Box Office: Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ Scares Up $44-M Debut
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"The original sci-fi horror mashup reunites the filmmaker with his 'Get Out' star Daniel Kaluuya"--Paul Ebeling
Acclaimed filmmaker Jordan Peele’s newest film, Nope, easily topped the domestic box office in its opening with an estimated $44-M from 3,785 theaters, according to Universal’s weekend estimates.
While that is certainly a solid start, the sci-fi horror adventure pic came in well behind the huge $71-M bow of Peele’s Us in Spring 2019. Either way, Nope still scored the biggest launch for an original studio screenplay since Us after besting the $41-M debut Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which was released in late July 2019.
Nope had been tracking for a domestic debut in the $50-M range heading into the weekend. It pulled in an estimated $19.3-M Friday alone, including a strong $6.4-M in Thursday previews, and continues the rebound at the Y 2022 box office.
Like his previous films, Nope is benefiting from an ethnically diverse audience, with black audiences over-indexing. An estimated 35% of ticket buyers on opening weekend were White, followed by black (33 percent), Latino (20 percent) and Asian (8 percent), according to Universal.
Nope earned a B CinemaScore from audiences, the same grade as Us
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Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick, rounding out the Top 5, remained unstoppable. The Tom Cruise movie finished Sunday with a domestic tally of $635.6-M and $1.28-B worldwide.
Focus Features’ specialty offering Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris came in #10 in its 2nd weekend with $847,000 from 1,001 locations for a domestic total of $2.9-M.
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