Jordan Peele’s third feature as director,Nope,The 3,250 theaters that opened at 4PM last night grossed $6.4M.
That’s a good start for a Peele movie, just 14% off from the $7.4M which his last horror pic, Us, Made in March 2019. The domestic box office opened with $71.1M, making it the biggest opening for an R-Rated horror movie.
Nope‘s previews are well ahead ofGet Out‘s $1.8M, which was a movie that audiences discovered in its opening weekend and flocked to, sending its opening to $33.3M.
Contact Usis Peele’s longest movie to date at 2 hours and 15 minutes. The movie’s critical scores on Rotten Tomatoes are, so far, the lowest of his three films, but the numbers are pretty good at 81% next to Contact Us‘ 93% Certified fresh and the Oscar-winningGet Out‘s at 98% certified fresh. Rotten Tomatoes: The Audience ScoreNopeCurrent standings are 78% next.Contact Us‘ 60% andGet out‘s 86%.
NopeIt is expected to gross around $50M. Given the length of the film, which is typical for horror movies, it may make less. However, this could be due to the ease in the critical response. The film was made for $68M in the Santa Clarity Valley before P&A.
Disney/Marvel’sThor: Love and ThunderThe film was the most popular in regular release Thursday with an estimated $3.8M at 4,375 theatres. This is -15% off Wednesday’s total for a two-week run of $254M. Thor: RagnarokComparatively to the same time period.
Universal/Illumination’sRise of Gru the Minionsdid $3.6M at 4,114 theaters, -4% from Wednesday for a running three week total of $280.1M, 1.8% ahead of 2015’s Minions Over the same period.MinionsIt ended its stateside run with $336M
Sony’sWhere the Crawdads singThe Thursday performance at 3,650 theaters was $2.3M, which is -8% from Wednesday’s total of $28M for the first week. That’s 31% ahead of the $21.3M first week take of summer weepy The NotebookThe domestic box office ended up closing at $81M
Paramount/Skydance’sMaverick: Top GunAt 3,292 gross $1.6M yesterday, which is -4% from Wednesday. This makes it a total of $625.5M for the eight weeks.
Warner Bros.’ElvisA fourth Thursday saw $1.2M in sales, which was -10% more than Wednesday’s total of $112M.
Paramount’s animated family movieThe Legend of Hank: Paws of FuryYesterday’s posting of $777K was +1.3% to $9.8M for the first week.