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