Box Office Week: Us debuts at #1 to a massive $70.2M, the biggest debut ever for an original horror film.

RankTitleDomestic Gross (Weekend)Worldwide Gross (Cume)Week #Percentage ChangeBudget1Us$70,250,000$86,950,0001N/A$20M2Captain Marvel$35,021,000$910,298,8353-48.5%$152M3Wonder Park$9,000,000$39,677,3042-43.2%$100M4Five Feet Apart$8,750,000$32,761,0642-33.7%$5M5How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World$6,533,000$488,052,6305-29.6%$129MNotable Box Office StoriesUs - It seems that despite having a title that is impossible to Google (and also to torrent in the near future) the much anticipated second feature from Jordan Peele opened to a massive #1 with $70.2M. That's the biggest opening ever for an original horror film and is the third highest horror opening overall only falling below It ($123.4M) and Halloween '18 ($76.2M). If that wasn't enough, Is is actually the biggest opening for an original live action film since Avatar in 2009.Us (cont.) - That's pretty damn remarkable for just the second feature from a director, let alone an original IP with a wild premise. This opening definitely speaks to where Peele is culturally as he jumped from hit sketch comedian to major influencer with Get Out's $250M box office run and eventual Oscar win. This combined with a well advertised Twilight Zone remake with Peele in the Rod Serling role as showrunner/host means the man is very present right now and people are very invested in him as a brand. It's perhaps no surprise then that Us more than doubled the $33.3M opening of Get Out, but now the question is will it maintain?Us (cont.) - Review wise the film scored similarly good reviews to Get Out but Us scored worse on Cinemascore, a B rating to the A- of Get Out. Now it should be noted that for horror a B is actually pretty solid, as many acclaimed horror films like The VVitch and Hereditary got a C or D rating. But it does show that perhaps the more surreal and less obvious themes of Us means it's not the same kind of crowd pleaser as Get Out. And let's not forget that Get Out had incredible word of mouth, with it dropping just 15% on its second weekend and dropped less than 40% for 7 straight weeks. Already we are seeing a difference as Get Out actually gained on its first Saturday and dropped very little on Sunday while Us had drops on both of those days.Us (cont.) - But of course we can't even consider the most drastic drop until we actually get to next weekend, although Us does face tough competition with Shazam which is coming in with excellent reviews as well. Whatever sophomore slumps this film may or may not have it's still another critical darling that far outperformed its $20M budget and if Peele continues to play in this scale he will certainly have massive control and influence for years to come. So now the question is what will be the next pronoun named horror hit after the massive success of It and Us. A remake of Them? A film version of You? My new terrifying possessive pronoun horror movie trilogy: Mine, Yours, and Ours?Films Reddit Wants to FollowThis is a segment where we keep a weekly tally of currently showing films that aren't in the Top 5 that fellow redditors want updates on. If you'd like me to add a film to this chart, make a comment in this thread.TitleDomestic Gross (Weekly)Domestic Gross (Cume)Worldwide Gross (Cume)BudgetWeek #A Star is Born (2018)$354,982$215,181,496$433,481,496$36M25Bohemian Rhapsody$350,378$215,904,214$889,125,690$52M21Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse$452,955$189,868,008$370,909,737$90M15Aquaman$413,038$334,548,294$1,146,648,294$200M14The Wandering Earth$73,409$5,855,535$697,382,937$50M8Notable Film ClosingsTitleDomestic Gross (Cume)Worldwide Gross (Cume)BudgetThe Mule$103,804,407$166,604,407$50MAs always r/boxoffice is a great place to share links and other conversations about box office news.Also you can see the archive of all Box Office Week posts at r/moviesboxoffice.My Letterboxd: https://ift.tt/2Q79jjT via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2Yl3XTn