‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Heading To Franchise Record $5M+ Previews – Box Office
deadline.comParamount‘s prequel A Quiet Place: Day One is heading to a franchise record preview night between $5M-$6M, several sources inform us.
Showtimes began at 3 PM. Tonight’s figure easily ranks ahead of the $4.3M made by the first movie in 2018, and the $4.8M made by Quiet Place: Part II on its Thursday heading into Memorial Day weekend 2021, when summer kicked off for recently reopened theaters.
Those two movies were directed by John Krasinski, while the prequel is helmed and written by Pig director Michael Sarnoski. The prequel tells the story about how the ferocious aliens with the highly sensitive ears landed on Earth in NYC.
Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, and Djimon Hounsou star. Reviews are great at 86% certified fresh, though they are the lowest of the franchise to date after chapter one (96%) and chapter 2 (91%).
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