Record for Without a Sound: Day 1 at the US box office, Kevin Costner crashes

While the monstrously silent saga got off to an excellent start, the great western Horizon failed to convince Americans.

Another delightful weekend for cinemas in the United States: after the success of Bad Boys 4 And Vice-Versa 2it's the turn of Without a Sound: Day 1 to achieve an unexpectedly excellent start at the US box office.

With $53 million in its opening weekend, A Quiet Place: Day 1 breaks the franchise launch record, while Without a sound had started at $50 million in 2018 and Without a sound 2 at $48 million (in 2021, during the COVID period). Impressive for a sequel in the form of a prequel, a variant that often struggles to convince audiences. Without John Krasinski, without Emily Blunt (but with Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn) the saga confirms that it is well established, while here it told the beginning of the alien invasion in New York. A Quiet Place: Day 1 has already reached 100 million worldwide.

However, the film does not dislodge Inside Out 2 across the Atlantic. For its third weekend, the Pixar sequel continues to dominate the US box office, with an additional $57 million for a whopping $469 million total in the US since its release. It is the biggest “domestic” success since Barbie (in 2023). Vice-Versa 2 is already Pixar's 3rd biggest success at the US box office, with a good chance of passing Finding Dory (486 million) then The Incredibles 2 (608 million) to finish number 1!

The big loser of the weekend is called that Kevin Costner. The first film in the saga Horizon, with a budget of 100 million dollars, collected the small sum of 11 million dollars in a vast fleet of 3,334 cinemas (released July 3 in France). If the western takes third place in the ranking, fans of the series Yellowstone clearly did not come to the rooms. Problematic because the sequel, Horizon: Chapter 2 is due to hit the big screen in two months (September 11 in France). Let us recall that Kevin Costner has put more than $38 million of his own money into the Wild West biblical project, which he hopes to eventually make into four feature films.