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.
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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.
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Sometimes it’s best to just listen to Childish Gambino.
