{"id":2265691,"date":"2026-02-04T01:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2265691"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:03:06","slug":"the-iron-lung-box-office-controversy-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-iron-lung-box-office-controversy-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iron Lung Box Office Controversy, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was a busy weekend to close out January at the box office. Not only did Sam Raimi<\/a>‘s new horror movie “Send Help<\/a>” come in at number one with $20 million, but YouTuber Markiplier<\/a>‘s indie sensation “Iron Lung<\/a>” was right on its heels with $17.8 million, straight-up shocking the industry. However, a little bit of controversy emerged over the film’s box office reporting, although it mostly boiled down to a simple misunderstanding.<\/p>\n

Taking to TikTok<\/a> on Sunday, Markiplier, aka Mark Fischbach<\/a>, shared an observation when looking at the daily box office numbers over the weekend via The Numbers, an online box office database and site for reporting on related matters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It was a busy weekend to close out January at the box office. Not only did Sam Raimi‘s new horror movie “Send Help” come in at number one with $20 million, but YouTuber Markiplier‘s indie sensation “Iron Lung” was right on its heels with $17.8 million, straight-up shocking the industry. However, a little bit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2265692,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2265691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","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\/The-Iron-Lung-Box-Office-Controversy-Explained.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265691","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=2265691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265693,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265691\/revisions\/2265693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}