New Stephen King Movie Cracks The Author’s Highest-Grossing Adaptation Chart At Global Box Office


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The new Stephen King adaptation The Monkey is climbing a major box office chart. The movie, which was directed by Longlegs‘ Osgood Perkins, is adapted from the 1980 short story of the same name and follows twins Bill and Hal (played by Christian Convery as children and Theo James as adults) as they are tormented by a cursed monkey toy that causes people around them to die in creatively bloody ways. The Monkey release kicked off the weekend after Valentine’s Day and debuted at No. 2 behind the holdover hit Captain America: Brave New World.

Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, The Monkey is projected to add another $6.2 million at the domestic box office by the end of its third weekend in theaters. Even without its international numbers for the weekend, which won’t be calculated until Sunday, this brings the movie’s cumulative global box office total to $31.1 million.

In addition to pushing it past the $30 million milestone, this total will see The Monkey leaping onto the list of the highest-grossing Stephen King movies of all time worldwide, at No. 18 according to The Numbers‘ chart. It has swiftly surpassed even iconic titles such as 1994’s The Shawshank Redemption ($28.8 million), 1976’s Carrie ($25.9 million), and 1983’s Cujo ($21.1 million).

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Source: Deadline & The Numbers




The Monkey

6/10

Release Date

February 19, 2025

Runtime

98 Minutes

Director

Osgood Perkins

Writers

Osgood Perkins

Producers

John Rickard, Natalia Safran, Ali Jazayeri, Chris Ferguson, Fred Berger, Giuliana Bertuzzi, James Wan, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, John Friedberg, Jason Cloth, David Gendron, Michael Clear, Jesse Savath, Peter Luo, Dave Caplan




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