At just past 7 Thursday evening, shrieks and flashbulbs filled Grand Street in Manhattan, as Timothée Chalamet, dressed in a pink hoodie and as yet unreleased Dior sneakers, led a team of pingpong-ball-helmeted accomplices into the pop up for his upcoming movie “Marty Supreme.” The film, directed by Josh Safdie, tells the story of Marty Mauser, a fictional manic pingpong champion from the 1950s who turns whatever he touches into sheer chaos.

About a minute later, the 29-year-old Chalamet disappeared into the storefront. The cries for his attention abated. Timmymania was on pause. But the line to buy “Marty” merch snaked back for over two blocks, slowly funneling the throng to purchase $250 windbreakers and $95 sweatpants bearing the title of a movie that most, if not all of them, will not

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