Fueling box-office rebound, 'Quiet Place' opens with $58.5M

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. John Krasinski s thriller sequel “A Quiet Place Part II” opened over the Memorial Day weekend to a pandemic-best $48.4 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Paramount Pictures “A Quiet Place Part II " which was on the cusp of opening in March 2021 before theaters shut, was the first big film this year — and one of the only larger budget COVID-era releases beside Christopher Nolan's “Tenet” — to open exclusively in theaters. But the strong returns for the theater-only “A Quiet Place Part II" are telling, says Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore He called it a “pivotal weekend” for the movie industry that proved predictions of the movie theater's demise “flat-out wrong.” “That ‘Quiet Place Part II’ did so well makes a strong case that a theatrical-first release for a big movie is the way to go,” Dergarabedian said. Rich Gelfond, chief executive of IMAX, where “A Quiet Place Part II” earned $4.1 million domestically, called the film “the first domestic release this year to cross the threshold from ‘great opening weekend given the pandemic’ to ‘great opening weekend, period.'"