Trivia / Bros

• Box Office Bomb: Budget: $22 million. Box office: $14 million worldwide. Universal had projected the film to earn $10 million over its first domestic weekend, but it only managed half of that. Despite glowing reviews, exit data found non-LGBTQ people didn't show up and the film's audience was overwhelmingly gay and bisexual men. Not helping matters was its release competing with the buzzier, better-marketed Smile (2022), as well as the fact that a $22 million budget is a lot for a niche rom-com.
• Dear Negative Reader: Billy Eichner reacted to the movie's underperforming opening weekend via a Twitter thread blaming straight audiences, in certain parts of the United States, for not supporting it. This led to some online criticism towards his statements, with critics pointing out that even straight romantic comedies have done poorly at the box office in recent years, and turned off potential audiences that hadn't even heard of the movie in the first place.
• No Export for You:
  • The film has yet to see a release in Japan.
  • The film was not shown in all Arab world countries due to "cultural and commercial reasons".
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Both Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane are gay and play gay characters. In fact, every character with a speaking role (not counting celebrities cameoing as themselves) is played by an LGBT actor.
• What Could Have Been: Liam Hemsworth and Nick Jonas were supposed to cameo as straight actors playing gay lovers in the Brokeback Mountain parody Bobby was ranting about, but Hemsworth was unable to leave Australia during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Written by Cast Member: Billy Eichner also co-wrote the film.

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