![]() ![]() The Nun II bumped Denzel Washington’s Equalizer 3 to second place in its second weekend. ![]() “It’s a great bet that Warners made on the horror moviegoing experience never waning.”Īnd there are many more scary movies on the calendar through the fall including A Death in Venice, which opens next week, Saw X on Sept. “To have a horror universe is really powerful in terms of the revenue generating potential,” said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. The sequel also played well internationally, picking up $52.7 million from 69 markets (Mexico being the strongest with $8.9 million) and boosting its global debut to $85.3 million. The Nun movies are part of the so-called Conjuring universe, which now has nine films, and $2.1-billion in box office, to its name. ![]() The Michael Graves-directed sequel starring Taissa Farmiga and Storm Reid fell far short of the debut for the first film ($53.8 million), but it’s still a solid launch. But it hardly matters: Horror is perhaps the most reliably critic-proof genre, at least when it comes to opening weekend. The sequel to the 2018 hit, released in 3,728 theatres by Warner Bros., topped the box office in its first weekend in North American theatres earning an estimated $32.6-million, the studio said Sunday.ĪP’s Mark Kennedy wrote in his one star review that it’s “a movie that seems destined to pound a nail into this franchise’s undead coffin” and audiences gave it a C+ CinemaScore. Like many horrors before it, bad reviews didn’t scare off moviegoers from buying tickets for The Nun II. ![]()
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