Taking a second bite of the apple, especially in a potential horror franchise, is always a tricky gambit. But, as follow-ups go, John Krasinski’s A.
After more than a year of delay, Paramount s
A Quiet Place Part II made its presence known this weekend with a thundering $48.38 million at the North American box office. That s only $2 million shy of the first movie s weekend opening in early April 2018. As
Part I only cost $17 million to make, while the sequel carries a much larger price tag of $61 million.
Nevertheless, the horror sequel (written and directed by the returning John Krasinski) still made a ton of noise by setting a record for the biggest three-day domestic opening of the COVID-19 pandemic, unseating the previous $32 million milestone achieved by Warner Bros.