‘Night School’ graduates with USD 28 million

USA - Class is in session, my friends. Night School opened with full marks during the weekend, earning USD 28 million from 3,010 locations. Director Malcolm D. Lee‘s comedywhich stars Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish-topped the opening of Jon M. Chu‘s Crazy Rich Asians, which you may remember went on to absolutely dominate the box office for several weeks on its way to USD 200 million globally. Night School reteams Lee with producer Will Packer and Universal, the minds behind the surprise hit and Haddish’s breakout role Girls Trip. Night School isn’t earning nearly the amount of critical acclaim as that film but audiences seem to be loving it, with the movie sitting pretty with an A CinemaScore.

Landing in second with a solid USD 23 million take is Smallfoot, Warner Bros. animated comedy featuring the voices of Channing Tatum, Danny DeVito, James Corden, and one more time, in case you forgot Zendaya. The film follows a tribe of Yetis who encounter a human being for the first time. Almost half the people who showed up for Smallfoot‘s were under the age of 25, but fellow kidflick The House with a Clock In Its Walls still finished out the weekend in third place with USD 12.5 million, a 53 percent drop from its opening weekend.

The Nun still has a prayer, landing in fifth place with USD 5.4 million. In its fourth weekend, Corin Hardy’s Gothic spookshow beat out the debut of fellow horror film Hell Fest, which opened this weekend with USD 5 million. That’s a bit tepid, sure, but not exactly something to scream about for CBS Films; Hell Fest was reportedly budgeted at about USD 5 million.

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