{"id":147611,"date":"2025-09-19T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147611\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:25:03","slug":"jordan-peele-produced-him-scores-2m-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147611\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Peele Produced ‘Him’ Scores $2M In Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUniversal and Monkeypaw\u2019s football horror movie Him<\/a> did $2M from previews that began at 2PM yesterday. That number is just above Lionsgate\u2019s preview take on Stephen King\u2019s The Long Walk ($1.3M) a week ago and Blumhouse\u2019s Speak No Evil ($1.3M) a year ago. Him, which stars Marlon Wayans, Julia Fox and Tyriq Withers, is expected to open in the mid teens. The Long Walk opened to $11.7M, while Speak No Evil did $11.4M in its first weekend. <\/p>\n

\n\tCritics aren\u2019t sticking around in the stands for Him at 30% on Rotten Tomatoes, and last night\u2019s audience wasn\u2019t impressed at 59%. Yikes. We\u2019ll see where this goes. Him was made for a net $27M before <\/p>\n

\n\tSony\/Crunchyroll\u2019s Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is expected to stand tall in its second weekend with a take between $14M-$21M. The movie will share Imax with Him, but hold onto PLFs. Pic\u2019s first week ends at $87.4M after a $2.6M Thursday, -26%. It\u2019s already the highest grossing anime movie of all-time at the domestic box office, having surpassed 1999\u2019s Pokemon from Warner Bros ($85.7M). Next, Demon Slayer will conquer securing $100M stateside, again, a first for anime movie in U.S.\/Canada. <\/p>\n

\n\tColumbia Pictures\u2019 Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie romance,\u00a0A Big Bold Beautiful Journey<\/a>, is not huge in its previews with $400K from Thursday early shows that began at 4 p.m. from 2737 locations. Critics had no patience for this one at 40% on Rotten Tomatoes. No audience score. Sony sees the opening at $10M, others see it much lower. <\/p>\n

\n\tTop five for the week:<\/p>\n

\n\t1.) Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle (Sony) 3,315 theaters, Thur $2.6M (-29% from Wed), Week $87.4M\/Wk 1 <\/p>\n

\n\t2.) Conjuring: Last Rites (NL) 3,802 theaters, Thurs $1.56M (-8%), Week $33.2M (-68%), Total $138.2M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n

\n\t3.) Downton Abbey: Grand Finale (Foc) 3,694 theaters, Thurs $1.38M (-16%), Week $25.3M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

\n\t4.) Long Walk (LG) 2,845 theaters, Thurs $890K (-17%), Week $16.4M, Wk 1<\/p>\n

\n\t5.) Toy Story 30th anniversary reissue (Dis) 2,375 theaters, Thurs $174K (-33%), Wk $4.4M, Lifetime cume $227.6M\/Wk 1 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal and Monkeypaw\u2019s football horror movie Him did $2M from previews that began at 2PM yesterday. That number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[65741,62844,96,4671,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-147611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-a-big-bold-beautiful-journey","tag-demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-infinity-castle","tag-entertainment","tag-him","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}