{"id":43440,"date":"2018-04-08T20:51:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T00:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=43440"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:26:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:26:27","slug":"a-quiet-place-makes-some-noise-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/08\/a-quiet-place-makes-some-noise-at-the-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"A QUIET PLACE Makes Some Noise At The Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/quiet-place.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/quiet-place-678x340.jpg\" alt=\"a quiet place\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/quiet-place.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/quiet-place-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The thriller <strong>A Quiet Place<\/strong> took the top honors at the domestic box office this weekend pulling in an estimated $50 million including Thursday night previews.<\/p>\n<p>The John Kraskinski-directed film surged well past expectations that landed in the mid-$30 million range in part to strong word of mouth &#8211; it has a B+ rating from audience pollster CinemaScore &#8211; and an impressive 97% Rotten Tomatoes score.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Spielberg&#8217;s ode to 1980s and 90s pop culture nostalgia, <strong>Ready Player One<\/strong>, slipped to number two on the box office charts in its second weekend. The adaptation of Ernest Cline&#8217;s 2011 novel brought in another $25 million, bringing its domestic total to $96.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>The comedy <strong>Blockers<\/strong>, also opening this weekend, was the third highest grosser with an estimated $21.4 million in domestic ticket sales. It is possible that that figure could have been higher but with <strong>A Quiet Place<\/strong> breaking out of just the traditional horror film demographic for its audience, may have siphoned off some ticket buyers who would have gone for the R-rated comedy.<strong>Blockers<\/strong> also had a solid CinemaScore &#8211; a B &#8211; and a solid rating of 83% on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Actor-turned-director John Kraskinski&#8217;s horror film debuted at the top of the domestic box office chart for the weekend.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/08\/a-quiet-place-makes-some-noise-at-the-box-office\/\" title=\"A QUIET PLACE Makes Some Noise At The Box Office\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[9745,9746,8154],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-a-quiet-place","9":"tag-blockers","10":"tag-ready-player-one"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43440"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=43440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}