JORDAN PEEL’S “US” HITS WHOOPING $150M AT THE WORLD BOX OFFICE
Joseph Omoniyi
After opening to a massive $70M in the States ($86.9M globally), in its second weekend of release, Jordan Peele‘s hit “Us” continues to bind together audiences across the world.
The Lupita Nyong’o starrer added another estimated $33.6M domestic and is now sitting at $174M worldwide. As we noted last week, Us should easily break $250M in its worldwide run.
Peele’s Oscar-winning Get Out ended its run at $176M, which Us should surpass as early as tomorrow!
The budget for Us was reportedly $20M, which means a sequel is all but guaranteed if Peele were to want to make one.
Us is set in present day along the iconic Northern California coastline and stars Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o as Adelaide Wilson, a woman returning to her beachside childhood home with her husband, Gabe (Black Panther’s Winston Duke), and their two children (Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex) for an idyllic summer getaway.
Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family.
After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway.
Us pits an endearing American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves.
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