After more than a year of delay, Paramount's A Quiet Place Part II made its presence known this weekend with a thundering $48.38 million at the North American box office. That's only $2 million shy of the first movie's weekend opening in early April 2018. As Part I only cost $17 million to make, while the sequel carries a much larger price tag of $61 million. Nevertheless, the horror sequel (written and directed by the returning John Krasinski) still made a ton of noise by setting a record for the biggest three-day domestic opening of the COVID-19 pandemic, unseating the previous $32 million milestone achieved by Warner Bros.'