Pearl Movie Details:
Also known as | Pearl: An X-traordinary Origin Story |
Based on | Characters by Ti West |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Horror, Thriller, Drama |
Release dates | September 3, 2022 (Venice) September 16, 2022 (United States) |
Running time | 1hr 42min |
Age rating | R |
Starring | Mia Goth David Corenswet Tandi Wright Matthew Sunderland |
Directed by | Ti West |
Written by | Ti West Mia Goth |
Produced by | Jacob Jaffke Ti West Kevin Turen Harrison Kreiss |
Cinematography by | Eliot Rockett |
Edited by | Ti West |
Music by | Tyler Bates Tim Williams |
Production Companies | Little Lamb Mad Solar Productions |
Distributor | A24 (United States) Universal Pictures (international) |
Pearl Movie Cast & Characters:
- Mia Goth as Pearl
- David Corenswet as the projectionist
- Tandi Wright as Ruth, Pearl’s mother
- Matthew Sunderland as Pearl’s father
- Emma Jenkins-Purro as Mitsy, Howard’s sister
- Alistair Sewell as Howard, Pearl’s husband
- Amelia Reid as Margaret
- Gabe McDonnell as Woman
Storyline:
In 1918, during the influenza pandemic, Pearl is a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation, and lovelessness of life on her parents’ farm.
Pearl Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
Budget | $1 million |
Opening Day | 1,300000 |
Domestic Collection | $9,423,445 |
International Collection | $716,648 |
Worldwide Collection | $10,140,093 |
About Pearl Movie:
Pearl is a prequel to X (2022) and the second installment in the X film series, it serves as an origin story for the title villain, whose fervent aspiration to become a movie star led her to committing violent acts on her family’s Texas homestead in 1918.
Ti West and Mia Goth collaborated on the script via FaceTime during a mandatory 2-week quarantine (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) in New Zealand prior to filming X (2022). They had only hoped A24 would agree to make the film. Fortunately, the project was green-lit before filming began on X.
Principal photography was revealed to have begun in secret immediately following the completed photography on X. Filming started in New Zealand, took place back-to-back with the first movie, and used the same sets that were built for X.
Pearl had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2022, and was released in theaters in the United States on September 16, 2022, by A24.
The film grossed over $10.1 million and received generally positive reviews from critics, with Goth’s performance receiving wide praise.
In the United States and Canada, Pearl was released alongside The Woman King and See How They Run, and was projected to gross around $4 million from 2,900 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $1.3 million on its first day and went on to debut to $3.1 million, finishing third at the box office. It made $1.92 million in its second weekend, finishing fifth at the box office.
The film was released on VOD on October 25, 2022, and was released on Blu-ray and DVD on November 15, 2022.
A direct sequel to X, titled MaXXXine, was released on July 5, 2024.