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We Are Your Friends - Official Trailer_  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Aug 31, 2015 7:57 PM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Aug 31, 2015 7:57 PM UTC There’s never been a better time to enter the world of electronic dance music (EDM)—except perhaps on the big screen. _We Are Your Friends_, which was directed by _Catfish_‘s Max Joseph and follows an aspiring DJ played by Zac Efron, just had [one of the worst movie openings of all time](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zac-efron-we-are-your-friends-worst-openings%5F55e45b86e4b0b7a963397c56). How bad, exactly? The movie grossed $1.8 million from 2,333 theaters, which according to the website Box Office Mojo is the fourth-worst wide-release opening weekend among films that launched in more than 2,000 theaters. (Its data only goes back to 1982, however.) If you look at only new movies from major studios opening in at least that many theaters, the Hollywood Reporter says, then _We Are Your Friends_ had the lowest-grossing opening of all time. “This was a passion project for Zac Efron, and we believe in him,” Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros. executive vice president for domestic distribution, [told _THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-compton-no-1-818692). “Yes, the result was disappointing, but this was a small film.” The film was expected to bring in closer to $8 million. ### See Music Festivals Like You've Never Seen Them Before  Untitled (New York, Monegros Desert), 2014 Felix R. Cid  Untitled (Sydney, Zurich, Catalonia), 2014 Felix R. Cid  Untitled (Detroit), 2014 Felix R. Cid  Untitled (Ibiza, Madrid, Goa), 2014 Felix R. Cid  Untitled (Portugal, Rumania, London, Formentera), 2014 Felix R. Cid  Untitled (Paris), 2014 Felix R. Cid \[[_Huffington Post_](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zac-efron-we-are-your-friends-worst-openings%5F55e45b86e4b0b7a963397c56)\] _Read next:_ [_Max Joseph on_ ](http://time.com/4013379/max-joseph-catfish-we-are-your-friends/?iid=time%5Freadnext)[Catfish _and_ We Are Your Friends](http://time.com/4013379/max-joseph-catfish-we-are-your-friends/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day_](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Study halls. SATs. Liberal Arts. Student loans. Lay offs. Lay offs, bailouts, broken dreams. This is not our future. Things are different for us. You can invent an app, start a blog, sell things online. My friends and I? We promote parties. Bring your friends, bring all your friends. If they looks like you, bring them all. But if you're a DJ, all you need is a laptop, some talent, and one track. That That track is your ticket to everything. That guy right there? Scott, that's the man right there. He's DJing. I'm DJing. Just the side room though. Can you play Drunk In Love? Absolutely not. I just read about this guy, right, who invented Instagram. He sold it for $ 400 million. And he was 26 years old. You guys wanna make real money? Or you wanna live and die in the valley? We gotta get outta here. [ MUSIC ] Hey, you know this party's looking a little stiff. So what are you saying? I need to amp it up? I mean, you could try. [ MUSIC ] It's the DJ's job to get the crowd out of their heads and into their bodies. I like to start em off at 125 beats per minute. Once you've locked onto their heart rate, you start bringing them up song by song. ] 128 beats per minute, that's the magic number. You were good out there, you really know how work a crowd. Play me something. I'm just gonna skip ahead. Whenever you guys are ready to start making some really loot, you need to holler at me. You think I'm going to work for that guy, you're out of your mind. This is our future. No. I mean. Are we ever gonna be better than this? James thinks you're really talented. [ MUSIC ] Any successful artist at this moment, when they stop being an admirer, and they find their signature. Sounds have soul. Build them from scratch. Find new ones. [ MUSIC ] Get your head out of the laptop and start to see what the real world is trying to tell you. We don't need them, we've got our own thing. It doesn't work like that, we're not going to be millionaires. It is not going to happen. What happened to loyalty? What are not loyal now? Everybody is responsible for themselves, you've got that? [ MUSIC ] If you have a dream, and it's made of everything that's made you. Hardship, friendship, so much love. That's your ticket to everything. This is my future. This is gonna be the best The best Best Night Of Your Life. What's up? I'm Cole Carter. We are your friends. 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