{"id":208693,"date":"2025-09-07T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208693\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:36:11","slug":"last-rites-bows-to-187m-global-top-horror-start-ever-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208693\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Rites Bows To $187M Global & Top Horror Start Ever Overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUpdated:<\/strong> New Line\/Warner Bros\u2019 The Conjuring: Last Rites<\/a> positively possessed the global and international box office<\/a> this weekend with a $187M<\/strong> worldwide opening, $104M<\/strong> of the total coming from 66 overseas markets.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Michael Chaves-directed installment has bragging rights to becoming the biggest horror debut of all time internationally (overtaking WB\u2019s own It Chapter 2) and the 2nd biggest ever globally. Warner leads studios for 2025 worldwide ($3.778B), offshore ($2.04B) and domestically ($1.738B).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Patrick Wilson\/Vera Farmiga-starrer further had the biggest debut in the Conjuring<\/a> Universe in 41 overseas markets including Germany, Netherlands, Italy, UK and all of Latin America.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was also the top launch for a horror pic ever in 17 markets including Spain, Poland, Norway, Brazil, Colombia and Chile. And, the biggest WB opening weekend ever in India.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Imax, the global bow was $14.3M including $4.9M from overseas. The worldwide opening is the biggest for the Conjuring franchise as well as the 2nd\u00a0biggest opening weekend ever for a horror film, behind Alien: Romulus.<\/p>\n

\n\tRegionally, Last Rites comfortably had the best opening weekend for the Conjuring Universe in Europe, and was the 3rd\u00a0biggest horror opening weekend ever, in like-for-likes there.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Latin America, the movie is the biggest horror opening weekend of all time and the 3rd\u00a0best for WB ever, behind Barbie and Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Asia, Last Rites had the biggest opening of the Conjuring Universe;\u00a0 notably dominating box office in Indonesia (83% market share) and Philippines (91% market share).<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are a further 10 markets to release next week, including France and the Middle East. Japan will be the last market to open on October 17.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere are the Top 5 debuts: Mexico<\/strong> ($13.3M), UK<\/strong> ($8.8M), Brazil<\/strong> ($7.7M), India<\/strong> ($6.7M) and Indonesia<\/strong> ($5.6M).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn holdover play, Universal\/DreamWorks Animation\u2019s The Bad Guys 2 is approaching the $200M mark worldwide. On a staggered rollout, the sequel added $5.9M<\/strong> this weekend, taking the offshore running cume to $113.3M<\/strong> across 77 markets, and global to $191M<\/strong>. Australia releases on September 18.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Top 5 offshore markets to date are as follows: China<\/strong> ($25.1M), UK<\/strong> ($16.8M), France<\/strong> ($11.1M), Spain<\/strong> ($7.8M) and Mexico<\/strong> ($6.1M).<\/p>\n

\n\tIn its sophomore frame, Searchlight\/Disney\u2019s The Roses added $5.8M<\/strong> from 44 material overseas markets. This lifts the offshore cume to $20M<\/strong> and worldwide to $32.3M<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe international drop was 45% while the black comedy was No. 2 in the UK, Netherlands and Portugal. In new openings, it landed No. 2 in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe strongest holds were in Sweden (-19%), Portugal (-22%), Poland (-28%), UK (-33%), Germany (-37%) and Netherlands (-38%).<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s the Top 5 to date: UK<\/strong> ($7.2M), Germany<\/strong> ($1.5M), Netherlands<\/strong> ($1.4M), France<\/strong> ($1.3M) and Australia<\/strong> ($1.1M).<\/p>\n

\n\tStill to come are Thailand, Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n

\n\tMISC UPDATED CUMES\/NOTABLES<\/strong>
Weapons<\/strong> (WB): $4.6M intl weekend (74 markets); $108.5M intl cume\/$251.5M global
Materialists<\/strong> (SNY\/A24): $3.1M intl weekend (57 markets); $61.2M intl cume\/global to be updated
F1<\/strong> (WB): $3M intl weekend (68 markets); $430.5M intl cume\/$619.5M global\u00a0
Freakier Friday<\/strong> (DIS): $2.6M intl weekend (51 markets); $55.1M intl cume\/$143M global
Jurassic World Rebirth<\/strong> (UNI): $2.3M intl weekend (83 markets); $521.9M intl cume\/$861M global
Caught Stealing<\/strong> (SNY): $2.3M intl weekend (49 markets); $9.4M intl cume\/$24.3M global
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle<\/strong> (SNY): $1.8M intl weekend (9 Sony markets); $45M Sony intl cume\/global to be updated
The Naked Gun<\/strong> (PAR): $1.5M intl weekend (44 markets); $47M intl cume\/$99.3M global
Smurfs<\/strong> (PAR): $1.5M intl weekend (53 markets); $86.3M intl cume\/$117.4M global
How To Train Your Dragon<\/strong> (UNI): $1.3M intl weekend (83 markets); $369.1M intl cume\/$632.1M global
Superman<\/strong> (WB): $500K intl weekend (65 markets); $260.8M intl cume\/$614.1M global<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated: New Line\/Warner Bros\u2019 The Conjuring: Last Rites positively possessed the global and international box office this weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":208694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,7658,68202,68203,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-208693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-international-box-office","10":"tag-the-conjuring","11":"tag-the-conjuring-last-rites","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115165409170130407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}