- Box Office
World Box Office, June 7-13, 2021
A Quiet Place Part II roared and prevented In the Heights from soaring to number one in the recent domestic box office weekend race. Despite early predictions that it would lord over the turnstiles, Jon M. Chu’s film adaptation of Lin Manuel-Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Tony Award-winning musical settled for second place.
Instead, John Krasinski’s sequel to his horror drama took the top spot and, in the process, even became the first Hollywood movie since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic to cross the $100 million mark in North America. The Emily Blunt-led film, which debuted number one and slipped to second rank on its sophomore weekend, took back the crown with $11.65 million and a domestic cumulative total of $108.9 million.
In the Heights, which was expected to bow at the top and earn $20 million, only managed to gross $11.41 million.
But the Hollywood trades, citing In the Heights’ good reviews and Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 95 percent, held out hope that the musical, starring Anthony Ramos, Melissa Barrera, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Jimmy Smits, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Olga Merediz, Gregory Diaz IV and Daphne Rubin-Vega, might have legs and gain momentum throughout the summer.
Also opening below expectations in the domestic market was Will Gluck’s Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway which took third place with $10.4 million.
The sequel, which boasts a voice cast that includes James Corden, Elizabeth Debicki, Lennie James, Margot Robbie, Rose Byrne, David Oyelowo and Domhnall Gleeson, was released much earlier in the international market and performed solidly. So there was expectation that the animation adventure-comedy would also do well in the U.S. and Canada.
After emerging as the surprise box office champ last weekend, Michael Chaves’ The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It dropped to number four with $10.02 million. Cruella, with Emma Stone as Cruella de Vil in Craig Gillespie’s live-action prequel, stayed on the top five with $6.7 million.
The underperforming Spirit Untamed, directed by Elaine Bogan and Ennio Torresan and voiced by Jake Gyllenhaal, Isabela Merced and Marsai Martin, drew $2.5 million and ended up on the sixth berth.
Rounding out the top 10 were Deon Taylor’s The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 ($1.06 million), Guy Ritchie’s Wrath of Man ($615,000), Michael Lembeck’s Queen Bees ($328,300), and Darren Lynn Bousman’s Spiral ($305,000).
In the overseas market, The Conjuring 3 was still on top with $23.4 million. Cruella followed with $17.6 million. A Quiet Place 2 ranked third with $16 million. Peter Rabbit 2 grabbed $10.7 million.
Justin Lin’s F9 picked up $6 million more in international territories. The latest Fast & Furious installment, featuring Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez, has now earned $268.9 million in offshore territories. China contributed a staggering $212.2 million to that international tally.
In the TV streaming race, Jupiter’s Legacy, a superhero drama series anchored by Josh Duhamel which was recently canceled by Netflix, ironically topped Nielsen’s Top 10 SVOD chart.
Hulu (with The Handmaid’s Tale in second place) and Amazon (with The Underground Railroad at eighth) prevented Netflix from dominating the entire Top 10 streaming chart for the week of May 10 to 16.
The other Netflix shows in the chart were The Upshaws, Selena: The Series, The Circle, Shadow and Bone, The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Madness, Castlevania and The Crown.