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Monday 25 March 2019
Get Out! Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ shatters records with $70.3M

By JAKE COYLE film (only the “It” remake
AP Film Writer and last year’s “Hallow-
NEW YORK (AP) — Jordan een” have surpassed it in
Peele has done it again. the genre) and one of the
Two years after the filmmak- highest openings for a live-
er’s “Get Out” became a action original film since
box-office sensation, his “Avatar” was released 10
frightening follow-up, “Us,” years ago.
debuted with $70.3 million In today’s franchise-driven
in ticket sales, according to movie world, seldom has
studio estimates Sunday. a young director been
The opening, well above such a draw. But moviego-
forecasts, had few paral- ers turned out in droves to
lels. It was the largest de- see what kind of freak-out
but for an original horror Peele could muster in his

This image released by Universal Pictures shows, from left, Evan Alex, Lupita Nyong’o and Shahadi
Wright Joseph in a scene from “Us,” written, produced and directed by Jordan Peele.
Associated Press
sophomore release. The Marvel Studios super- which more than doubled
“Peele has really crafted hero release slid to second the $33.4 million domestic
an extraordinary story that place with $35 million in its debut of 2017’s Oscar-win-
I think once again is go- third week. In three weeks ning “Get Out.” The former
ing to capture the cultural of release, it’s made $910 “Key & Peele” star’s
zeitgeist,” said Jim Orr, dis- million worldwide, and will first film as writer-direc-
tribution chief for Universal. soon become the first $1 tor, “Get Out” ultimately
“He is recognized as just an billion release of 2019. grossed $255.4 million on a
amazing talent. He crafts Other holdovers — the ani- $4.5 million budget.
films that make you think, mated amusement “Won- “Us” cost $20 million to
that are extraordinarily der Park” and the cystic make, meaning it’s already
well-acted, well-written fibrosis teen romance “Five a huge hit for Peele and
and are amazingly enter- Feet Apart”— trailed in Universal Pictures, which
taining.” third and fourth with about notched its third No. 1 re-
“Us” took over the top $9 million each in their sec- lease of the year following
spot at the box office from ond week. “Glass” and “How to Train
“Captain Marvel,” which But the weekend belonged Your Dragon: The Hidden
had reigned for two weeks. overwhelming to “Us,” World.”q
Museum is glad to finally hear:

Yes, it’s really a Van Gogh

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — ported Van Goghs around
A painting at a Connecti- the world, the Hartford
cut museum that has long Courant reported. The art-
been thought to be by Vin- work was taken out of mu-
cent Van Gogh has been seum displays and shelved.
authenticated as such by Years later, with advances
Dutch researchers. The in technology and knowl-
Wadsworth Atheneum in edge of Van Gogh, the
Hartford announced Friday museum decided to re-
that the oil painting “Vase visit the question. It was
with Poppies” has been examined initially at the
verified by researchers at Atheneum, where a digital
the Van Gogh Museum in This undated photo provided X-ray revealed an under-
Amsterdam as having been by the Wadsworth Atheneum painting that looked like a
painted by the Dutch artist Museum of Art shows a self-portrait, which added
in 1886, just after he moved painting of poppies, oil on to confidence about its
to Paris. Its authenticity canvas. The painting at the authenticity. The museum
was called into question in Connecticut museum that has in Amsterdam analyzed
1990 by art historian and long been thought to be by the artwork’s paint, mate-
Vincent Van Gogh has been
Van Gogh expert Walter authenticated as such by rials and style to conclude
Feilchenfeldt, who raised Dutch researchers. it was indeed done by Van
concerns about many pur- Associated Press Gogh. q