Friday, May 22, 2026

Box Office Shock: Nearly Silent Horror Film “A Quiet Place” Eyeing $50 Mil Weekend, Blows Away Spielberg, Big Studio Comedy

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John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place” has made a big noise at the box office. The smart horror film beat Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” and the big studio comedy “Blockers” to win Friday night and the weekend with a trouncing.

“A Quiet Place” took in a whopping  $19 million and heads to a $50 million weekend. Like “Get Out,” Krasinski’s movie continues to blaze a trail for a new level of psychological horror.

Meanwhile, “Ready Player One” is up to $78 million with a $6.8 million Friday. It finished third. “Blockers,” at number 2, made $7.1 million Friday night.

And as I noted earlier, “Black Panther” becomes the number 3 movie of all time today.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is 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. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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