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[sfran43]

 

Edited April 7, 2019 by sfran43

[Matthew]

Wow.. 56% drop for US. 

 

I thought I was in minority who were disappointed by cliché 3rd act. 

Edited April 7, 2019 by Matthew

[cdsacken]

Probably the divisive ending. I still haven't even managed to see it yet. 

[sfran43]

 

[Matthew]

Armie Hammer is the king of speciality market. 😁😁😁

[sfran43]

 

[sfran43]

 

[Ipickthiswhiterose]

While I think that Us may have been slightly impacted by the increasing percentage of casual observers being frustrated with the last act I do think that it's far more that really this is just a case of burning through the market quickly, and that it's not a film to necessarily watch multiple times. 

 

Hotel Mumbai has done pretty decently for a movie that's not really timed well and has limited pull.

[cdsacken]

Pet Sematary hurt too. It did well and was near direct competition.

[Brainbug]

While Us does have some short legs, the numbers itself are fantastic for the horror genre. How many original movies make 150M+ DOM in this day and age?

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[CJohn]

I was not expecting US to go under 200M. It might end under Get Out now.

Edited April 7, 2019 by CJohn

[cdsacken]

3 minutes ago, CJohn said:

I was not expecting US to go under 200M. It might end under Get Out now.

Good chance of it. Still a massive success. Hope Lupita has a nice backend deal

[TalismanRing]

3 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

While Us does have some short legs, the numbers itself are fantastic for the horror gerne. How many original movies make 150M+ DOM in this day and age?

Original in that it borrows quite heavily from an old Twilight Zone episode

[Brainbug]

Just now, TalismanRing said:

Original in that it borrows quite heavily from an old Twilight Zone episode

 

Well lets say Us is "technically" an original movie

[filmlover]

37 minutes ago, Matthew said:

Armie Hammer is the king of speciality market. 😁😁😁

[ChipDerby]

4 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

Original in that it borrows quite heavily from an old Twilight Zone episode

 

Literally every film borrows something from something. Keep stretching.

[Premium George]

4 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

Original in that it borrows quite heavily from an old Twilight Zone episode

Peele is pretty great at taking old ideas and making new movies. Get Out was same. Not a bad thing for me.

[terrestrial]

For some first drop... impressions.

Green font = estimates, they update especially the small ones to black during the weekend as the details get in.

 

https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-chart/weekend/2019/04/05

Weekend Domestic Chart for April 5, 2019

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Chart Index

 

		Movie	Distributor	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Week
-	(2)	Us	Universal	$13,813,000	-58%	3,512	$3,933	$152,395,995	3
-	new	The Best of Enemies	STX Entertainment	$4,500,000		1,705	$2,639	$4,500,000	1
-	(7)	How to Train Your Dragon: T…	Universal	$1,985,000	-55%	1,928	$1,030	$156,692,245	7
-	(8)	Hotel Mumbai	Bleecker Street	$1,753,789	-45%	930	$1,886	$6,371,658	3
-	(14)	The Mustang	Focus Features	$771,000	+29%	350	$2,203	$2,045,695	4
-	(10)	The Beach Bum	Neon	$494,063	-72%	1,055	$468	$3,012,393	2
-	new	The Public	Universal	$279,294		265	$1,054	$279,294	1
-	(16)	Apollo 11	Neon	$201,700	-51%	187	$1,079	$8,086,131	6
-	(19)	Green Book	Universal	$136,000	-49%	213	$638	$84,764,211	21
-	new	Amazing Grace	Neon	$111,214		8	$13,902	$207,548	1
-	(29)	Transit	Music Box Films	$61,039	-22%	55	$1,110	$612,482	6
-	new	Peterloo	Amazon Studios	$30,427		3	$10,142	$30,427	1
-	(61)	The Chaperone	PBS Distribution	$26,520	+118%	13	$2,040	$40,198	2

[Celedhring]

Just now, TalismanRing said:

Original in that it borrows quite heavily from an old Twilight Zone episode

 

Must be the one with the girl at the bus stop that's afraid a double is going to replace her? That is a brilliant one.

 

You can borrow concepts and still be original, though. There are dozens of doppelganger stories out there.

[TalismanRing]

7 minutes ago, ChipMunky said:

 

Literally every film borrows something from something. Keep stretching.

Yes, such a  stretch - such slight borrowing - so tangential.  Like Stepford Wives to Get Out. 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/arts/television/jordan-peele-twilight-zone.html

 

Quote

 

The woman in the black-and-white program on the flat-screen TV was teetering on the brink of madness, delivering a disjointed monologue about parallel worlds and the possibility that our own physical duplicates might walk among us. As the camera hovered above her troubled face and the decades-old audio crackled with the sound of a persistent rainstorm, Jordan Peele sat captivated on a nearby couch. “Beautiful shot,” he said with quiet awe.

Here in his personal office, Peele, the celebrated comedian turned Academy Award-winning horror filmmaker, was watching an old episode of “The Twilight Zone,” the classic science-fiction anthology series that he is helping to revive.

On a recent March morning, Peele had, with some calculation, chosen a 1960 installment called “Mirror Image,” from the show’s debut season. It stars Vera Miles (“Psycho”) as a woman convinced she is being followed by her exact double, and Martin Milner (“Route 66”) as the man who doesn’t believe her until it is too late.

Peele has pointed to “Mirror Image” as an inspiration for his new film, “Us,” in which Lupita Nyong’o and her family are besieged by murderous doppelgängers. He also admires the episode, written by the “Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling, for its ability to elicit jump-scares without relying on supernatural beasts or extraterrestrial beings. In his favorite tales of terror, Peele told me, “I love human beings as the monster, as the horror.”