{"id":399007,"date":"2025-09-05T04:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399007\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T04:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:10:11","slug":"last-rites-seeing-7-million-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399007\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Rites&#8217; Seeing $7 Million In Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Warner Bros can get down on its knees and thank the Almighty, for alas, the studio has its seventh No 1 opener this weekend in New Line\u2019s <strong>The Conjuring: The Last Rites<\/strong>. Get this, it\u2019s Warners\u2019 fourth straight No. 1 opening for a horror film. We\u2019re hearing from sources that Thursday night\u2019s previews, which kicked off at 3 p.m., are heading for a saintly <strong>$7 million-$8<\/strong> <strong>million<\/strong>. That\u2019s easily bound to be a preview record for a Conjuring franchise movie (read on), and definitely puts the Michael Chaves-directed R-rated movie from Safran Company and Atomic Monster deep into the $40M-plus Friday-Monday range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe\u2019ll have more for you on Friday AM, but Conjuring: Last Rites previews are bigger than Sinnners ($4.7M), Final Destination Bloodlines ($5.5M), Weapons ($5.7M) and even The Nun ($5.4M); Chaves previously directed The Nun II ($3.1M). Of these, Final Destination Bloodlines and The Nun opened to north of $50M, the latter owning the biggest domestic opening in The Conjuring franchise at $53.8M. All in, the Conjuring universe including the core films and Nun and Annabelle spinoffs counts $2.3 billion at global box office, the highest-grossing horror franchise ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNo Rotten Tomatoes audience score yet, but critics aren\u2019t thankful for Last Rites giving it a 58% Rotten, which is not far from the previous Lorraine and Ed Warren paranormal installment, 2021\u2019s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, at 56%. That sequel\u2019s grosses were siphoned from a theatrical day-and-date release on HBO Max, when Warners was employing project popcorn during a time when cinemas were recovering and reopening from Covid. Devil Made Me Do It bowed to $24.1M domestic and ended its run at $65.6M stateside, $206M worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBack in May, Warner Bros opened New Line\u2019s Final Destination Bloodlines to a franchise domestic record of $51.6M, the movie becoming the top-grossing one in that horror series with north of $138M stateside and $301M worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros can get down on its knees and thank the Almighty, for alas, the studio has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,38874,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-399007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-the-conjuring-last-rites","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115149735878582509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}