'A Quiet Place Part II' Is First Film to Pass $100 Million at U.S. Box Office amid COVID Pandemic

A Quiet Place Part II.Photo: Paramount Pictures

A Quiet Place Part IIhas reached yet another box-office milestone.

Over the weekend, the largely silent Paramount Pictures thriller made a ton of noise in theaters as the film surpassed $100 million in U.S. ticket sales, becoming the first to do so since the beginning of theCOVID-19 pandemicover a year ago.

A Quiet Place Part IIis now sitting at around $108 million domestic and $80 million internationally,Varietyreports.

Meanwhile, the sequel toJohn Krasinski’s 2018 thrillerA Quiet Placefirst made headlines afterearning a whopping $48 million domesticallyat the box office during its opening weekend in May.

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Emily Blunt inA Quiet Place Part II(2021).Jonny Cournoyer

StarringEmily Bluntas Evelyn,A Quiet PlacePart IIsees the surviving Abbott family members venture away from their farmhouse into the outside world in search of fellow survivors.

Blunt’s real-life husband Krasinski, 41, returned as Lee for flashback scenes after his character died at the end of the first film.

Noah Jupe andMillicent Simmondsalso star as the older Abbott kids Marcus and Regan, whileCillian MurphyandDjimon Hounsouare new additions to the cast.

Although thefilm was delayedfrom its original release date of March 2020, leading to a new era of streaming debuts, the sequel has stuck to a movie-theaters-only policy, and will become available on Paramount+ 45 days from its release.

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Most of the film’s reviews were positive, and it currently holds a 91% rating onRotten Tomatoeswith an Audience Score of 93%.

During a recent appearance onJimmy Kimmel Live!, Blunt, 38, joked that the COVID-19-related delay ofA Quiet Place Part IIwas the"best marketing tool ever"after promoting the film for over a year and building anticipation.

According to reviews, the sequel is “bigger, faster, louder, and more typical for the horror blockbuster genre,” wrote Nick Allen ofRogerEbert.com. “Even if this sequel remains firmly in the shadows of the original, I wanted part three as soon as it was over.”

A Quiet Place Part IIis in theaters now.

source: people.com