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Horror movie \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites\u201d dominated the box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $83 million according to early estimates published by Hollywood<\/a> trade<\/a> publications, easily outpacing projections to become the biggest opening for a fright film in 2025 and the seventh consecutive hit for Warner Bros.<\/p>\n Vera Farmiga, one of the stars of “The Conjuring: Last Rites,” attends the Emmy Awards in 2019.<\/p>\n FilmMagicKey Facts<\/p>\n Although Warner Bros. began the year with a series of flops, including \u201cMickey 17\u201d and \u201cThe Alto Knights,\u201d the new \u201cConjuring\u201d film became its latest release to gross more than $40 million at the box office on their opening weekends: following \u201cA Minecraft Movie,\u201d \u201cThe Accountant 2,\u201d \u201cFinal Destination: Bloodlines,\u201d \u201cF1,\u201d \u201cSuperman,\u201d and \u201cWeapons.\u201d<\/p>\n The most recent installment of the \u201cConjuring\u201d franchise, which began with \u201cThe Conjuring\u201d in 2013, now has the most successful opening weekend of any film in the franchise\u2014beating out \u201cThe Nun,\u201d the 2018 spinoff that grossed $53.8 million its opening weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites\u201d also became the third-biggest horror opening in domestic box office history\u2014falling short of only \u201cIt\u201d in 2017 (which grossed $123 million) and \u201cIt: Chapter 2\u201d in 2019 ($91 million).<\/p>\n How Does \u201cthe Conjuring: Last Rites\u201d Compare To This Year\u2019s Other Horror Hits?<\/p>\n Despite a less-than-stellar year<\/a> for box office sales, \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites\u201d joins one of several horror films making headlines for unexpected success. In April, \u201cSinners,\u201d the new original film from \u201cBlack Panther\u201d and \u201cCreed\u201d director Ryan Coogler, opened with $48 million after receiving high praise from audiences and critics. \u201cFinal Destination: Bloodlines,\u201d the sixth installment in its own long-running series, opened with $51.6 million in May. Finally, in August, Zach Cregger\u2019s \u201cWeapons\u201d grossed $43.5 million during its opening weekend. With an $83 million opening weekend, \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites\u201d clearly outperformed the other major horror hits for initial ticket sales. It remains to be seen if it can keep up this demand and keep outpacing the other horror hits overall. \u201cSinners\u201d proved to be a major hit in the U.S., grossing a total of $278.5 million at the domestic box office before leaving theaters, but was less of a hit internationally, grossing just over $88 million internationally for a combined $366.6 million. \u201cFinal Destination: Bloodlines\u201d took home $138.1 million at the domestic box office, but grossed more than $307.4 million worldwide. \u201cWeapons,\u201d which is still playing in some theaters, has grossed a total of $139.1 million domestically before factoring in all of this weekend\u2019s sales, according to Box Office Mojo<\/a> data.<\/p>\n Surprising Fact<\/p>\n The second biggest movie at the box office over the weekend wasn\u2019t a holdover blockbuster or a new release\u2014it was \u201cHamilton,\u201d the filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s blockbuster musical originally released for streaming on Disney+ in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The musical was filmed in 2016 and features members of the original Broadway cast. Disney announced<\/a> that it would bring \u201cHamilton\u201d to theaters earlier this year for a limited run that would feature a new prologue and interviews with cast members. \u201cHamilton\u201d grossed an estimated $9.8 million across 1,825 theaters over the weekend, Variety<\/a> reported. Its unexpected performance follows another limited release\u2014Netflix released \u201cKpop Demon Hunters,\u201d their wildly successful animated musical released on streaming in June, for a single-weekend run to gross $18 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Horror movie \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites\u201d dominated the box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $83 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5784,156,4223,12005,409,111,139,69,12004,3722],"class_list":["post-9538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-box-office","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-horror-films","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-conjuring","tag-the-conjuring-last-rites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538","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=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}