Nope, the latest thriller from Jordan Peele, led weekend box office sales when it first debuted in theaters.
According to Deadline, Universal’s tense horror film made a total of $44 million.
As a result, Minions: The Rise Of Gru slid to number two at the box office, closely followed by Thor: Love And Thunder, which remained in the top three.
Despite the fact that $44 million may not seem like a lot, Variety reports that it is the largest opening weekend box office haul for an original movie since Jordan’s previous smash, Us (2019).
The director also produced the 2017 thriller Get Out, which brought in about $255 million worldwide on a meager $4.5 million budget.
Intriguingly, Us, which had a budget of $20 million, made a similar sum of $255 million in theaters around the world.
The budget to produce hypnotic UFOs and extraterrestrial encounter, with Nope focusing on the extraterrestrial, increased slightly to $68 million.
According to the official synopsis, the science-fiction thriller centers on two siblings who own and operate a horse ranch on the outskirts of the California desert and “stand witness to an odd and horrifying discovery.”
