Jordan Peele’s New Film ‘Nope’ Debuts At No. 1 With $44 Million Jordan Peele’s new film Nope, the science-fiction thriller starring Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer, topped the weekend box office in North America with its $44 million debut, Variety reported Sunday (July 24). In the film, Kaluuya, Palmer and Steven Yeun star in a tale about uncovering video evidence of a UFO terrorizing the population of a rural mountain town. Peele says there’s much more than what meets the eye in this film. The Associated Press reports that Nope opened in 3,785 theaters in the United States and Canada. It got off to a strong start over the weekend, earning $6.4 million from Thursday previews and $19.3 million by the end of Friday. Nope had a $68 million production budget, not accounting for marketing and promotion costs. #culturecreators #wecreateculture #jordanpeele #nopemovie #kekepalmer