Like many horrors ahead of it, dangerous critiques didn’t scare off moviegoers from purchasing tickets for “ The Nun II.” The sequel to the 2018 hit, launched in 3,728 theaters through Warner Bros., crowned the box office in its first weekend in North American theaters incomes an estimated $32.6 million, the studio stated Sunday.
Horror is most likely essentially the most reliably critic-proof style, no less than when it comes to opening weekend. The Michael Graves-directed sequel starring Taissa Farmiga and Storm Reid fell a long way in need of the debut for the primary movie ($53.8 million), however it is nonetheless a forged release. “The Nun” films are a part of the so-called Conjuring universe, which now has 9 motion pictures, and $2.1 billion in box office, to its title.
“The Nun II” bumped Denzel Washington’s “ Equalizer 3 ” to 2nd position in its 2nd weekend. The Columbia Pictures unlock added $12.1 million, bringing its home grosses to $61.9 million and its international income to $107.7 million.
Third position went to every other new film: The 3rd installment of Nia Vardalos’s “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” which arrives 21 years after the primary movie turned into an enormous sleeper hit incomes some $369 million towards a $5 million manufacturing finances. Released through Focus Features in 3,650 theaters, the 3rd movie earned an estimated $10 million, overwhelmingly pushed through feminine audiences (71%) who have been 25 or older (83%).
Vardalos wrote, directed and stars in “Greek Wedding 3,” which brings again John Corbett and takes the group to Greece. AP’s Jocelyn Noveck wrote in her review that the film, which has gotten most commonly deficient marks, is “like a thrice-warmed piece of baklava.”