Nicolas Cage achieves his best performance at the US box office in 15 years with Longlegs
The horror film had a thunderous debut this weekend, across the Atlantic, with nearly $23 million in revenue. It’s been a long time since Nicolas Cage has experienced that.
He has made a lot of films over the last 15 years (about fifty!). But never Nicolas Cage had not found success at the US box office (not counting his voice appearances in animated hits like The Croods Or Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse). Until Longlegs.
This weekend, Osgood Perkins’ horror film starring Maika Monroe earned $22.6 million in three days. A record opening for a low-budget film (around $20 million) boosted by a clever viral promo. It’s the biggest opening in the history of Neon, the independent distributor behind Longlegs. And therefore the biggest start for a film Nicolas Cage Since Predictionsin 2009. Alex Proyas’ sci-fi blockbuster opened at the time to $24 million in the US and ended its career at $190 million worldwide. The last real success of Nicolas Cage At the movie theater.
If Longlegs debuted well above expectations, the film only took third place at the US box office, still dominated by animation. Despicable Me 4 retains the number 1 spot, grossing $44.6 million in its second weekend, for a total of $211.1 million overseas. The animated feature is approaching $440 million in worldwide revenue, and the franchise Despicable Me has exceeded 5 billion dollars cumulatively (in 6 films).
Inside Out 2 follows on the second step of the podium. The biggest hit of 2024 added 20.8 million in the USA for its fifth weekend and has already totaled 572.6 million dollars domestically and 1.35 billion dollars worldwide.
A Quiet Place: Day 1 takes fourth place and already has $116.2 million at the US box office. The prequel has even crossed the $200 million mark at the global box office.
Finally, we will note the small flop of To the Moon. The historical romantic comedy set in NASA, between Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson, only earned $10 million for its opening weekend. A low attendance for a film with a budget of $100 million, financed by Apple Original Films.
