Jordan Peele's Nope Is Expected To Make More Than Get Out But Less Than Us In First Domestic Weekend
gamespot.comJordan Peele's new movie Nope comes to theaters this Friday, July 22, and it's expected to put up big numbers at the box office, but not the highest ever for the Oscar-winning director.
Nope, which is released by Jurassic World studio Universal, is projected to bring in about $50 million in the US and Canada across 3,700 theaters this weekend, according to Deadline. That would be more money than Peele's first movie, Get Out ($33.3 million) made over its first domestic weekend. However, it would be below Peele's 2019 thriller Us, which made $71.1 million over its opening weekend in the US and Canada.
The story of Nope follows rancher siblings played by Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer who witness something strange in the skies. Their neighbor, played by Steven Yeun, runs a theme park next door, and he has witnessed the mystery in the sky as well. The ranchers recruit a video team to try to document the unexplained phenomenon in the sky. Like Peele's other movies, it appears there is something brewing beyond what we've seen in the trailers, some further mystery to be revealed.
Nope is Peele's most expensive movie ever, with a budget of $68 million--far more than the budgets for Us ($20 million) and Get Out ($4.5 million).
Peele won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for 2017's Get Out.
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