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‘Captain America: Brave New World’ To Hold No. 1 With $30M+ As ‘The Monkey’ Looks To Swing $17M Opening – Box Office Preview
Oz Perkins' 'Longlegs' follow-up 'The Monkey' opening to $17M in the face of 'Captain America: Brave New World's $30M+ second weekend at the box office.
The pic’s trailer blew up with 109M views as Deadline first told you, an anomaly for an indie horror movie, not to mention NEON has been cleverly stunting this movie with a funeral session church premiere, Hollywood Cemetary fan screenings, eight-foot tall Monkey statues in multiplex lobbies (which takes six people to assemble) all leading into Fandango declaring the title the best horror ticket pre-seller year-to-date (and there’s been a lot in less than two months) ahead of Heart Eyes, Wolf Man, Companion, and Presence. Wan has a knack for taking inanimate objects and imbuing them with deep, unsettling lore, making them iconic horror symbols, read Annabelle, Dead Silence and M3GAN. When his parents, Scott (Zachary Levi) and Teresa (Meghann Fahy), learn that Austin is both autistic and has brittle bone disease, they initially worry for their son’s future.
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