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A Quiet Place: Day One Box Office Breezes Past Major Domestic Milestone, Prequel Close To Double Its Budget (screenrant.com)

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A Quiet Place: Day One just achieved a major milestone at the box office. Led by Lupita Nyong'o, rather than previous stars John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, the movie follows Nyong'o's terminally ill Sam as she desperately tries to survive the invasion at the beginning of the Quiet Place timeline. The movie has enjoyed immense success at the box office, having earned $52.2 million in its opening weekend alone, which is nearly its entire $67 million budget.

In its fourth week at the box office, Deadline reports that Day One crossed another major milestone after taking the fifth spot in the weekend box office. With an estimated $5.9 million domestic total this weekend, the prequel has earned a total of $127.4 million in the domestic market. It has crossed the vaunted $125 million total and is just $7 million away from doubling its budget among domestic audiences alone.

Despite having a stronger start than the rest of the franchise, A Quiet Place: Day One's box office take has slowed in the weeks since its opening. It debuted to a massive $53 million, which was $5.5 million more than Part II and approximately $3 million more than the 2018 movie. Since then, however, Day One has proven to lack the longevity of other franchise entries, with its slowing domestic total potentially not matching the previous two movies. It is currently $33 million behind Part II and $61 million behind the original.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The problem with Furiosa on that front is that so many of the cast appear in Fury Road that there is little jeopardy, as you can tell if a character lives of dies as soon as they appear and thr script did nothing to subvert that.

Yep! Easily the weakest aspect of the film. I was actually surprised at just how much of the film's setting and characters overlapped with Fury Road and how poorly it was done or managed. And I liked the film. Immortan Joe, for instance, was a let down of a portrayal compared to Fury Road while Dementus never hit the same heights as Immortan did in Fury Road.

While liking the film and being happy to have seen it ... my final critical take was affirmed watching the credits which are full of snippets from Fury Road ... I'm betting that the whole production of the film was too self conscious about being in Fury Road's shadow and that being set right in the same set and setting as Fury Road assured it'd haunt the film, as it did in its release and audiences' response to the film. Shame really, a whole new story in that world could have slapped.