Kong” hovered just below $100 million for some time before finally scraping together the final $220,000 needed to cross the coveted box office milestone.
Paramount’s nearly silent sequel “A Quiet Place Part II,” which debuted over Memorial Day weekend once a greater number of theaters had reopened, smashed that benchmark in 15 days.
That’s notably more money than its franchise predecessor, 2019’s “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” grossed in pre-pandemic times.