Pray for Poitrot: The Nun II squeaks past A Haunting In Venice in tight box office race
As we move from summer to fall, two spooktacular franchise entries claim the top of the box office
Aux News The Nun
As our beloved Mr. Autumn Man prepares to pull his gray sweater and plaid shirt from his vintage steamer trunk, horror movies and who-dun-its posing as such begin to fill up the box office top 10. The latest entry in the Conjuringiverse, The Nun II, and Kenneth Branagh’s new mustache-twirling Poirot adventure, A Haunting In Venice, each brought in roughly $14.5 million this weekend. However, the most current estimates on Box Office Mojo and The Numbers put The Nun II slightly ahead with $14.7 million to Venice’s $14.5 million.
A post-summer slowdown is typical for the box office, especially considering the surprisingly lively past few months. However, some medium-priced movies prove that maybe spending $300 million on a Flash isn’t the quickest way to profit. Working off a reported $70 million budget Equalizer 3 pulled in another $7 million this weekend and brought its three-week domestic total to $73 million. Meanwhile, Focus Feature’s My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 added another $4 million to its two-week domestic gross of $18 million. While Barbie closed out the top five and shoveled another $3 million onto its $629 million domestic haul, the Hindi action thriller Jawan made $2.4 million in less than a thousand theaters. Jawan has currently made $12 million domestically.
Led by Barbie and Oppenheimer, summer holdovers, including Blue Beetle, Ninja Turtles, and Gran Turismo: Based On A True Story, litter the top 10. But the “Barbenheimer” double feature remains the biggest box office story of the year. Greta Gerwig’s pink phenomenon is now the 11th highest-grossing domestic release, with a worldwide total of $1.4 billion, making it the highest-grossing movie based on a toy and the highest-grossing comedy ever. Adding to this summer’s theme of proving conventional box office wisdom of the last decade wrong, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour movie about science conversations brought its worldwide total to $912 million. Oppenheimer is now the highest-grossing biopic in history and will likely cross the billion-dollar mark in the next few weeks.
Here’s the top 10 (per Box Office Mojo):
- The Nun II
- A Haunting In Venice
- The Equalizer 3
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
- Barbie
- Jawan
- Blue Beetle
- Gran Turismo: Based On A True Story
- Oppenheimer
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
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Pray for PoitrotSigh….
Who prays for the trots after eating poi?
And this isn’t even Barsanti…
I had poitrot once, but my doctor gave me an ointment and it cleared right up.
Over two days later, and that’s still in the headline.Not that anyone should be surprised.
Pray for PoitrotYou all fucking suck, and whatever you are paid, you don’t deserve it.
Does ChatGPT get paid now?
It’s one thing to make all these errors in the first place, but the nearly 0% rate of anything ever being corrected is what drives me up the fucking wall
I hope Dame Agatha haunts them and forces them to watch The Mouse Trap forever!
Or makes them read one of her crappy late career novels where she just dictated them.
They’ve got this copy-editing thing down to a T.
The nun squeaks
Pray for poutine
If Oppie makes a billion I’m gonna go ballistic. That seems so incomprehensible to me that a film like that could even come close to that number, it gives me somewhat hope for cinema.
Really? It’ll just prove once again that people will go see the movies they’re told to see.
Thats not a power Nolan tends to have outside of Batman. Dunkirk wasn’t like that.
Dunkirk didn’t have Oppenheimer’s marketing.
Only about $88 million to go.
This is what the kids call a “mid-off”
I wish Haunting in Venice had done better, but it’s not necessarily the end of Branagh’s Poirot films. Death on the Nile had a lower opening box office gross than this last year, and while $137 million against a $100 million budget is a failure, if Haunting in Venice makes it to $130-140 million against its current $60 million budget I’d consider that a modest success (especially since its stars couldn’t get out there promoting it due to the strike). It will help that the next four domestic box office weekends are a bunch of nothing movies and Saw X. I bet we get another Poirot film, but with a strict budget of $50-60 million again.