Despite reviews that were decidedly mixed (or should that be ‘split’?), M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass proved to be a hit at the box office this past weekend, with the Unbreakable and Split follow-up opening to $89 million worldwide.
Produced on a budget of just $20 million, Glass grossed $40.5 million across the Friday to Sunday period in North America, the third biggest Martin Luther King Day weekend behind Ride Along ($41 million) and American Sniper ($89 million).
That number gives Bruce Willis his biggest ever domestic opening weekend (beating out G.I. Joe: Retaliation by just $7k) and also just edges out Shyamalan’s previous film Split, which debuted to $40 million back in 2017). The first chapter of the Eastrail 177 trilogy, Unbreakable, managed $30.3 million back in 2000.
Internationally, Glass added a further $48.5 million from 55 markets, where it is tracking 13% up from Split. That film went on to gross $278.5 million globally, followed by Unbreakable on $248.1 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.
