Box Office - 'A Quiet Place: Day One' Opens To Franchise-Best $53M Weekend

Paramount's Lupita Nyong'o-led prequel earned $98.5 million in its global debut.

Paramount, Platinum Dunes and Sunday Night’s A Quiet Place: Day One scared up a rousing $53 million in its domestic debut weekend (and $98.5 million worldwide). That is above both A Quiet Place ($50 million in 2018/$59 million adjusted) and A Quiet Place Part II ($47.5 million Fri-Sun – $50 million adjusted and $57 million over the Fri-Mon Memorial Day 2021 weekend). That also means that the trio’s opening Fri-Sun *average* is (sans inflation) $50 million, with a consistency that would make the Despicable Me/Minions franchise blush. Speaking of which, when a spin-off opens higher than the “genuine article” flicks, think Puss in Boots in 2011, Deadpool in 2016 and both Venom and The Nun in 2018, that’s a sign that the franchise has inherent value and/or that the filmmakers made intelligent choices in making this prequel/origin story an event unto itself.