Los Angeles, July 25 : Actor-comedian-filmmaker Jordan Peele’s latest science-fiction thriller ‘Nope’ has topped the US box office with its $44 million debut.
Although the ticket sales were slightly behind projections of $50 million and fall in between the results of Peele’s first two films, 2017’s ‘Get Out’ (which opened to $33 million) and 2019’s ‘Us’ (which opened to $71 million), reports ‘Variety’.
The film demonstrates the director’s popularity at the movies and marks a strong start for an original, R-rated horror film.According to ‘Variety’, ‘Nope’ stands as the highest opening weekend tally for an original film since ‘Us’ debuted more than three years ago.It includes Quentin Tarantino’s star-studded ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’, which started with $41 million in July 2019.
‘Nope’ was made on a budget of $68 million, which is significantly more than ‘Get Out’ (with its slender $4.5 million budget) and ‘Us’ (with its $20 million budget).So the movie will require a little more coinage than Peele’s past films to turn a profit.’Variety’ further states that ‘Nope’ will not open at the international box office until mid-August.
The film reunites Peele with ‘Get Out’ star Daniel Kaluuya – and adds Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun to the mix – in the story of siblings who live on a gulch in California and attempt to uncover video evidence of a UFO.
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