The Nun II takes its vow to the top of the weekend box office
The latest entry in The Conjuring universe scares off the competition pretty easily
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It looks like the Conjuring universe is back in the habit of box office domination, because The Nun II pretty easily claimed the top spot at the domestic box office this weekend (sorry, everyone is legally obligated to make a hacky “habit” pun whenever nuns are mentioned). The film made $32 million, enough to beat last week’s top film Equalizer 3 (which made $12 million and has $61 million after two weeks) and fellow newcomers My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 ($10 million with a pretty wide rollout, which isn’t great) and Jawan ($6 million with a pretty small rollout, which is impressive). These newcomers were all at least buzzy enough to bump Barbie down to the fifth spot, putting it close to missing the top 5 for the first time since its debut eight weeks ago.
Down in the bottom half of the top five, we have Blue Beetle (falling a ways from last week, but it has $63 million total after four weeks, so that’s not terrible), Gran Turismo, Oppenheimer, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, and Bottoms. That last one stings a bit, since it’s still expanding to more theaters but perhaps not fast enough to account for the steady box office drop-off it’s also getting. Distributor Orion Pictures tried to do the thing where you start it small and let it build up hype as you take it to more and more theaters, but it doesn’t seem to have worked here unless it expands again and taps into a previously unknown market for modern teen sex comedies.
Elsewhere in the charts, Sound Of Freedom doesn’t appear to be playing anywhere anymore, so now Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One has a chance to rally and try to rectify the injustice of its box office. Come on, Ethan!
The full top 10 is below, from Box Office Mojo.
- The Nun II
- The Equalizer 3
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
- Jawan
- Barbie
- Blue Beetle
- Gran Turismo
- Oppenheimer
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
- Bottoms
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I generally like the Conjuring universe even if the real people involved in the conjuring were actually charlatans…the only problem is that the movies are a never-ceasing advertisement for religion…hopefully this one less so?
It’s never bothered me (though I was raised with a religion I came to hate), but I know what you mean; I feel that way about the Exorcist franchise. But those films, it seems to me, generally take themselves pretty seriously, while The Conjuring seems more like it’s just trying to have a bit of spooky fun. I certainly wasn’t surprised when I learned that William Peter Blatty was himself a Catholic. And while I can’t say I know much about the origins of The Conjuring, I do know that the first two were written by the twins from the 1980’s BMX movie RAD, which…also didn’t surprise me that much.
I think part 2 was the worst offender, I actually liked The Devil Made Me Do It so maybe it was just because 2 wasn’t as good after 1 was so good. But it really is indoctrination, it’s not just fun, the movies are ads for catholicism (and, fittingly, about people who in real life were liars). Also William Peter Blatty made The Ninth Configuration so I can’t stay mad at him.
Still haven’t seen The Devil Made Me Do It (or, for that matter, The Ninth Configuration). Maybe this Halloween season I’ll catch up!
It’s too bad a movie called Tops wasn’t #1 this week.
I tried to watch the original Conjuring. A boring Amityville knockoff. I hate to sound like ‘whatever’ but even The Blair Witch had most of us laughing when it came out. The last decent horror films I’ve seen are Peele’s and Hereditary was awful as a horror should be, but I’m absolutely sick of the ‘mental illness horror’ tropes.
Mary Shelley knew who the real monsters were.
Mary Shelley knew who the real monsters were.Mothers, the grave of whom upon which you lose your virginity?
Victor, who presumed to create life as a woman could where he could not. This will always be the masculine argument. They will always lose. But they will probably continue to destroy until they win.
“But they will probably continue to destroy until they win.”
Oh, get fucked.
“I tried to watch the original Conjuring.”
Oh, you did?
“A boring Amityville knockoff.”
Oh, so you didn’t.
“I hate to sound like ‘whatever’ but even The Blair Witch had most of us laughing when it came out.”
You. Don’t. Like. Horror. Movies.
“Mary Shelley knew who the real monsters were.”
Yeah, people who go out of their way to shit on things that other people like.
Fuck. Offffffffffff.
i hope the Nun actress gets all the money.
Even a tired joke is better if you don’t italicize/explain it.