'A Quiet Place' bounces back to No. 1, beating 'I Feel Pretty' at box office

Lindsey Bahr | The Associated Press

Show Caption Hide Caption John Krasinski, Emily Blunt star in horror thriller 'A Quiet Place' A family of four must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival. If they hear you, they hunt you.

LOS ANGELES – It's another weekend of buzz vs. pure star power at the box office as the word-of-mouth horror sensation A Quiet Place finds itself neck-and-neck again with Dwayne Johnson's Rampage. This time, buzz had the slight advantage.

Studio estimates on Sunday have placed A Quiet Place in first with $22 million, and Rampage in second with $21 million, but it's possible those numbers may shift when final results are tallied Monday.

Still, John Krasinski's A Quiet Place continues to be a mini-phenomenon. With a $17 million production budget, A Quiet Place has grossed $132.4 million from North American theaters in three weeks. Rampage, too, is down only 41% domestically in its second weekend and continues to rake in the dollars globally. The film boasts a worldwide tally of $283 million, and Johnson has continued using his social-media accounts to hype the action film and thank audiences.

"I never take success like this for granted. Global success like this means so much," Johnson posted on his Instagram account Saturday night. "I'm not a Marvel movie. It's not Star Wars. Rampage may as well have been called 'Dwayne Johnson and his albino gorilla friend' because it's such an obscure video game. ... Thank you guys so much."

The staying power of both overshadowed newcomers like Amy Schumer's I Feel Pretty and the sequel to the 2001 cult comedy Super Troopers, both of which nevertheless managed to find their own niche audiences, despite largely negative reviews.

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I Feel Pretty grossed an estimated $16.2 million — a little less than half of what Schumer's Trainwreck opened to in July 2015. Unlike Trainwreck, Schumer didn't write I Feel Pretty, which is about an insecure woman who gets a life-changing confidence boost after a head injury. The concept became somewhat divisive and the subject of a fair amount of scrutiny.

"She's a force and that's not going to change," says comScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian. "She's always going to push the envelope. Sometimes that will bring big box office, sometimes it won't."

The partially crowd-funded Super Troopers 2, meanwhile, leaned into its April 20 opening and scored a fourth-place $14.7 million opening weekend for the Broken Lizards comedy troupe.

Fifth place went to the horror hit Truth or Dare with $7.9 million in its second weekend, while Paula Patton's thriller Traffik launched in ninth with $3.9 million.

Box office for the year remains down about 2.4% from 2017, but that will change next week.

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"We're going to see a huge turnaround in the box-office fortunes with Avengers: Infinity War," Dergarabedian says.

The film is tracking to make more than $200 million in its first weekend in theaters, leading some experts to wonder whether the superhero pic could have the highest opening of all time, beating out even Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Final numbers are due Monday.