Oscar winner Jordan Peele is back with his latest horror film, Nope, which didn’t quite impress casual audiences as it did critics, but still managed a booming box office opening.
Nope, which could only be described as Peele’s own personal take on Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, took advantage of the minimal competition and abducted $44M from the box office.
Peele’s Get Out opened to $33M and ended its run with $255M globally, while his sophomoric effort, Us, opened to $87M and ended with <checks notes> $255M also.
The aforementioned films both scored an A- CinemaScore from audiences while Nope, which is indeed more of a slow burn, received a B, oddly on par with Candyman, Halloween Kills and The Forever Purge.
Predicting the box office post-pandemic isn’t as easy as it was before, and it’s unlikely Nope will reach the same $250M global milestone as his first two efforts, but this is still considered a monstrous hit for the beloved horror filmmaker.
In the film, “Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.”
Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) reteams with Peele on the mysterious movie, with the cast also including Steven Yeun (“The Walking Dead,” Mayhem) and Keke Palmer (“Scream”). Michael Wincott (The Crow), Barbie Ferreira and Brandon Perea also star.
Meagan Navarro was a fan of the film, writing in her review that “Jordan Peele takes on the summer blockbuster with soaring spectacle and scathing subtext.”
What did you all think of Nope?