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‘A Quiet Place’ Making Noise at the Box Office With $50M Opening Weekend!
Paramount Pictures’ A Quiet Place is making noise this weekend, pulling in an estimated $50M through Sunday. To put it in perspective, this $17M-budgeted creature feature topped both Get Out and Split‘s opening weekend, proving that horror is still hotter than ever. With a $50M opening, we can expect it to top $100M domestically through its full theatrical run. Also, an updated report adds $21M internationally in 40 markets for a $71M worldwide opening!
In John Krasinski‘s directorial debut (read our review out of SXSW), a family lives an isolated existence in utter silence, for fear of an unknown threat that follows and attacks at any sound. Krasinski costars with his wife, Emily Blunt.
Critics adore this instant masterpiece that even Stephen King backed, tweeting out that it’s an “extraordinary piece of work,” while our very own John Squires wrote that its greatest accomplishment was getting audiences to STFU.
The film was produced by Platinum Dunes, who is shifting away from horror remakes (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Amityville Horror) and into original territory like their The Purge franchise.
Even before international numbers come in, this $50M opening all but guarantees a sequel. A Quiet Place is on the brink of becoming the next great horror franchise…
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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