\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros can get down on its knees and thank the Almighty, for alas, the studio has its seventh No 1 opener this weekend in New Line\u2019s The Conjuring: The Last Rites. Get this, it\u2019s Warners\u2019 fourth straight No. 1 opening for a horror film. We\u2019re hearing from sources that Thursday night\u2019s previews, which kicked off at 3 p.m., are heading for a saintly $7 million-$8 million. That\u2019s easily bound to be a preview record for a Conjuring franchise movie (read on), and definitely puts the Michael Chaves-directed R-rated movie from Safran Company and Atomic Monster deep into the $40M-plus Friday-Monday range.<\/p>\n
\n\tWe\u2019ll have more for you on Friday AM, but Conjuring: Last Rites previews are bigger than Sinnners ($4.7M), Final Destination Bloodlines ($5.5M), Weapons ($5.7M) and even The Nun ($5.4M); Chaves previously directed The Nun II ($3.1M). Of these, Final Destination Bloodlines and The Nun opened to north of $50M, the latter owning the biggest domestic opening in The Conjuring franchise at $53.8M. All in, the Conjuring universe including the core films and Nun and Annabelle spinoffs counts $2.3 billion at global box office, the highest-grossing horror franchise ever.<\/p>\n
\n\tNo Rotten Tomatoes audience score yet, but critics aren\u2019t thankful for Last Rites giving it a 58% Rotten, which is not far from the previous Lorraine and Ed Warren paranormal installment, 2021\u2019s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, at 56%. That sequel\u2019s grosses were siphoned from a theatrical day-and-date release on HBO Max, when Warners was employing project popcorn during a time when cinemas were recovering and reopening from Covid. Devil Made Me Do It bowed to $24.1M domestic and ended its run at $65.6M stateside, $206M worldwide.<\/p>\n
\n\tBack in May, Warner Bros opened New Line\u2019s Final Destination Bloodlines to a franchise domestic record of $51.6M, the movie becoming the top-grossing one in that horror series with north of $138M stateside and $301M worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros can get down on its knees and thank the Almighty, for alas, the studio has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270,277],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-the-conjuring-last-rites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}