in recently, and they had plenty of time to tell the story.  They did not mention this movie once.

It's kind of sad that this very interesting story was mostly wasted on this movie. Oh well.