A QUIET PLACE Exceeds Expectations With $50M+ Opening; READY PLAYER ONE Tops $400M Worldwide
John Krasinski's A Quiet Place was anything but quiet this past weekend, opening to a massive $50 million. Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One should top $400M today. Come check it out!
After being projected for an opening weekend in the mid-40s, Paramount's A Quiet Place has exceeded expectations with a strong $50.2 million domestic debut. The John Krasinski-directed horror feature, which stars his real-life wife Emily Blunt in the lead, also brought in another $21 million from forty foreign markets, bringing its current worldwide cume to just over $71.2 million.
This is a pretty major and much-needed win for Paramount Pictures, especially considering that A Quiet Place only carried an estimated $17 million production budget. The $50 million+ opening was larger than the openings of fellow critically-acclaimed horror films, Get Out ($33.3M) and Split ($40M), and even topped the opening weekend for last year's big Paramount film, Transformers: The Last Knight ($44.6M). It's now the studio's biggest opener since Star Trek Beyond opened to $59.2 million back in 2016 and, despite the Annihilation misfire, sets the studio up for a promising 2018 with Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Bumblebee also due out later this year.
As for last weekend's holdover, Ready Player One dipped a respectable 41% with another $24.6 million in its second frame, bringing its domestic sum to $96.5 million. Internationally, Steven Spielberg's latest continues to impress and has brought in over $300 million to date (including over $161.3M from China), which means RPO should have crossed $400 million worldwide at the end of business yesterday. Positive reviews and an extremely strong word-of-mouth have provided a huge boost for the film and we should expect some strong legs as we move on through April.
Meanwhile, Universal's well-received comedy, Blockers, finished third with $31.1 million worldwide ($20.5 million domestic, $10.6 million foreign), which is a solid start on a $21 million production budget.
As reported earlier, Marvel's Black Panther continues to dominate and has now topped $1.3 billion ($665.6M domestic; $634.5M foreign). Additionally, Sony's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which is actually now out on Blu-ray, collected another $441,016 in its sixteenth weekend, which brings its domestic cume to $403.6 million. The Dwayne Johnson-starrer is now just $54,266 behind 2002's Spider-Man ($403.7M domestic) and is likely on its way to becoming Sony's biggest film ever domestically (not accounting for inflation). Worldwide, it has amazingly topped $950.7 million and will likely finish its run as Sony's second-biggest film ever after 2012's Skyfall ($1.1B).
In the modern horror thriller A QUIET PLACE, a family of four must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival. If they hear you, they hunt you.
A Quiet Place features:
Director: John Krasinski
John Krasinski as Lee Abbott
Emily Blunt as Evelyn Abbott
Noah Jupe as Marcus Abbott
Millicent Simmonds as Regan Abbott
A Quiet Place is out in theaters NOW!