{"id":9454,"date":"2025-09-08T09:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9454\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:34:08","slug":"box-office-conjuring-last-rites-stuns-with-series-best-83-million-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9454\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: \u2018Conjuring: Last Rites\u2019 Stuns With Series-Best $83 Million Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites<\/a>\u201d has resurrected the box office, collecting a sensational $83 million in its first weekend of release.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a new opening weekend record for Warner Bros.<\/a> and New Line<\/a>\u2019s \u201cConjuring\u201d universe, supplanting the benchmark held by 2018\u2019s spinoff \u201cThe Nun<\/a>\u201d with $53.8 million. Among other achievements, it\u2019s the best start this year for a horror movie (above May\u2019s \u201cFinal Destination: Bloodlines<\/a>\u201d with $51.6 million) and the third-largest for the genre in box office history.<\/p>\n

Heading into the weekend, independent tracking services suggested that \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites<\/a>\u201d would debut to $50 million or $60 million. However, pent-up demand to go to the movies (there hasn\u2019t been a new blockbuster in weeks), as well as great word-of-mouth and goodwill toward the franchise, sent the ticket sales into the stratosphere. Reviews were mixed, but that rarely makes a difference for the genre of horror. Patrick Wilson<\/a> and Vera Farmiga<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites\u201d has resurrected the box office, collecting a sensational $83 million in its first weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":["post-9454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}