The strangest, happiest indie success story of the year came to Los Angeles Thursday night, when a movie made for $15,000 had its L.A. premiere a week after opening in one theater in New York and grossing … just about $15,000.
“Breaking Upwards,” a terrific little romantic comedy about a pair of Manhattan twentysomethings who decide to take “off days” in their relationship, held its premiere and party at the Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax, just down the street from the Sunset 5, where the film opens on Friday.
Olivia Thirlby, who’s in the movie, was in attendance; so were Anne Hathaway, Josh Hartnett, Joshua Leonard (“Humpday”), Johnny Galecki (“The Big Bang Theory”) and Gillian Jacobs (“Community”), who aren’t.