The Outfit Trivia | 30 facts about the movie

«The Outfit» is a 2022 American crime drama film directed by Graham Moore in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Moore and Johnathan McClain.

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1. The Outfit is a 2022 American crime drama film.
2. It was directed by Graham Moore.
3. «The Outfit» is his directorial debut.
4. The screenplay is written by Moore and Johnathan McClain.
5. The film stars an ensemble cast including Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O’Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Simon Russell Beale.
6. The plot centers around an English tailor, or, as he prefers to be called, a “cutter”, (Rylance) in Chicago whose primary customers are a family of vicious gangsters.
7. The film had its world premiere at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2022.
8. The film was released in the United States on March 18, 2022, by Focus Features.
9. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.
10. In January 2021, it was announced that Graham Moore was set to make his directorial debut on the film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Johnathan McClain, with FilmNation Entertainment set to produce the film.
11. In February 2021, Focus Features pre-bought the rights to distribute the film with Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Dylan O’Brien, and Johnny Flynn attached to star.
12. Simon Russell Beale and Nikki Amuka-Bird were added to the cast in April 2021
13. Principal photography began on March 5, 2021 in London, England, with cinematographer Dick Pope.
14. Filming wrapped in early April 2021.
15. During post-production, editing was completed by William Goldenberg and the musical score was composed by Alexandre Desplat.
16. The film premiered at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2022.
17. It was theatrically released in the United States on March 18, 2022, after being postponed from its original February 25 date.
18. The film was released on streaming on April 8, 2022, and on Blu-ray and DVD on May 3, 2022, by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
19. In the United States and Canada, The Outfit was released alongside Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Umma, and X, and was projected to gross $750,000–2.5 million from 1,324 theaters in its opening weekend.
20. The film earned $1.5 million in its opening weekend, finishing eighth.
21. Men made up 56% of the audience during its opening, with those above the age of 35 comprising 60% of ticket sales and those above 45 comprising 40%.
22. The ethnic breakdown of the audience showed that 60% were Caucasian, 15% Hispanic and Latino Americans, 10% African American, and 15% Asian or other.
23. The film dropped out of the box office top ten in its second weekend, finishing twelfth with $568,180
24. Mark Rylance was actually trained in tailoring techniques by the famous Huntsman tailors on Savile Row, previously seen in the Kingsman series.
25. You can catch a glimpse of their iconic house tweed momentarily in the film.
26. The title has a dual meaning. The Chicago mafia is referred to as The Outfit.
27. The Minifon Attaché (or Minifon Hi-Fi) portable cassette recorder shown in this movie was not introduced until 1959, about three years after the December 1956 setting of “The Outfit.” This device/media was known to be used by the CIA, not the FBI. The outer casing of this movie prop appears to be painted a blackish color, and the lid-emblem was replaced by one marked SVR and 550. This may be a misleading Easter egg alluding to black ops, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service “Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki” (a 1991 spin-off of the KGB), and the FTP error 550 code for “file not found.” Magnetic-wire spool recording was the go-to technology in the 50s, a German-made Minifon Mi-51 was even featured in 1954s “Dragnet,” but the American-made Dictaphone Dictet cassette-tape recorder might have been perfect as the “new gizmo the Feds came up with,” being first advertised in a January 1957 magazine print ad.
28. La Fontaine says she’s lived in Chicago her whole life yet she has a French accent for some unknown reason.
29. The performances of the cast, especially Rylance’s, were well-received. Critics gave positive notes to the costume and production design, cinematography, score, and Moore’s screenplay.
30. Dylan O’Brien & Zoey Deutch collaborated again in Not Okay (2022).