Here are the box office records 'Us' broke (or almost broke) in its $71.2 million debut:
superb marketing and relatively positive buzz, Jordan Peele’sopened with a whopping $71.185 million, reported by Universal yesterday morning. The $20m-budgeted Monkey Paw Productions release roared out of the gate like a bat out of hell, in more ways than one. The much-anticipated follow-up to the Oscar-winningmore than lived up to the hype, opening above most of the most optimistic projections.
And, yes, the home-invasion horror fantasy, starring current Best Actress Oscar front-runner Lupita Nyong’o and Best Supporting Actress Oscar front-runner Lupita Nyong’o, shattered a whole bunch of box office records this weekend, some more arbitrary than others. So, as I like to do when this kind of thing goes down, here is a quick rundown of the various box office records, benchmarks and milestones that Jordan Peele’sreached in its first three days of domestic theatrical play.
Among all remotely scary movies , the opening weekend for Jordan Peele’s home invasion thriller is behind only
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