{"id":147596,"date":"2022-11-08T13:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T07:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/smile-beams-to-200-million-at-the-worldwide-box-office\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:23:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T07:53:18","slug":"worldwide-box-office-smile-earns-200-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/worldwide-box-office-smile-earns-200-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide Box Office: ‘Smile’ Earns $200 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Paramount is now the highest grossing horror movie of 2022<\/p>\n

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Paramount was to suffer a relatively quiet fall after having dominated the first half of 2022. \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d and a slew of other hit films, but Parker Finn\u2019s original horror film \u201cSmile\u201dIt crossed yet another milestone that has been a great success for the studio. $200 million at the global movie box office<\/a>This weekend, it was the highest-grossing horror film. <\/p>\n

This year, the bar for this honor was lower than usual. Paramount was also last year’s top horror grosser. \u201cA Quiet Place \u2014 Part II,\u201dThis movie grossed $296 millions worldwide. These are some of the pre-pandemic horror hits \u201cIt\u201d($701 million in 2017), and the first \u201cQuiet Place\u201d($334 Million in 2018) saw more ticket sales. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That was something that no one could have anticipated. \u201cSmile\u201dThis would have been better than any of the other horror movies that came out this year, including franchises like autumn rival. \u201cHalloween Ends\u201d ($63 million domestic\/$102 million worldwide), which has struggled theatrically compared to past installments thanks to poor word-of-mouth and a simultaneous streaming release, and Paramount\u2019s own revival of \u201cScream\u201d ($81 million domestic\/$136 million worldwide), which did better during an early-year slump for the box office but didn\u2019t get the word-of-mouth that \u201cSmile\u201d had. <\/p>\n

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\u201cSmile\u201d has even outperformed two hit summer horror films from Universal, Scott Derrickson\u2019s \u201cThe Black Phone\u201d ($89 milliion domestic\/$161 million worldwide) and Jordan Peele\u2019s \u201cNope\u201d($123 million domestic\/$171million worldwide). While \u201cNope\u201dMost likely, will finish with a higher national total than \u201cSmile\u201d thanks to Peele\u2019s clout amongst American audiences, \u201cSmile\u201dHe has built an impressive overseas total for a film that was directed by a debut director with a reported budget only $17million. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be surprised at this overperformance considering how well horror has been performing both on the original and franchise sides,\u201dPaul Dergarabedian, a Comscore analyst, said that. \u201cBut this is an example of how unlike other genres, horror films don\u2019t really have to worry about cannibalizing one another if the word-of-mouth is strong. Despite films like \u2018Barbarian\u2019 and \u2018Halloween Ends\u2019 also being in theaters, \u2018Smile\u2019 was so popular that it has just kept playing and playing through its sixth weekend.\u201d <\/p>\n

As we noted when it was released in September, Paramount did an excellent job setting the film up for success with a creative marketing campaign led by viral videos of actors sporting the film\u2019s sinister, demon-possessed smile at Major League Baseball games. A premiere at Alamo Drafthouse\u2019s Fantastic Fest<\/a>It was also crucial to raise awareness among horror fans who would continue to praise it after its release. <\/p>\n

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\u201cSmile\u201dThe poor reception also helped them. \u201cHalloween Ends,\u201dThe other major horror movie from Studio A was released in theaters last month. \u201cEnds\u201dPeacock was also available daily on Peacock, further diminishing the moviegoer’s respect for it in theaters. This enabled \u201cSmile\u201dThis film is more popular than any other option for moviegoers seeking a horror movie around Halloween. It’s available not only in the U.S., but worldwide. <\/p>\n

Take all of these factors and you will have Paramount’s sixth hit film this year. \u201cScream,\u201d \u201cJackass Forever,\u201d \u201cThe Lost City,\u201d \u201cSonic the Hedgehog 2,\u201dOf course, \u201cTop Gun: Maverick.\u201d The studio will now turn to its potential Oscar contender, Damien Chazelle\u2019s \u201cBabylon,\u201dA film that hopes to make a profit on its $78 million budget. It draws audiences with a wild portrayal of 1920s Hollywood. This sets it apart from holiday offerings such as \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water\u201dAnd \u201cPuss In Boots: The Last Wish.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paramount is now the highest grossing horror movie of 2022 Paramount was to suffer a relatively quiet fall after having dominated the first half of 2022. \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d and a slew of other hit films, but Parker Finn\u2019s original horror film \u201cSmile\u201dIt crossed yet another milestone that has been a great success for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":147597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1667893974_Smile-Beams-to-200-Million-at-the-Worldwide-Box-Office.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147598,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147596\/revisions\/147598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}