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‘A Quiet Place Part II’ is the First Movie of the Pandemic Era to Cross $100 Million Domestically

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Horror continues to bring the box office back to life.

After being bumped out of the top spot by The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It last week, John Krasinski‘s sequel A Quiet Place Part II once again returned to the top of the box office charts this past weekend, beating debuting films In the Heights and Peter Rabbit 2 in something of a surprise upset. And the film also just crossed a huge milestone.

Here in the United States, A Quiet Place Part II has to date scared up $108.9 million, making it the very first movie released during the pandemic to cross $100 million domestically!

A Quiet Place Part II added $11.6 million to its domestic total this past weekend, with the film’s worldwide gross now just under $200 million. For the sake of comparison, A Quiet Place ended its worldwide run with $340 million back in 2018, with $188 million made domestically. In just three weeks, and during a pandemic, the sequel isn’t all that far away from those numbers.

At the moment, A Quiet Place Part II is *only* playing in theaters, but it’s set to arrive on the Paramount Plus streaming service 45 days after its opening weekend theatrical release.

Behind A Quiet Place Part II on the charts this weekend, In the Heights was in the #2 spot with $11.4 million, while Peter Rabbit 2 only managed $10.4 million in its debut weekend.

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, meanwhile, added another $10 million to its domestic total, which sits at $43 million. Worldwide, the film has reached $111 million so far.

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Adds “Chucky” Actor Teo Briones and More to Lead Cast

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Pictured: Teo Briones in "Chucky" Season Two

The Final Destination franchise is returning to life with Final Destination: Bloodlines. With filming now underway, THR reports that three actors have joined the lead cast, including “Chucky” actor Teo Briones.

Brec Bassinger (“Stargirl”) and Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game) join Teo Briones, who played Junior Wheeler in season two of “Chucky,” as the leads in the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the fresh installment that also includes Richard Harmon (“The 100”, Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor) among the cast.

Production is now underway in Vancouver.

What can we expect from the upcoming Final Destination 6? Speaking with Collider, franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick offered up an intriguing (and mysterious) tease last year.

“This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful,” Reddick teased.

Reddick continued, “It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines is written by Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.

Producers on the new movie for New Line Cinema also include Dianne McGunigle (Cop Car) as well as Final Destination producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

This will be the sixth installment in the hit franchise, and the first in over ten years. Each film centers on “Death” hunting down young friends who survive a mass casualty event.

The latest entry is expected in 2025, coinciding with the original film’s 25th anniversary.

 

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