Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Box Office: “A Quiet Place” Soars with $50Mil, Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” Eyes $100 Mil After 2nd Week, “Black Panther” Now 3rd All Time

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Box office numbers are coming in this morning.

Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” hit $96.9 million this week, in its second week of release. The $100 mil mark is a day or so away, which is pretty impressive. The fall off from week 1 was rather small, which means “RPO” has a lot of life left in it.

“Black Panther” hit $665 million and became the number 3 movie of all time in the US. On and on it will go, maybe up to $700 million before it’s done.

But the big story of the weekend is “A Quiet Place.” Made for peanuts, the John Krasinski directed horror film made a big noise and attracted everyone’s attention. It’s number 1, coming in at $50 million. “A Quiet Place” cost just $17 million– it will be one of the most profitable movies of the year, if not the decade.

Look for the film, the director and star Emily Blunt all to get Oscar nominations. Remember I told you this.

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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