‘Cuckoo’ Clocks Into Top 10 With ‘Longlegs’ Still Spinning In Neon Scarefest – Specialty Box Office
deadline.comCuckoo is looking at a $3+ million opening, not a Longlegs debut ($22 million) but on target for Neon’s Alpine-set horror starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens.
R-rated Cuckoo by Tilman Singer opened at 1,503 theaters for 9th place at the domestic box office. Schafer is great as troubled 17-year-old Gretchen, who reluctantly leaves her American home after her mother dies to live with her father and his new family just as they move to a resort in the beautiful German Alps.
Owner Herr König (Stevens, menacing fun) takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister, while Gretchen herself is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret Longlegs by Osgood Perkins is no.
10 in week 5 with an estimated $2 million on 1,310 screens for a hefty $71 million gross. It’s sticking around amid a steadier stream of studio wide releases and tentpoles. Holdovers: Didi from Focus Features and A24’s Sing Sing continue to attract audiences.
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