In its second weekend, You Can See Everything is defying box office expectations on an experimental documentary, even tailgating more traditional blockbusters like Clayface and Street Fighter . That doesn’t mean distributor A24 is above a video game movie here and there. Based on the hit FromSoftware fantasy, Elden Ring will be their first foray into game adaptations. And they’re betting big on it. The Wall Street Journal reports it will be A24’s most expensive movie to date. By a lot. Reportedly $200 million, a figure that only one of their films has crossed with returns.

Announced last year , the trend-setting A24 is venturing into the cross-media trend with FromSoftware’s Elden Ring . Directed by Ex Machina and Civil War ’s Alex Garland, there have been few signals of how the lore-dripping world will be handled beyond its sprawling cast and stumbled-upon sets .…