Everything’s Coming Up Timmy

An immediate-post-Christmas birthday can be a bit hard: People are still out of town; our emotional capacity has tanked; we’re protecting our livers pre-NYE. But that’s not the case for Timothée Chalamet, who turned 30 on Saturday and has a movie blowing up the box office. 

Chalamet celebrated his own birthday on Instagram with very conflicting vibes: He posted a couple cute photos of himself as a child—playing soccer, hanging out with his dad—captioned “TIMMYTIM IS OFFICIALLY UNC.” In some ways, I suppose, this is the platonic ideal of Chalamet: sweet, and also annoying hypebeast. But in any case, there’s nothing more unc-coded than eagerly declaring yourself “unc.”

 

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Much like the birthday boy himself, his party was attended by a series of celebrities who are real types of guys: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tyler the Creator, and Nathan Fielder. 

Meanwhile, Marty Supreme (in which Timmy plays the titular character who, as far as I can tell, is: a shoe salesman, a ping-pong champion, and a con artist) made over $17 million this weekend, marking A24’s second-best release. Variety suggests the movie will continue to “remain a box office draw” due to “great word-of-mouth”—and the studio can at least count on my $16.50; after Uncut Gems, I will see anything Josh Safdie directs.

One marketing tool that other A24 films have not benefited from is the power of Kris Jenner. Chalamet and Kylie Jenner have been dating since roughly April 2023—though for someone as overexposed as her and as energetic as him, they’ve managed to keep things fairly quiet. So it was a big deal (insofar as these things matter, which they do not) that Kris posted not one but two Instagram stories promoting Marty Supreme. Both featured promotional windbreakers, and in one she was wearing the baggy top over an outfit that otherwise looks like black tie (and it kind of works, tbh). In another, she said “Greatest movie ever!!” which, to me, is actually an indictment of the film, but I imagine carries weight for at least some of her 51.6 million followers. If even 1 percent of them go to the movie, that’s another $8.3 million in ticket sales… plus snacks! And I support that, if only because it means Josh Safdie will get to make more weird movies. 

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• Harry Styles is back…I think? [YouTube]
• French style icon and mega racist Brigitte Bardot died at age 91. [France 24]
• …And then Nicola Peltz posted a Bardot quote about “the way people behave” that presumably doubled as a dig at Victoria and David Beckham. [Daily Mail]
• Nick Cannon did three different Christmas photoshoots with three different baby mamas and they’re all weirdly sweet?? [The Shade Room]
• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s 11th publicist has quit. Lol. [Page Six]
• The third Avatar is well on the way to grossing $1 billion and I still don’t know anyone who’s seen it. [EW]

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