The Nun II box office assortment: Despite poor critiques, horror film earns $32.6 million in North America in 1st weekend

The Nun II box office

AP’s Mark Kennedy wrote in his one star overview that it is “a movie that seems destined to pound a nail into this franchise’s undead coffin” and audiences gave it a C CinemaScore. But it hardly issues: Horror is probably essentially the most reliably critic-proof style, a minimum of on the subject of opening weekend.

The Michael Graves-directed sequel starring Taissa Farmiga and Storm Reid fell far wanting the debut for the primary film ($53.8 million), however it’s nonetheless a stable launch. The Nun films are a part of the so-called Conjuring universe, which now has 9 movies, and $2.1 billion in box office, to its identify. The sequel additionally performed properly internationally, choosing up $52.7 million from 69 markets (Mexico being the strongest with $8.9 million) and boosting its world debut to $85.3 million.

“To have a horror universe is really powerful in terms of the revenue generating potential,” stated Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. “It’s a great bet that Warners made on the horror moviegoing experience never waning.”

And there are lots of extra scary films on the calendar by means of the autumn together with A Death in Venice, which opens subsequent week, Saw X on Sept. 29 and The Exorcist: Believer on Oct. 6.

Other movies in North America

The Nun II bumped Denzel Washington’s Equalizer 3 to second place in its second weekend. The Columbia Pictures launch added $12.1 million, bringing its home grosses to $61.9 million and its worldwide earnings to $107.7 million.

Third place went to a different new film: The third installment of Nia Vardalos’s My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which arrives 21 years after the primary film turned an enormous sleeper hit incomes some $369 million in opposition to a $5 million manufacturing funds. Released by Focus Features in 3,650 theaters, the third film earned an estimated $10 million, overwhelmingly pushed by feminine audiences (71%) who had been 25 or older (83%).

Vardalos wrote, directed and stars in Greek Wedding 3, which brings again John Corbett and takes the gang to Greece. AP’s Jocelyn Noveck wrote in her overview that the film, which has gotten principally poor marks, is “like a thrice-warmed piece of baklava.”

The Indian revenge thriller, Jawan, starring Shah Rukh Khan, opened in fourth place with $6.2 million from solely 813 places. It was launched in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Khan, a Bollywood famous person, additionally led one other box office sensation this yr, Pathaan, which has made $130 million worldwide.

Barbie, which involves VOD on Tuesday, dropped to No. 5 after 8 triumphant weeks with $5.9 million from 3,281 places. The Warner Bros. film has now made $620.5 million domestically.

Estimated ticket gross sales for Friday by means of Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, in keeping with Comscore. Final home figures will likely be launched Monday.

1. The Nun II, $32.6 million.

2. The Equalizer 3, $12.1 million.

3. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, $10 million.

4. “Jawan, $6.2 million.

5. Barbie, $5.9 million.

6. Blue Beetle, $3.8 million.

7. Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story, $3.4 million.

8. Oppenheimer, $3 million.

9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, $2.6 million.

10. Bottoms, $2.1 million.The