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| Box Office -‘A Quiet Place’ Prequel Makes Loud |
This weekend, Paramount's 'A Quiet Place: Day One' and Kevin Costner's big-budget Western 'Horizon: An American Saga' will compete with box office phenomenon 'Inside Out 2'.
Paramount's prequel A Quiet Place: Day One debuted at the American box office with a franchise-high $6.8 million in Thursday previews.
That's a remarkable start, especially considering this is the first entry not directed by franchise founder John Krasinski or starring Emily Blunt (Krasinski also appeared in the first).
Instead, Michael Sarnoski (Pig) directed Day One, based on a narrative he and Krasinski created together. Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn co-star in the sci-fi horror thriller. The film's production costs were $70 million before marketing.
Heading into the weekend, monitoring predicted that the third episode will open to $40 million or more. Based on high reviews and audience scores, there's lots of possibility for growth, especially given the June box office has been on a roll since Bad Boys: Ride or Die and Inside Out 2 came out earlier in the month.
Among previous 2024 summer pictures, the preview number outperformed The Kingdom of the Apes' $6.6 million, which opened to $58 million, and Bad Boys: Ride or Die's $5.7 million, which launched to $56.5 million.
A Quiet Place, which earned $4.3 million in previews, was a surprising hit at the 2018 box office, opening at $50 million despite having almost no dialogue. A Quiet Place: Part II, which opened on Memorial Day in 2022 while the box office was still recovering from the pandemic, grossed $57 million over four days, including $47 million over three days. The sequel generated $4.8 million in previews.
Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter One, Kevin Costner's $100 million Western, has a less promising outlook. The picture failed to gross $1 million in previews, earning $800,000 in ticket sales. At the same time, elderly moviegoers—the film's target demographic—do not rush out to watch a movie.
Horizon is without a doubt the biggest curiosity factor of the weekend considering Costner left behind a lucrative gig on Taylor Sheridan’s hit show Yellowstone and put up tens of millions of his own money to make his decades-long passion project a reality with four period Western movies.
Costner's picture is expected to begin around the $10 million to $12 million range, a concerning start for a three-hour feature that cost $100 million to make. Many box office analysts anticipate the film will outperform in America's heartland and earn more.
Warners agreed to distribute and sell the film for a fee in the United States. Costner, who has diligently marketed the film, invested $38 million of his own money, and two mystery investors also contributed shares. The remaining funds were raised by selling foreign rights through sales company K5 International, which screened the picture at the Cannes picture Festival. (Horizon launches in a number of markets this weekend).
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Horizon: An American Saga: Chapter Two opens in short order, on Aug. 16, in one of the more unusual distribution schemes in Hollywood history. Costner also put up most of the marketing money for Horizon.
Not even Quiet Place: Day One appears to have a chance of taking the box office crown from Pixar and Disney's Inside Out 2, which is poised to become the first film since Barbie about a year ago to reach the billion-dollar mark at the global box office. It is projected to surpass the milestone on Sunday or Monday as it concludes its third weekend, faster than any animated picture in history.
Frozen II, from Pixar’s sister division Walt Disney Animation Studios, is the top-grossing animated film of all time, at $1.45 billion globally. The last animated film to cross $1 billion was Illumination and Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie in 2023, while the last Pixar title to do so was Incredibles 2 in 2019.
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