{"id":2263119,"date":"2026-02-02T16:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2263119"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:25:33","slug":"iron-lung-director-markiplier-cries-after-self-financed-movie-debuts-to-21-million-globally-a-heros-moment-to-show-indie-filmmaking-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/iron-lung-director-markiplier-cries-after-self-financed-movie-debuts-to-21-million-globally-a-heros-moment-to-show-indie-filmmaking-is-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Iron Lung\u2019 Director Markiplier Cries After Self-Financed Movie Debuts to $21 Million Globally: \u2018A Hero\u2019s Moment to Show Indie Filmmaking Is Possible\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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YouTuber Markiplier<\/a> got emotional about the remarkable turnout for \u201cIron Lung<\/a>,\u201d a very independent filmmaking adventure that debuted at No. 2 in North America with $17.8 million from 3,015 theaters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIron Lung<\/a>\u201d also earned $3 million internationally for a global tally of $21.7 million. This opening weekend is notable because \u201cIron Lung<\/a>\u201d wasn\u2019t far behind a major release from Disney \u2014 Sam Raimi<\/a>\u2019s thriller \u201cSend Help<\/a>,\u201d which launched to $30 million \u2014 but without mainstream resources. Markiplier (whose real name is Mark Fischback) self-financed and distributed \u201cIron Lung<\/a>,\u201d which reportedly cost $3 million to produce. He also wrote, directed and stars in the film, a post-apocalyptic video game adaptation about a fugitive who has to scavenge natural resources in an ocean of blood after a rapture.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m tearing up at the beginning of this,\u201d Markiplier said during a YouTube<\/a> livestream on Sunday night. \u201cIt\u2019s been a bit of an emotional day in the best way possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YouTuber Markiplier got emotional about the remarkable turnout for \u201cIron Lung,\u201d a very independent filmmaking adventure that debuted at No. 2 in North America with $17.8 million from 3,015 theaters. \u201cIron Lung\u201d also earned $3 million internationally for a global tally of $21.7 million. This opening weekend is notable because \u201cIron Lung\u201d wasn\u2019t far behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2263120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2263119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Iron-Lung-Director-Markiplier-Cries-After-Self-Financed-Movie-Debuts-to.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263121,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263119\/revisions\/2263121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}