In Spain we will still have to wait a bit to be able to see ‘nope!’the third film of jordan peele, but in the United States it was released a few weeks ago. His success there is indisputable, since it has already exceeded 100 million dollars in grosses, which has allowed Peele to achieve a record that no other director had achieved after more than 100 years of cinema history.
The record in question
The record in question is that Jordan Peele has managed to rraise more than 100 million dollars in the United States with his first three films, all of them in real image counting in addition original stories -‘Let me out’ did 176 and ‘We’ got 175-. The only other live-action filmmaker who had achieved something similar is JJ Abramsbut in his case it was with ‘Mission Impossible 3’, ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Super 8’.
If we turn to animation, there would also be a few examples, almost all of them Pixar directors. The most representative case is probably that of John Lasseterthat with the five films he has directed (‘Toy Story’, ‘Bugs, a miniature adventure’, ‘Toy Story 2’, ‘Cars’ and ‘Cars 2’) managed to exceed that number of collection. But even he needed sequels, and in some cases he co-signed the movies with other people.
There are other directors who recently came close to what Peele has achieved now. For example, Judd Apatow he surpassed 100 million dollars in the United States with ‘Virgin at 40’ and ‘Lío Embarrassing’, but “failed” with ‘Make me laugh’. For its part, the Farrellys they fell short with ‘What a pair of idiots’, their second feature film, but they did earn enough with ‘Two dumbs so dumbs’ Y ‘Something happens with Mary’while Adam McKay did it with ‘The reporter’his first film, but ‘Pasados devueltas’ and ‘Broken Brothers’ did make it.
Other notable cases are those of Michael Baywhich did not succeed because ‘Two rogue policemen’ -“only” entered 65 million there-, steven spielberghis ‘Loca Evasión’ was his first film for the big screen and it was just over 7 million, or george lucas“punished” by the little more than 2 million of ‘THX 1138’.
Obviously, this figure does not take into account any type of adjustment linked to inflation. If you want to see all the movies that made more than 100 million dollars in the United States, take a look at this list. That may seem like an unimpressive number, but not even 800 titles have made it so far. And that someone has chained something like this with original stories invites us to have a little more optimism about a future that seems doomed to be even more populated by sequels, reboots and prequels.