SaysWho? Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4497&p=.htm Quote Universal's release of Jordan Peele's Us dominated the domestic box office, not only out-performing the opening weekends for several recent horror hits, but delivering the second largest opening ever for a live-action, original picture, topping the weekend box office with over $70 million. As a result, the 2019 box office continues to improve over the month of March after struggling to begin the year. Overall, this weekend was the third straight to outperform the same weekend last year. At #1, with an estimated $70.25 million (~49.6% of all tickets sold among the top 12 films), Us topped the weekend box office with the third largest opening of all-time for an R-rated horror film, blowing away 2018's The Nun ($53.8m opening) and placing behind Universal's own Halloween, which opened with $76.2 million last October. The film also decimated the opening for Peele's previous film Get Out, which was a massive hit back in 2017 following a $33.3 million debut. Get Out would go on to gross over $176 million domestically, ranking as the third largest horror film of all-time domestically. One mind-blowing stat is to note that while animated features such as Inside Out ($90.4m), Zootopia ($75m), The Incredibles ($70.46m) and Finding Nemo ($70.25m) opened higher, the $70.25 million debut for Us is the largest opening for a live-action, original film since Avatar's $77 million debut back in 2009. On a list dominated by sequels it's not often original content is seen to climb quite so high. Additionally, Us delivered the largest opening for an original, R-rated film, topping Universal's Ted ($54.4m) not to mention the largest opening for an original horror film, topping A Quiet Place ($50.2m). The performance comes with a "B" CinemaScore, which is a notch below the "A-" for Get Out, but is still a solid audience grade for a horror film. The overall opening weekend audience was split 50/50 among males and females and 53% of the overall audience was aged 25 or older. Weekend: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=&yr=2019&wknd=12&p=.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Amazing opening for Us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury33 Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Wait, so Us and Halloween are both in the top 3 for largest horror openings of all time while also holding above average/great cinemascore??? But I was led to believe both movies were trash by a certain user on this board? 🤔🤔🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Madea has done quite well too but doesn’t mean it’s not a trash movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 22 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: Madea has done quite well too but doesn’t mean it’s not a trash movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 2 hours ago, Mercury33 said: Wait, so Us and Halloween are both in the top 3 for largest horror openings of all time while also holding above average/great cinemascore??? But I was led to believe both movies were trash by a certain user on this board? 🤔🤔🤔 Emblazon's opinion has been consistently contrarian throughout the years on films. I personally have rarely agreed with him, but there ya go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 5 hours ago, Greatoneshere said: Emblazon's opinion has been consistently contrarian throughout the years on films. I personally have rarely agreed with him, but there ya go. I feel the Emblazerbole has been toned down the past couple of years though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Just now, Keyser_Soze said: I feel the Emblazerbole has been toned down the past couple of years though. He posts a lot less around here, so I haven't noticed that one way or the other as much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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