'PEARL' Slashes Into Theaters With A $3.1 Million Opening Weekend
The X-Universe that Ti West and Mia Goth are currently involved in and creating for A24 is on a roll and literally KILLING the competition. Over the weekend, ‘PEARL’ the second film in the three film X-universe, did gangbusters at the box-office. We also learned that the third film in the trilogy ‘MAXXXINE’ would be coming sooner than later.
Pearl opened in 2,935 theaters across the United States over the weekend, the 1918-set prequel scaring up $3,124,600 and coming in #3 on the weekend’s overall box office chart.
For the sake of comparison, Ti West’s X debuted to $4.2 million back in March of this year, that film also released in roughly the same amount of theaters here in the States.
X went on to make $11.7 million domestically, and $14.4 million worldwide.
What’s really cool about X and Pearl is that both films were filmed and completed before X was released in theaters which means that the folks over at A24 had a lot of faith in Ti West to deliver some good content and he sure has in spades! We can tell you that the production cost of these films so that means that A24 made a calculated risk with these new horror flicks and will indeed profit from them if the numbers continue they way they are now.
This month’s new prequel movie is set in 1918, decades prior to the 1970s-set X, which was released in theaters back in March of this year. Goth played the dual role of Pearl, a senior citizen, and Maxine, the film’s final girl. The film ends with Maxine killing Pearl, who along with her husband Howard had been brutally slaying Maxine’s friends throughout the movie.
But where did Pearl’s story begin? “Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide, in the stunning, technicolor-inspired origin story of X’s iconic villain.”
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