Jordan Peele's horror flick tops Box Office with $44 millionIt's a yep' response to Jordan Peele's horror flick Nope', as it tops the box office with its $44 million debut on Sunday
by Agence France-Presse
25-07-2022 10:47
in Entertainment
Photo taken on 18 July, 2022 (L-R) British actor Daniel Kaluuya, director Jordan Peele, actreess Keke Palmer and actor Brandon Perea attend the World Premiere of Universal Pictures Nope at the Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California. Nope, Jordan Peele's latest withering horror-satire about our modern obsession with attention and spectacle, lands in movie theaters and at a fittingly Instagram-friendly Los Angeles theme park attraction this Friday.
The Oscar-winning writer-director who is widely credited with elevating and revitalizing the horror genre with Get Out and Us re-teams with Daniel Kaluuya, who plays OJ, a horse trainer spooked by otherworldly phenomena in the skies above his California ranch. Photo: VALERIE MACON / AFP
Universal's new horror flick Nope opened atop the North American box office, hammering the latest edition of Marvel's Thor franchise to earn an estimated $44 million (about R742 million), industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday.
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The alien-invasion sci-fi mystery, which features a Black family struggling to make ends meet on their bleached California horse ranch, is the highly-anticipated latest effort by writer and director Jordan Peele, whose 2017 debut Get Out earned rave reviews.
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JORDAN PEELE'S HORROR FLICK OPENS NUMBER ONE AT BOX OFFICE This is an excellent opening for an original horror movie,
said analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research. The film which stars Daniel Kaluuya, who stole the show in Get Out managed to bump Thor: Love and Thunder to second spot after the superhero blockbuster spent two weeks at number one.
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The action comedy starring a muscle-clad, self-parodying Chris Hemsworth as the space viking who finds himself pining for his ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), pulled in $22.1 million for the Friday-to-Sunday period, for a worldwide cumulative total of $276 million.
Third spot belonged to Minions: The Rise of Gru. The latest goofy installment in Universal's animated Despicable Me franchise took in $17.7 million, for a cumulative total of $298 million.
Where the Crawdads Sing also slipped one spot, to fourth. Sony's adaptation of Delia Owens' novel about an abandoned girl who grows up in marshland of 1950s and 60s North Carolina and, at a murder trial years later looks back on that rough and violent upbringing, earned $10.3 million.
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WHAT'S DROPPING? Dropping from fourth to fifth was Paramount's Top Gun: Maverick, the crowd-pleasing sequel to the original 1986 film that once again features Tom Cruise as cocky US Navy test pilot Pete Maverick Mitchell.
The fighter ace feature, in its ninth week in theaters, has now grossed an eye-popping $635 million worldwide.
Baz Luhrmann's music biopic Elvis starring Austin Butler as the King alongside Tom Hanks as his exploitative manager, Colonel Tom Parker took sixth in the Warner Bros film's fifth weekend of release, at $6.3 million.
Completing the top 10 were:
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank ($3.9 million)
The Black Phone ($3.4 million)
Jurassic World: Dominion ($3 million)
Mrs Harris goes to Paris ($1.3 million)
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Jordan Peele's horror flick tops Box Office with $44 millionIt's a yep' response to Jordan Peele's horror flick Nope', as it tops the box office with its $44 million debut on Sunday
