Tag: A Quiet Place
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‘A Quiet Place’ to Lead Box Office, ‘Rampage’ Debuts at $32 Million
Thanks to strong word of mouth, John Krasinski’s horror film “A Quiet Place” is looking to top the box office for the second weekend in a row with $34 million from 3,589 domestic locations.Just behind the SXSW success story is Warner Bros.-New Line’s “Rampage” with $32 million from 4,101 sites. Friday’s estimates had adjusted the…
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How ‘A Quiet Place’ Roared at the Domestic Box Office
Last weekend “A Quiet Place” (Paramount) accomplished a rare box office feat: it exceeded all projections. And its strong word of mouth could catapult John Krasinski’s $20-million horror sleeper to a mighty domestic total of $125 million or higher.So far an otherwise lackluster 2018 has been dominated by Disney/Marvel’s “Black Panther,” the biggest film ever…
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‘Rampage’ to Debut Behind ‘A Quiet Place’ in Muted Opening Weekend
Dwayne Johnson’s action-fantasy “Rampage” is heading for downbeat North American opening weekend of about $27 million to $32 million at 3,950 locations, early estimates showed Friday.That’s well below forecasts and signals that Paramount’s second weekend of John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place” should repeat as the box office winner with about $34 million at 3,508 sites.…
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‘Rampage’ Stomps to $2.4 Million in Thursday Night Previews
Dwayne Johnson’s “Rampage” has opened with a solid $2.4 million in Thursday night preview screenings in North America.Universal-Blumhouse’s “Truth or Dare” grossed $750,000 in Thursday night shows at 2,400 locations.“Rampage,” from New Line and Warner Bros., showed its strongest performance among younger customers. “Rampage,” loosely based on the 1986 Midway arcade game, has been forecasted…
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‘Rampage’ Prepares to Fight Off ‘Quiet Place’ & ‘Truth or Dare’ For Weekend #1
After leading Sony’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which just became the studio’s highest grossing domestic release of all-time, Dwayne Johnson arrives with his latest offering, starring in this weekend’s release of Warner Bros. and New Line’s Rampage. At the same time Blumhouse will debut its latest micro-budgeted thriller Truth or Dare, which will have…
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John Krasinski Has Chosen ‘Life On Mars’ As His Next Directorial Outing
After the $50 million opening weekend for his film, “A Quiet Place,” actor-director John Krasinski finds himself with a golden ticket. With a monster opening, the filmmaker now has the ability to do pretty much whatever he wants as a follow-up to his thriller, and it looks like we now know what that film is…
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‘A Quiet Place’ Composer Couldn’t Afford a Full Orchestra
[This story contains spoilers for A Quiet Place]For composer Marco Beltrami, A Quiet Place was all about doing more than less.It’s not just that the $17 million budgeted horror hit from writer-director John Krasinski was dialogue free, an inventive concept that helped propel the film into a $50 million opening week. Beltrami also had to…
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John Krasinski to Next Direct Sci-Fi Film ‘Life on Mars’
Well that was quick. Fresh off the smashing success of his horror thriller A Quiet Place, John Krasinski has solidified his next project—and it’s not a Quiet Place sequel. THR reports that Krasinski is reteaming with his Quiet Place producers Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form on the sci-fi thriller Life on Mars, which…
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Why smart horror is putting the fear into sequel-addicted Hollywood
While the industry hedges its bets on reboots and expanded universes, subversive scare flicks such as A Quiet Place and Get Out are making low-budget risk-taking payHorror, it seems, will never die. The undermining of traditional releasing strategies by Netflix premieres and simultaneous releases of movies in cinemas and on demand has led to Hollywood…
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‘A Quiet Place’ to Sound Out China Release in May
John Krasinski’s hit horror film “A Quiet Place” is set for a theatrical release in China on May 18.The film stars Emily Blunt and Krasinski as members of a family forced to live in silence, for fear or rousing predatory aliens who hunt by sound.Produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller, the film…