The film — which stars Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams, and follows a black man and his white girlfriend on a visit to her family’s home that takes a downright evil turn — brought in over six times its $5 million budget at the close of its first weekend in theaters, with its box office earnings totaling $30.5 million after playing in 2,781 theaters.
This makes for a stunning debut for Peele on multiple levels: It’s his first directorial effort, and a break in genre from the comedy audiences have come to expect from the Key and Peele star. (No night hags were involved in the making of this scary story, by the way.)
Given that audiences seem to love Get Out as much as the critics do, chalk this up to one massive win — and a sign that we need more Peele-helmed thrillers, and ASAP.
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