‘The Monkey’ Just Passed Stephen King’s Beloved Adaptation at the Box Office

The Monkey is one of the biggest horror movies at this moment, as everyone is talking about the highly-praised adaptation of Stephen King’s story. Osgood Perkins took it upon himself to bring the cult story to the screen and based on the reactions, he’s done a pretty good job.

And while The Monkey will not surpass Perkins’ previous films, Longlegs, at the box office, the numbers we have confirm that it has just surpassed arguably the best Stephen King adaptation of all time and a true classic of 20th-century cinema.

The film in question is, as you might have guessed, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, a classic of horror cinema and one of Kubrick’s best and most famous films. And while the psychological horror starring Jack Nicholson is now regarded as a classic, it had a very rough start, earning just over $47 million with a roughly $20 million budget.

And while the financial situation at the time was very different and the number would rise significantly if we consider inflation (to almost $200 million!), it is still noteworthy that The Monkey managed to surpass such a classic in terms of absolute numbers, as the movie is closing in on the $50 million mark.

As said, in relative terms, The Monkey is nowhere near The Shining, but the movie was made with half of what was Kubrick’s budget, so the number is definitely significant in that aspect, which is why we have decided to report on this.

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