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‘Rampage’ Demolishes Box Office; ‘A Quiet Place’ Keeps Making Noise; ‘Truth or Dare’ Comes in Third
Genre films continue to beat down the competition as Warner Bros./New Line Cinema’s video game adaptation of Rampage (read our review) has not only broken the curse, but annihilated the worldwide box office.
The Brad Peyton-directed, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson-starrer took the top of the weekend box office with an estimated $34.5M domestic and a ridiculous $114M international for a worldwide total of $148.6M! With Rampage‘s $120M reported budget and marketing spend, it still has quite a ways to go before it can be called a success, but it’s hard to think it won’t find a way as it stomps its way across the globe.
As for John Krasinski‘s directorial debut A Quiet Place (read our review out of SXSW), it dropped only 35% and nearly stole the top spot from Rampage. It was able to take in an estimated $32.6M in its second week of release for a domestic total of $99.6M. It’s topped $150M internationally on just a $17M budget making it one of the year’s biggest hits already. A $200M+ theatrical run isn’t out of the question for this Platinum Dunes-produced horror film about a family that lives an isolated existence in utter silence, for fear of an unknown threat that follows and attacks at any sound.
Blumhouse’s hot streak has slowed a bit with the critically-panned Truth or Dare (read our review), which still managed an impressive debut at the third position in its opening weekend. While full weekend estimates are forthcoming, it did manage to take in $19M on a $3.5M reported budget. Even with marketing expenses, this should recoup here in the States easily with international box office being the gravy.
What’s the takeaway here? Well, horror is accounting for $87M of this weekend’s box office take. Studios need to take notice…
Updated headline and tightened the numbers. We’re up to date as of 11:22 AM. Thanks to ERC Box Office for their reporting.
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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