Last Rites’ Breaks a Box Office Record for Horror Movies
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NEED TO KNOW
- The Conjuring: Last Rites set a global box office record for the biggest opening weekend for a horror movie, with $194 million, according to Deadline and Variety
- The movie’s $194 global total and $83 million at the domestic box office marked the biggest opening weekend for Conjuring franchise
- Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson reprise their roles as Ed and Lorraine Warren in the movie, which is based on the real-life couple’s investigation of a haunting in Pennsylvania in 1986
The Conjuring: Last Rites scared up a new box office record.
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as paranormal investigators Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren for the finale outing, earning an estimated $194 million worldwide on its opening weekend.
As Deadline and Variety reported on Monday, Sept. 8, that total makes the movie’s opening weekend the biggest for any horror film ever at the worldwide box office.
The Conjuring: Last Rites beat out 2017’s It to make a new worldwide record. The Stephen King adaptation previously set that mark when it made $190 worldwide in its debut.
As The Hollywood Reporter noted, Last Rites‘ opening weekend at the box office is also the best opening weekend in the franchise’s history and the seventh consecutive Warner Bros. movie to make more than $40 million at the box office this year, which THR described as a first for any Hollywood studio.
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Directed by Michael Chaves and produced by James Wan and Peter Safran, Last Rites follows Ed and Lorraine as they are recruited by a Pennsylvania couple who asks for help with a violent presence in their home.
The movie is based on the real-life alleged haunting of the Smurl family that the Warrens investigated in 1986. (Ed died in 2006 at the age of 79, while Lorraine died in 2019 at the age of 92. The famous investigators are survived by their daughter, Judy Spera.)
Farmiga and Wilson costar in the movie with Mia Tomlinson, Ben Hardy, Rebecca Calder, Elliot Cowan, Steve Coulter, Kila Lord Cassidy and Beau Gadsdon, among others.
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At the domestic box office, Last Rites made $83 million and stood out as the top movie of the weekend, per Box Office Mojo. The 10-year anniversary re-release of the pro-shot recording of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical Hamilton made $10 million, while another horror movie, Weapons, made $5.3 million in its fifth week in theaters.
The Conjuring: Last Rites is in theaters now.
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