We’re back! It’s been a nice, long holiday break, and we’re getting right back into things. 2017 has been a strange year, hasn’t it? Here’s hoping 2018 will be a great one. Did you guys get up to much over the break? We caught up on some of our to-watch list, including Get Out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuvnrgXWHoM
Strangely, the film didn’t get that many awards at the Golden Globes, but Jordan Peele’s directorial debut is a delight, and the most profitable film of 2017, with a 630% ROI:
TheWrap based its estimate on combined production budget and marketing costs. According to Box Office Mojo, Get Out was made with a budget of only $4.5 million, and has grossed a massive $252,434,250 worldwide.
Get Out is the debut film from Jordan Peele, half of the duo behind the former Comedy Central smash skit show “Key and Peele.” The film’s success is also impressive given that it had no A-list stars; it’s male lead was Daniel Kaluuya, a British actor largely unknown in America. The film also featured “Girls” actress Allison Williams and Bradley Whitford, best known for his role in “The West Wing.”
But the film seems to have landed in the right place at the right time. In an interview with the New York Times, Peele said the idea behind the film was “to combat the lie that America had become post-racial.” The New Yorker’s Anthony Lane described the result as “an all-out attack on a rainbow.”
The film was produced by Blumhouse, the group behind other low-budget horror films like The Purge and Paranormal Activity. As it turns out, The Wrap calculates that Blumhouse also produced the second-most-profitable movie of the year, M. Night Shyamalan’s Split, which had a 610% ROI.
Catch it if you haven’t, and we’re looking forward to more from Jordan Peele.