Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ Has Already Broken A Box Office Record
By Ben Pearson/March 22, 2019 3:30 pm EST
After winning an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for 2017’s Get Out, writer/director Jordan Peele is back with Us, a new tale of terror that’s a totally different type of movie. And it seems like audiences are curious about what Peele is bringing to the table, because the film has only been out for less than a day and it’s already broken a box office record.
Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ Has Already Broken A Box Office Record
By Ben Pearson/March 22, 2019 3:30 pm EST
After winning an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for 2017’s Get Out, writer/director Jordan Peele is back with Us, a new tale of terror that’s a totally different type of movie. And it seems like audiences are curious about what Peele is bringing to the table, because the film has only been out for less than a day and it’s already broken a box office record.
Us Box Office Record
BoxOfficeMojo says Us’s $7.4 million performance is more than four times as big as Get Out’s $1.8 million in previews, and it seems destined to open well enough that it should easily find itself as the latest entrant on the list of top 10 biggest opening weekends for R-rated horror films. Currently, that list looks like this:
Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family.
After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. Us pits an endearing American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves.
