Like many horrors before it, bad reviews didn’t scare off moviegoers from buying tickets for “The Nun II.”
Like many horrors before it, bad reviews didn't scare off moviegoers from buying tickets for"." The sequel to the 2018 hit, released in 3,728 theaters by Warner Bros., topped the box office in its first weekend in North American theaters earning an estimated $32.6 million, the studio said Sunday.
Horror is perhaps the most reliably critic-proof genre, at least when it comes to opening weekend. The Michael Graves-directed sequel starring Taissa Farmiga and Storm Reid fell far short of the debut for the first film , but it's still a solid launch. “The Nun” movies are part of the so-called Conjuring universe, which now has nine films, and $2.1 billion in box office, to its name."to second place in its second weekend. The Columbia Pictures release added $12.
Third place went to another new movie: The third installment of Nia Vardalos’s “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” which arrives 21 years after the first film became a massive sleeper hit earning some $369 million against a $5 million production budget. Released by Focus Features in 3,650 theaters, the third film earned an estimated $10 million, overwhelmingly driven by female audiences who were 25 or older .
Vardalos wrote, directed and stars in"Greek Wedding 3," which brings back John Corbett and takes the gang to Greece. AP'sthat the movie, which has gotten mostly poor marks, is"like a thrice-warmed piece of baklava." Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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