Jordan Peele's Us More Than Doubled Get Out's Opening Weekend

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By Anthony Gramuglia

Published Mar 24, 2019

Jordan Peele's second film, Us, is already a horror-hit, having doubled the opening of Get Out -- and then some.

Jordan Peele has topped himself. The opening weekend forÂ UsÂ grossed more than twice as much as his Academy Award winning first film,Â Get Out.Estimates from Exhibitor Relations Co. on Twitter indicateÂ Us has earned $70 million in its first weekend.Â With an estimated budget of $20 million, Us has already grossed triple -- almost quadruple -- its budget.Â Get Out, in comparison, opened to $33 million in 2017 and was made for $4.5 million.Â Get Out ultimately earned $255 million in the worldwide box office, with $176 million domestically. This is in part due to how well the film performed weekend-to-weekend. Although there's no guarantee that Us will out-gross Get Out by the end of its theatrical run, a first weekend this strong certainly increases its chances of doing so.RELATED: Jordan Peele's Us Cost Lupita Nyong'o 'A Whole Lot'

UsÂ has also bested a number of recent R-rated horror films, includingÂ The Nun ($53 million domestic opening, $117 million domestic total) and A Quiet Place ($50 million domestic opening, $188 million domestic total). However, it is still slightly behind the opening weekend ofÂ Halloween ($76 million opening, $159 million domestic total) and it's far behind current championÂ IT ($123 million domestic opening, $327 million domestic total).

In theaters now, Us is written, directed and produced by Jordan Peele. The film stars Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Anna Diop, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Kara Hayward, Tim Heidecker and Shahadi Wright Joseph.

(viaÂ Box Office Mojo)