Vice-Versa 2 beats Quiet Place prequel as Horizon Bombs

Pixar Inside Out 2 remained on top of the domestic box office in its third weekend with a healthy $57.4 million, enough to scare off Paramount’s prequel A quiet place: first day after a race that was closer than expected.

Moreover, Vice-Versa 2 celebrates crossing the billion dollar mark in worldwide revenue in record time for an animated film, i.e. 19 days. Directed by Kelsey Mann, the sequel introduces a whole new generation of emotions that are brought to the heart of the story when the story’s young heroine, Riley, becomes a teenager. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust don’t really know what to feel when faced with the arrival of Anxiety, Envy, Boredom and Embarrassment.

Amy Poehler leads the voice cast that also includes Maya Hawke, Kensington Tallman, Liza Lapira, Tony Hale, Lewis Black, Phyllis Smith, Ayo Edebiri, Lilimar, Grace Lu, Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green, Adele Exarchopoulos, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan, Paul Walter Hauser and Yvette Nicole Brown.

A quiet place: first day also has reason to celebrate after posting the franchise’s best opening weekend with $53 million, well ahead of an expected $40 million-plus debut. The prequel’s performance is particularly impressive given that franchise creator John Krasinski didn’t direct this time around; Emily Blunt also didn’t star.

Instead, Michael Sarnoski (Pig) was brought to the bar Day onebased on a story he and Krasinski came up with together. Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn star in the $70 million picture, which is enjoying generally rave reviews and a B+ CinemaScore, a good grade for a horror picture. The 18-24 demographic is fueling the film, along with an ethnically diverse audience. It has also taken over many Imax and premium big-screen theaters Inside Out 2which is now in its third weekend.

The film directed by Krasinski A quiet place was a sleeper hit at the 2018 box office when it opened to $50 million despite virtually no dialogue. A Quiet Place: Part 2released theatrically on Memorial Day in 2022 while the box office was still in recovery mode from the COVID-19 pandemic, posted a four-day holiday gross of $57 million, including $47 million over the three-day weekend.

Day one continues the June box office rebound initiated by Sony Bad Boys: Ride or Die and cemented by Inside Out 2.

Third at the national box office behind Upside Down 2 And Day one This weekend there was Kevin Costner’s expensive $100 million western, Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1. The film bit the dust with an estimated opening of $11 million (overseas figures were not immediately available).

Horizon is undoubtedly one of the biggest curiosity factors of the summer after Costner left behind a lucrative gig on Taylor Sheridan’s hit series Yellowstone and invested tens of millions of his own money to make his decades-long passion project a reality with four period Western films.

The hope was that Horizon The film might have struck a chord with older men in middle America. A B- grade on CinemaScore and mediocre reviews certainly didn’t help its cause.

Warners agreed to distribute and market the film for a fee in the United States. Costner—who has been a tireless promoter of the film—put up $38 million of his own money, while two mystery investors also chipped in with equity. The rest of the budget came from selling foreign rights with the help of sales company K5 International, which premiered the film at the Cannes Film Festival.Horizon opens in many markets this weekend).

Horizon: An American Saga: Chapter 2 is coming out soon, on August 16, in one of the most unusual distribution schemes in Hollywood history. Costner also financed the film’s marketing. Horizon.

Bad Boys 4 I almost did as much as Horizon in its fourth weekend, earning $10.3 million to rank #4. The film’s domestic total is $165.3 million.

Hindi movie Kalki rounded out the top five with $5-6 million.

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