{"id":121356,"date":"2025-09-07T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121356\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:03:07","slug":"second-biggest-global-horror-opening-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121356\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Biggest Global Horror Opening Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites<\/a>\u201d towered over the worldwide box office with $187 million, cementing by far the best start for the occult-titled franchise. It\u2019s also the second-biggest global debut in history for a horror film, behind only 2017\u2019s \u201cIt\u201d with $190 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tTicket sales for \u201cLast Rites,\u201d which put early projections to shame, include a remarkable $104 million internationally and $83 million domestically. In terms of overseas returns, the latest \u201cConjuring\u201d overtook 2019\u2019s \u201cIt: Chapter Two\u201d ($92 million) as the largest overseas debut for a horror film. Top individual territories include Mexico with $13.3 million, the United Kingdom with $8.8 million, Brazil with $7.7 million and India with $6.7 million.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites\u201d was especially popular on Imax screens, which scared up $14.3 million globally to land as the company\u2019s top debut ever for a September release. Domestically, the scary movie earned $9.4 million from those premium locations, ranking as Imax\u2019s biggest opening for the horror genre.<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by franchise veteran Michael Chaves, \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites\u201d stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who attempt to vanquish a demon from a family\u2019s home. James Wan, who created the property,\u00a0and\u00a0Peter Safran\u00a0returned as producers. The \u201cConjuring\u201d universe, which includes spinoffs such as \u201cThe Nun\u201d and \u201cAnnabelle,\u201d is the highest-grossing horror franchise in history with more than $2.3 billion.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis entry cost $55 million to produce and has already become the latest theatrical winner for Warner Bros. following a remarkable streak of \u201cA Minecraft Movie,\u201d \u201cSinners,\u201d \u201cFinal Destination Bloodlines,\u201d \u201cF1: The Movie\u201d (which the studio distributed for Apple), \u201cSuperman\u201d and \u201cWeapons.\u201d The studio\u2019s rebound comes after a downtrodden stretch with commercial losers like \u201cJoker: Folie a Deux,\u201d \u201cMickey 17,\u201d and \u201cThe Alto Knights.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere at the box office, \u201cWeapons\u201d crossed the $250 million mark globally with $108 million from international markets and $143 million from North America. Those are impressive returns for original horror, and even better \u2014 they\u2019ll make for scary-good profit margins for Warner Bros. since the sleeper hit carries a modest $38 million price tag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites\u201d towered over the worldwide box office with $187 million, cementing by far the best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[57905,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-121356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-conjuring-last-rites","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}