Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for Hot Summer Nights (2018) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Timothée Chalamet, Maika Monroe, Alex Roe, Maia Mitchell, Thomas Jane, Emory Cohen DIRECTOR: Elijah Bynum CINEMATOGRAPHY: Javier Julia MUSIC: Will Bates PRODUCTION: Imperative Entertainment

Box Office Performance

Hot Summer Nights earned $246,133 in worldwide box office revenue.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Production

On March 26, 2015, it was announced that Elijah Bynum would make his directorial debut with his own 2013 Black List script, Hot Summer Nights, set in 1991 Cape Cod. Imperative Entertainment would finance and produce the film with its Bradley Thomas and Dan Friedkin. Later, Maia Mitchell, Emory Cohen and Thomas Jane were also added to the cast. Filming began in August 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia, subbing in as Cape Cod.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

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CRITICAL RECEPTION

Michael Roffman, writing for Consequence of Sound, praised the film, calling it "A brazen anti-coming-of-age thriller that oozes with all the right confidence, chutzpah, and passion." Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine gave the film 2.5 out of 5, and wrote, "The result is chaotic, but never lacking in energy – and the cast is up for anything."

IndieWire critic David Ehrlich criticized the script as "empty", and referred to the film as "A sweaty pastiche that shares its protagonist's desire to be all things to all people, only to wind up losing any sense of itself along the way." Emily Yoshida of Vulture was critical of the reliance on nostalgia and muddled storytelling, and wrote, "As it cliff dives, unprompted, into reheated cocaine-nightmare territory done better by any number of 1990s '70s nostalgia films before it, it not only ceases to be fun, but stops pretending it has any vision for where its lead characters should go."