Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out, has the entire movie world buzzing — and for good reason.
The inventive horror film, which stars Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Lil Rel Howery and LaKeith Stanfield, raked in $30.5 million over the weekend at the box office, according to the figures made available to Variety. The tally is especially impressive when one factors in the long shadow Oscar Weekend cast over the entire universe of film.
“It’s entertaining, it’s thought-provoking, and it’s subversive,” Universal’s domestic distribution chief Nick Carpou told Variety. “I have seen [Get Out] play with audiences. They enjoy themselves and they’re telling their friends.”
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Those audiences also included the members of the Hip Hop community as both Chance The Rapper and Snoop Dogg (along with HipHopDX) hosted their own screenings with guests that ranged from Lil Yachty, Ty Dolla $ign, Christina Milian and several members of the cast.
Chance loved the film so much that he actually bought out all the showings at a hometown Chicago theater and urged people to tell a friend to tell a friend to go check it out.
The generous act from the newly minted Grammy Award-winner prompted horror movie fan Twista to speak up:
And for The Game to do the same thing for his hometown of L.A.
The film’s good reputation among fans (an A- on Cinemascore) actually preceded its acclaim among critics. Last week, Get Out joined the likes of Citizen Kane and Singing in the Rain as one of the few films to earn a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Sometimes it’s best to just listen to Childish Gambino.
I can’t wait for this month to be over….
Why these niggaz ain’t do this for Birth of a nation?
because black people don’t watch those movies. just like no black people saw Moonlight, shit like that is only consumed by self-loathing white liberals.
Why are all the white ppl commenting so angry about this? You own every other movie that exists. Move on. Lmao
lol positioning this movie as “black history month” shit just makes it seem insanely racist. rappers are dumb as hell.
hey frank i cant wait tell u leave our site
I remember when al bundy was a proud white shoe salesman
It’s funny how ever article on this site turns into a race war
Agreed. Fuck all of the white supremacist trolls. I wish that HHDX did some sort of moderation for this site rather than letting their asses run rampant.
1984 is real Narel, be cafreful what you wish for my black brother
I hate all races equally! so fuck you all 🙂
When is white history month?
Dumbass.
Haven’t you realized that every month is white history month? The whole planet is forcibly bombarded with the unending nonsense of white culture.
Living veterans have one day of recognition, veterans who have passed have one day, the pilgrims and native americans have one day, all mothers have one day, all have fathers have one day. Latins have zero days, Asians have zero days, Pacific Islanders have zero days. And the blacks have a whole month, 28 days. Add up all other days where different people are remembered or celebrated and you are not even close. Explanation?
Reparations my friend
For what?
None of the blacks today are slaves, none of the whites today owned slaves.
They don’t need reparations.