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Box Office 9 April 2018 as horror strikes in A Quiet Place

The world's strangest silent film is a smash hit, while the evil bunnies continue to munch in the money patch as audiences spurn religion.

10 Apr 2018

David Tiley

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Image: A Quiet Place

Remember how we hate horror movies in Australia? Paramount took a deep breath and put A Quiet Place out on 282 screens, scored $8558/screen and took $2.6m at the box office. Pretty good, but not the US level of success.

In the US it had the second best first weekend this year behind only Black Panther. It cost $22m to make, was expected to take $39m and actually banked $65m. It was written and directed by comic actor Jim Krasinski, who starred with Emily Blunt – they are also a family. He was the executive producer and they acquired the spec script together. It had a Superbowl extended ad.

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David Tiley

David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.