Tony is A24's Anthony Bourdain origin film, and Google Search interest for the keyword tony movie is still rising through its wide theatrical week. Trends MCP records 100 for the week of August 22 2026, the series peak on a 261-week google search pull, up from 73 on August 15, 61 on August 8, and 30 on July 25. That is a series-derived +233.33% 30-day rise from 30 and a +488.24% 90-day rise from 17 on May 23. get_growth returns +36.62% over 7 days (71 to 97) and +234.48% over 30 days (29 to 97); the weekly series endpoint is 100, three points above that growth print. Wikipedia dates the limited opening to August 7 2026 and the nationwide expansion to August 21. IMDb MOVIEmeter ranked Tony (2026) at 17 on August 28 2026 at 18:01 UTC. Data pulled August 28 2026 from source google search.
About tony movie
Tony is a 2026 A24 biographical film about Anthony Bourdain's early kitchen years in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the stretch later told in his 2000 memoir Kitchen Confidential, with Matt Johnson directing and Dominic Sessa starring as Bourdain beside Antonio Banderas, Emilia Jones, and Leo Woodall.
A24 distributed the 106-minute film. Deadline Hollywood dated A24's interest to August 12 2024, Banderas joining to April 23 2025, Jones and Woodall to May 15 2025, and filming wrap to August 12 2025. The Hollywood Reporter and Variety both dated the first trailer to May 5 2026. Wikipedia records a limited opening in the United States on August 7 2026 and a nationwide expansion on August 21. Wikipedia, fetched August 28 2026, shows a 94% Tomatometer from 198 reviews at 7.7/10, a Metacritic score of 75 from 50 critics, and box office of $8 million citing The Numbers as of August 24. IndieWire on August 23 2026 reported $5 million from 1,652 screens that weekend. The query also matches older films titled Tony.
What the time series shows
The stored weekly series opens at 10 on August 28 2021 and spends four years in a 7-18 band, with brief lifts before 2026 breaks that floor on the google search source used for this page.
2026 prints 30 on May 9, 17 on May 23, 30 on July 25, 40 on August 1, 61 on August 8, 73 on August 15, and 100 on August 22. The recent 30-day absolute change is 70 points (30 to 100) against a prior 30-day change of 13 points (17 on June 20 to 30), so the rise is still accelerating. Week-over-week percent-change sample standard deviation over the last 52 prints is about 20.9. The 30-day change of +233.33% clears the +100% bar, and 100 is the peak. Same-week 2025 printed 17. The stored August 27 2026 page had 92 on the same August 22 week; this pull reprints 100.
How Tony lines up with other August films
Mutiny, The Dog Stars, and Insidious are also on the same day's IMDb MOVIEmeter board, which is why tony movie belongs next to those topic pages rather than next to a one-day celebrity slug.
get_growth on google search, pulled August 28 2026, prints mutiny at 100, +334.78% over 7 days and +669.23% over 30 days; the dog stars at 41, +86.36% and +272.73%; the last house at 44, -56.0% and +238.46%; the invite at 78, -14.29% and -7.14%. IMDb MOVIEmeter as of August 28 2026 18:01 UTC lists The Odyssey at 1, Mutiny at 4, Insidious: Out of the Further at 5, The Invite at 8, The Dog Stars at 16, and Tony (2026) at 17. Topic pages: Mutiny, The Dog Stars, Insidious. Source context: IMDb MOVIEmeter API.