If your true desire is after seeing Carrie Parker mania If you want to get the One Wish Willow, you may need to resort to some magic – or come up with large sums of cash.
Focus Features’ surprise horror smash created such a fan frenzy over the new item featured in the film that sold out of stock within 12 hours when payments arrived at the distributor’s online store. Buyers were limited to purchasing three at a time at $6.99 each, and Focus stocked the site on two separate occasions, first on April 15 and again on May 12. Although an exact number is not available, it is estimated that there are several thousand in circulation. More restocks are possible but nothing official has been confirmed.
After the online store ran out of supplies, sellers took to eBay and Etsy with options ranging from official replicas to outright scams. (Purchases from the One Wish Willow website come with certificates of authenticity and a disclaimer: “The One Wish Willow is 100 percent magical and 0 percent real. For entertainment only. No actual wishes have been granted.”) And the prices are absolutely wild. Hollywood Reporter Find multiple options on eBay that sell for $24.98 on the low end to $599.99 on the high end. Surprisingly, one Etsy seller was offering a copy for sale on Tuesday for $3.97, nearly half the regular price.
Written and directed by Parker, mania The film revolves around a music store employee named Bear (Michael Johnston), a hopeless romantic who falls in love with a co-worker named Nikki (Indi Navarrete). Desperate to win her over, Bear buys a new item called the One Wish Willow from a local store. After driving her home, Bear breaks the mysterious One Wish Willow in half and wishes her to love him more than anyone else in the entire world. The wish succeeds, but his romantic fantasy turns into a violent nightmare.
Focus gained mania from the Toronto International Film Festival for $15 million, beating out competing studios like Neon and A24. Produced on a budget of approximately US$750,000, the film became a certified box office phenomenon, breaking numerous records in just weeks. As of Monday, the film has grossed $225 million worldwide, is the most successful film ever released, and is the highest-grossing film of all time at festivals.
Parker, a YouTube phenomenon, was deep into details about all aspects of his directorial debut, even enlisting his graphic designer mother, Amy Vega, to design the One Wish Willow packaging. In an interview with THR Ahead of the release, Carrey explained how he wanted to rely on One Wish Willow to market the film.
“I wanted to make One Wish Willow a thing as much as One Wish Willow can be a thing,” he explained, adding that in addition to merchandise, it could inspire a world of storytelling. “It’s a great opportunity for an anthology [TV series]. Not every wish deserves its own hour, 45-minute movie, I feel like there’s a lot of opportunity for a one-hour, eight-episode series where maybe each episode is a different wish that has nothing to do with the other. It could be a Black mirror kind of thing.”
But back in the real world, One Wish Willow has already become a thing for the green man in Burbank. The Metaphysical Store and Pharmacy, located on Hollywood Way, is featured in the film and named as the place where Bear One buys Wish Willow for Nikki. The notoriety has tripled the business of the shop, which offers a wide range of services including magical advice, custom spell crafting, psychic readings, healing sessions, classes, events, clergy services, ceremonies and more. when THR I stopped by the retail space on Sunday near closing time, and it was full mania Fans, who all stopped by to buy One Wish Willows.
Per store manager Linda Snovak, Focus sent supplies to Green Man but they went quickly.
“We put the final batch on sale on Friday, and there was a long line at the opening,” Snovak explained. “We haven’t seen anything like this since our grand opening. Business has tripled since the movie came out, and this week has been particularly busy.”
Snovak said she doesn’t expect One Wish Willows to be back in stock anytime soon, but in the meantime, fans are purchasing other Green Man offerings that appeared in the movie like citrine necklaces (which Bear almost bought for Nikki) and tiger eye stones (which Nikki bought for Bear as a gift). “People are buying a lot of small trinkets like keys, candles, spell tools for children, magic oils and other items,” Snovak added. “We also have a display case that looks exactly like the one featured in the movie with the One Wish Willow and pendant that will be a permanent feature for people to take photos and videos with.”
Snovak wishes she had more One Wish Willows in stock, but she, like everyone in Hollywood, is also shocked Obsession The success and prosperity brought about by their businesses. “No one expected this to happen, and here we are.”
Aaron Koch contributed to this report.
