Box office round up
Studios are learning a pretty good lesson recently: if you make good horror movies people will show up. The obvious proof of this isIT, but backing that thesis up is this weekend’s $50 million for the stellarA Quiet Place. That’s the best Friday-Sunday opening for any movie this year not calledBlack Panther, including the likes ofReady Player One. Not too shabby for a movie that cost only $17 million to make.
The Flixist staff was actually just discussing the fact that we’re in a bit of a horror renaissance at the moment. In the past few years filmmakers of all kinds are tackling the genre, and bringing new and exciting things to it after what felt like a decade of stagnation. It’s a good time to get scared at the movies, that’s for sure.
Lets also point out thatBlockershad a really solid box office as well, coming in third over the weekend. The film is far funnier than you’d think for a movie starring John Cena and involving what seems like a terrible out-of-date premise (hint: it doesn’t play out like you think). If you’re looking for a comedy at some point you may do far, far, far worse.
1.A Quiet Place– $50,000,0002.Ready Player One– $25,060,0003.Blockers– $21,439,0004.Black Panther– $8,430,0005.I Can Only Imagine –$8,356,8006.Tyler Perry’s Acrimony– $8,065,0007.Chappaquiddick– $6,200,0008.Sherlock Gnomes– $5,600,0009.Pacific Rim: Uprising– $4,910,00010.Isle of Dogs–$4,600,000
