The Monkey
A newStephen Kingmovie has become a major hitting for the author . King is well known for his works in the horror genre , many of which have been adapted into pic . Quite a few of these have found over-the-top critical succeeder , include 1976’sCarrie , which has a Certified Fresh score of 94 % on Rotten Tomatoes and was nominated for two Academy Award . Other striking adaptation includeThe Shining(83%),Misery(91 % , one Oscar win ) and the non - horror titlesStand by Me(92 % , one Oscar nominating address ) andThe Shawshank Redemption(89 % , seven Oscar nominations ) .
On top of his critical success , quite a fewStephen King movieshave become loge office hit . The most notable of these are 2017’sItand its 2019 follow - upIt : Chapter 2 , which gross $ 701 million and $ 467.6 million worldwide respectively , becominghis first and second highest - grossing adaptations of all time . Altogether , half a dozen King adaptations have grossed more than $ 100 million at the box role , includingThe Green Mile($290.7 million ) and1408($131.3 million ) .
The Monkey Is One Of Stephen King’s Highest-Grossing Movies
It Has Continued To Leap Up The Chart
The Monkey is climbing a major boxwood office chart . The young movie , which was write and directed byLonglegs ' Osgood Perkins , is adapted from the Stephen King unforesightful storey of the same name and stars Theo James as twins Bill and Hal Shelburn , who are torment by a doomed scalawag toy that kill people around them in grisly , inexplicable way . TheMonkeyreleasekicked off on February 21 , premiere at No . 2 on the domestic chart for the weekend , behind the soph weekend ofCaptain America : Brave New World , with an 3 - daylight first appearance gross of $ 14 million.
Sweet Tooth ’s Christian Convery plays immature Bill and Hall inThe Monkey .
PerDeadline , as of Saturday morning , The Monkeyis projected to earn a 3 - mean solar day total of $ 2.5 millionat the domesticated boxwood function by the destruction of its quaternary weekend in theaters . This will bestow its accumulative domestic sum to $ 35.2 million . According to the chart publish byThe Numbers , this will be more than enough for the flick to rise the chart of Stephen King ’s highest - grossing domestic theatrical release of all meter , landing at No . 15 between 2003’sDreamcatcher($33.7 million ) and 2013’sCarrie($35.3 million ) .
What This Means For The Monkey
It Will Rise At Least One More Place
WhileThe Monkeyis reaching the poop last of its discharge , theOsgood Perkins moviestill has the chance to continue climb the chart ofStephen Kingadaptations . It is just $ 0.1 million aside from go past 2013’sCarrie , but bet on how it perform , it could potentially rise pastThe Running Man($38.1 million ) andThe Boogeyman($43.2 million ) to hit No . 12 , thoughthe flick crack the Top 10 seems unlikely , as it would have to outgross the $ 47.9 million earned by 2004’sSecret Window .
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