'A Quiet Place: Day One' made a loud entrance at the domestic box office with a franchise-best $6.8 million in Thursday previews. Heading into the weekend, tracking suggests that the prequel film starring Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn will open to $40 million-plus. There's plenty of room for upside, based on strong reviews and audience scores. The sci-fi horror-thriller cost $70 million to produce before marketing.
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00:00A Quiet Place Day 1 made a loud entrance at the domestic box office with the franchise
00:08best $6.8 million in Thursday previews.
00:12Heading into the weekend, tracking suggests that the prequel film starring Lupita Nyong'o
00:16and Joseph Quinn will open to $40 million-plus.
00:20There's plenty of room for upside based on strong reviews and audience scores.
00:24The sci-fi horror-thriller cost $70 million to produce before marketing.
00:28At the film's New York premiere, Nyong'o told The Hollywood Reporter how she brought
00:32her character to life while having limited dialogue.
00:34As human beings, we're always communicating with more than our words.
00:38So for us as actors, when we're reading a script, we're always looking for what's happening
00:42between the lines.
00:43So then you just get rid of the dialogue and all you have is what's between the lines.
00:47And there's a certain kind of liberty that comes with that.
00:51Meanwhile, the outlook for Kevin Costner's pricey $100 million Western, Horizon An American
00:56Saga Chapter One is murkier.
00:59The film failed to crack $1 million in previews, instead reporting $800,000 in ticket sales.
01:04It's worth noting that older moviegoers, the film's target demo, don't tend to rush out
01:08to see a film.
01:09Men will come try you, they will take from you until you are wiped clean from this land.
01:15I'm just saying that's something you might want to keep in mind.
01:19The movie is tracking to open in the $10 to $12 million range, but many box office pundits
01:23believe the movie will overperform in America's heartland and come in higher.
01:28Costner told THR why he's so passionate about telling the story.
01:31It just speaks to me out loud and that's been my kind of guide, my North Star of anything
01:36I've done.
01:37I thought Field of Dreams was good, you know, and I thought Tin Cup was good, I thought
01:41Bull Durham was a really nice movie, and Bodyguard was a movie that wasn't going to be made.
01:46It was written 17 years earlier.
01:49No Way Out was a movie called Finish with Engines.
01:52It had been written, no one was going to make it.
01:55So when I feel like I like a movie, I feel like audiences will like it.
02:01And when I saw Horizon, I just felt strongly that the world and America in particular could
02:09go west with me and feel like they saw things in a way they'd never seen them before.
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