It looks like Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions is set to deliver the first box office smash of 2019, with Deadline reporting that M. Night Shyamalan’s superhero thriller Glass is tracking a four-day domestic opening of $75 million over the Martin Luther King weekend.
The film, a follow-up to Unbreakable and Split and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and James McAvoy, is on course to score the second-biggest MLK weekend after Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, which debuted to $107.2 million back in 2015.
2000’s Unbreakable grossed $95 million domestically on its way to $248.1 million worldwide, while last year’s Split proved to be a surprise hit, earning $138.2 million domestically and $278.4 million worldwide from a production budget of just $9 million.
Shyamalan’s biggest domestic opening came back in 2002, with Signs launching with a three-day weekend of $60.1 million.
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Following the conclusion of Split, Glass finds Dunn pursuing Crumb’s superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men. This riveting culmination of his worldwide blockbusters will be produced by Shyamalan and Jason Blum.
Glass will see the return of Bruce Willis (David Dunn), Samuel L. Jackson (Elijah Price), Spencer Treat Clark (Joseph Dunn) and Charlayne Woodard (Mrs. Price) from Unbreakable and James McAvoy (Kevin Wendell Crumb) and Anya Taylor-Joy (Casey Cooke) from Split, while Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story) also stars. The film is slated to hit cinemas on January 19th 2019.
