The Substance
2024 film by Coralie Fargeat
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| March 31 2025 | Released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United Kingdom. |
| 2025 | Demi Moore receives nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Substance. |
| January 21 2025 | Released on 4K, DVD and Blu-ray in the United States. |
| January 21 2025 | Home media release of The Substance on 4K, DVD, and Blu-ray in the United States. |
| January 17 2025 | The film returned to theaters in the United States as part of its awards season campaign. |
| 2024 | The film was cited by multiple notable filmmakers including Ana Lily Amirpour, Edward Berger, Davy Chou, Kelly Fremon Craig, Robert Eggers, Adam Elliot, Hannah Fidell, Michael Gracey, Kitty Green, Laurel Parmet, and Juel Taylor as one of their favorite films of the year. |
| 2024 | During its first week of PVOD (Premium Video on Demand) release, the film ranked #3 on iTunes and #6 on Fandango at Home. |
| 2024 | The film achieved over $10 million in box office revenue in Mexico after its theatrical run. |
| 2024 | Margaret Qualley learned choreography for The Substance, finding the process challenging and overwhelming, particularly when working with professional dancers. |
| 2024 | During production, Demi Moore contracted shingles and lost 20 pounds while filming The Substance. |
| 2024 | Fargeat personally performed a syringe injection on her own arm, doubling for Demi Moore in a shot. |
| 2024 | The birth sequence for The Substance took 15 days to film. |
| 2024 | Director Coralie Fargeat storyboarded all prosthetics and birth sections before production, focusing first on the birth scene during pre-production. |
| 2024 | Filming of the theater scenes took nearly three weeks, involving a complex blood spray sequence that required significant technical planning. |
| 2024 | The film grosses $77–82 million on an $18 million production budget, becoming Mubi's highest-grossing film. |
| November 6 2024 | The film is theatrically released in France by Metropolitan Filmexport. |
| October 31 2024 | Release of The Substance on MUBI's streaming platform and VOD in selected markets. |
| October 11 2024 | Theatrical release of the film in Spain. |
| September 20 2024 | Theatrical release of The Substance in the US, UK, Latin America, Germany, Canada, and Netherlands. Simultaneously, the film's soundtrack was released digitally through Waxwork Records. |
| September 20 2024 | The film is theatrically released in the United Kingdom and the United States by Mubi. |
| June 16 2024 | Second premiere of the film at the Sydney Film Festival. |
| May 19 2024 | The Substance premieres at the 77th Cannes Film Festival main competition, where director Coralie Fargeat wins Best Screenplay. |
| January 2024 | British producer and composer Raffertie became involved in the film score late during post-production, tasked with creating an electronic score focusing on the duality between characters Elisabeth and Sue. |
| 2022 | Coralie Fargeat created Blacksmith, a Paris-based production company, in the same year she directed and produced 'The Substance'. |
| 2022 | Coralie Fargeat begins writing the screenplay for The Substance, motivated by societal pressures on women's bodies and aging, spending two years developing the script. |
| 2022 | Margaret Qualley was in Panama shooting Claire Denis's Stars at Noon when she read the script for The Substance and was drawn to the role. |
| October 2022 | Filming for 'The Substance' concluded after 108 shooting days, having started in May of the same year. |
| May 2022 | Ray Liotta, originally cast as Harvey, died, leading to his replacement by Dennis Quaid three months into filming. |
| May 9 2022 | Filming for 'The Substance' began, marking the start of the international co-production between France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. |
| 2020 | A draft of the script for The Substance was completed, with Sue originally described as blonde. |
| 2017 | After the critical success of Revenge, Cornelia Fargeat began considering studio film opportunities, including a potential Marvel Cinematic Universe Black Widow film. |
| 2017 | Eric Fellner first traveled to Paris to meet with Fargeat and persuade her to choose Working Title for her next project after seeing Revenge. |
| 2014 | Fargeat created her short film Reality+, which loosely inspired the screenplay for The Substance. |
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