{"id":28766,"date":"2020-08-16T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T20:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=28766"},"modified":"2020-08-21T17:50:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T00:50:41","slug":"the-tax-collector-tops-trolls-world-tour-on-deg-most-watched-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=28766","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Tax Collector&#8221; Tops &#8220;Trolls World Tour&#8221; on DEG Most-Watched List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>The Tax Collector<\/strong><\/em> has topped <em><strong>Trolls World Tour<\/strong><\/em> to become the most-watched at-home film of the week, according to the <strong>Digital Entertainment Group&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.degonline.org\/portfolio_page\/watched-at-home-top-20\/\">DEG Watched at Home Top 20<\/a>. The <strong>RLJ Entertainment<\/strong> picture has also proven popular with audiences in theaters, with the film grossing $634,145 in its first 10 days. A hit at home and at the box office, <strong>David Ayer&#8217;s<\/strong> gangster flick has become the third film, after the aforementioned <em>Trolls World Tour<\/em> as well as IFC&#8217;s <em><strong>The Rental<\/strong><\/em>, to top both the box office and VOD sales in its opening weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DEG&#8217;s metric includes U.S. digital sales, digital rentals (video on-demand), DVD, and Blu-Ray. <em>Trolls World Tour<\/em> is currently ranked second on the list, followed by the first season of Taylor Sheridan and John Linson&#8217;s <em>Yellowstone<\/em>. Ayer, the film&#8217;s director, recently tweeted out a screencap of a <em>Deadline<\/em> article chronicling the film&#8217;s rise to the top of the box office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-x\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tax Collector <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/02eOrZe0jm\">pic.twitter.com\/02eOrZe0jm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DavidAyerMovies\/status\/1295077699350740992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ayer has also been very vocal on Twitter about the film&#8217;s commercial accessibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-x\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This movie was never intended to be a mass commercial film. It\u2019s just some low down LA hood shit and like life does not go the way you want it to go. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cWxgH2mKxK\">https:\/\/t.co\/cWxgH2mKxK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DavidAyerMovies\/status\/1294720204140814336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a project never intended to be a &#8220;mass commercial film&#8221; as Ayer puts it, <em>The Tax Collector<\/em> has been doing relatively well for itself. It remains to be seen if the film will make any money for its studio against its $30 million budget. And that&#8217;s without taking into account the film&#8217;s impressive marketing campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Tax Collector<\/em> was released on August 7th, 2020 on VOD and in theaters in a limited capacity after a debut at the Vineland Drive-In theater in Industry, California. The film stars <strong>Bobby Soto<\/strong> as David Ceuvas, the titular &#8220;tax collector&#8221;, an enforcer to a powerful Los Angeles crime lord named Wizard (<strong>Jimmy Smits<\/strong>). The film also stars <strong>Shia LaBeouf<\/strong> as Creeper, an unhinged enforcer prone to extreme acts of violence and David&#8217;s right hand man. 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