{"id":24042,"date":"2022-07-24T10:53:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T10:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/box-office-nope-abducting-44-5-million-opening-weekend\/"},"modified":"2022-07-24T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T10:53:43","slug":"box-office-nope-abducting-44-5-million-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/box-office-nope-abducting-44-5-million-opening-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Nope’ Abducting $44.5 Million Opening Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jordan Peele’s \u201cNope\u201d is successfully sending a message to moviegoers: get out\u2026 and go to a theater.<\/p>\n

The Universal release is expected to net a $44.5 million opening this weekend from 3,785 theaters, marking Peele’s third consecutive movie to debut at the top of the domestic box office.<\/p>\n

The first indication that \u201cNope\u201d might just be a summer box office hit came from its Thursday previews, which brought in a strong $6.4 million. Early projections saw the sci-fi horror movie making $45 million to $60 million by the end of its opening weekend. The film is coming in a hair under those estimates.<\/p>\n

\u201cNope\u201d is projecting a debut a notch above Peele’s first film, 2017’s \u201cGet Out,\u201d which opened to $33.7 million, but a good deal lower than Peele’s sophomore effort, 2019’s \u201cUs,\u201d which opened to $71.1 million. Both films wound up totaling about $255 million worldwide. To match that milestone, \u201cNope\u201d will have to rely on solid word-of-mouth in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cNope\u201d carries a production budget of $68 million, a good deal higher than the $4.5 million and $20 million figures that \u201cGet Out\u201d and \u201cUs\u201d respectively possessed.<\/p>\n

Even with the larger financial burden, \u201cNope\u201d looks to make a decent profit. How the film’s word-of-mouth stands will be better inferred after its second weekend performance, though it isn’t all sunshine and lollipops. Research firm Cinema Score assigned a \u201cB\u201d grade to \u201cNope,\u201d indicating a not entirely enthusiastic reaction from general moviegoers. Even so, a more middling Cinema Score grade isn’t uncommon for the horror genre.<\/p>\n

Beyond that \u201cNope\u201d remains a rather buzzy title, buoyed by strong support from critics. Peele’s film currently holds an 84% approval rating from top critics on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. variety<\/em>‘s Owen Gleiberman was so-so on the film, writing that \u201cNope\u201d \u201cis a tantalizingly creepy mixed bag of a sci-fi thriller\u201d in which \u201canticipation works better than the payoff.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Oscar-winning writer-director Peele, \u201cNope\u201d stars Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun in a story of horse-wrangler siblings who make an unsettling, out-of-this-world discovery.<\/p>\n

Disney’s \u201cThor: Love and Thunder\u201d is falling to second on domestic charts. The superhero entry earned $6.12 million on Friday, marking a 56% drop from last week.<\/p>\n

As is typical for Marvel Studios, \u201cLove and Thunder\u201d has been a box office force, grossing $260 million in North America so far. The film currently stands as the sixth-highest grossing domestic release of the year, still trending above the series’ previous entry, \u201cThor: Ragnarok,\u201d which had earned $235 million by the same point in its theatrical run.<\/p>\n

Universal’s \u201cMinions: The Rise of Gru\u201d looks to take third, projecting a slim 37% drop in its fourth weekend of release. The animated prequel is expected to net $16.8 million this weekend and should push its domestic haul beyond $300 million in the coming week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rise of Gru\u201d stands as the fifth-highest grossing domestic release of the year. The film’s 2015 predecessor, \u201cMinions,\u201d ended its North American run with $336 million in the bank.<\/p>\n

Sony’s \u201cWhere the Crawdads Sing\u201d is shooting for fourth or fifth place, projecting a $9.75 million haul in its second weekend. That would mark a modest 43% fall from the adaptation’s opening last weekend, demonstrating that word-of-mouth around the Daisy Edgar-Jones starrer is in a solid place.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the top five of domestic charts, Paramount and Skydance’s \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d refuses to back down. In its ninth weekend of release, the Tom Cruise sequel is projected to drop a slim 23%, adding $9.45 million to its domestic haul.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaverick\u201d surpassed \u201cThe Avengers\u201d earlier this week to become the ninth-highest grossing domestic release of all time. With $628 million in the bank, the Paramount release would have a ways to go to reach the eighth place slot, held by \u201cJurassic World\u201d at $652 million. Then again, \u201cMaverick\u201d has done nothing but exceed expectations so far.<\/p>\n

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