Marlton Movie - The Motion Picture

Marlton Movie - The Motion Picture is a 2019 American animated/live-action satirical comedy film based on the Kingson animated series Marlton. Directed by series creator Ralf Hat, and written by him and series co-writer Dab Mcgee, the film features the regular cast of Bruh Ligma, Pamela Hayden, Aaron Paul, Vincent Martella, and Ralf Hat. In the film, aspiring filmmaker Steven Nguyen resolves to create his own cinematic masterpiece with his group of friends; whilst unbeknownst to them, their film soon proves to be more real than any of them anticipated. The film satirizes the film industry, the modern cinematic climate as well as film culture as a whole - whilst staying true to the original series' brand of humor and satire. The film was released on July 26, 2019, grossed $75 million worldwide on a $20 million budget and received positive reviews from critics. A sequel, entitled Marlton Movie Sequel (The Sequel), is in development and scheduled for a 2022 release.

Synopsis
Unimpressed by modern cinema, aspiring director Steven Nguyen and his friends take it upon themselves to make their own cinematic masterpiece, which soon proves to have reality-warping & world-ending consequences that will unfold the very fabric of Marlton as they know it.

Cast

 * Bruh Ligma as Steven Nguyen, an aspiring filmmaker and film fanboy who has sex
 * Pamela Hayden as Chester Jefferson, a highly pretentious child prodigy and Whitey Rasheed-Whitman, an insecure Indian foreign kid.
 * Aaron Paul as Chadley, a serious JROTC kid and the best friend/henchman of Jefferson.
 * Vincent Martella as Eli
 * Ralf Hat as Mike

Box office
In the United States and Canada, Marlton Movie - The Motion Picture was released alongside Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and was initially projected to gross $10-12 million from 3,138 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $6.7 million on opening day, including $1.5 million from Thursday night previews, opening in third place, and went on to debut to $15.9 million, finishing third behind Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and The Lion King. The film grossed $8 million in its second weekend, dropping 49% and finishing in fourth place. It went on to gross $48.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $27.3 million in other territories for a worldwide gross of $75.5 million against a production budget of $20 million.

Critical reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 91%, based on 131 reviews, and an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Marlton Movie - The Motion Picture elevates the metafictional mayhem of its television counterpart to new comedic heights, whilst rolling the footage with surprisingly insightful potshots at modern Hollywood." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.