‘Annabelle: Creation’ scares up $35 million in debut
The box-office downturn is getting scary, but that didn’t stop the horror sequel “Annabelle: Creation” from debuting with $35 million in North America this past weekend, according to final figures Monday.
The film fell short of the debut of its predecessor, “Annabelle,” which opened with $37.1 million in 2014. Both films are spinoffs from the two previous “The Conjuring” movies.
Despite the steady debut for “Annabelle: Creation,” the August swoon at theaters continues. The weekend was down 31.6 percent from the same weekend last year, when “Suicide Squad” and “Sausage Party” were packing theaters. The summer box office as a whole is down 12.4 percent from 2016, according to comscore.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comscore.
1. “Annabelle: Creation,” Warner Bros., $35,006,404, 3,502 locations, $9,996 average, $35,006,404, one week.
2. “Dunkirk,” Warner Bros., $10,884,117, 3,762 locations, $2,893 average, $153,191,668, four weeks.
3. “Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature,” Open Road, $8,342,311, 4,003 locations, $2,084 average, $8,342,311, one week.
4. “The Dark Tower,” Sony, $7,820,154, 3,451 locations, $2,266 average, $34,250,918, two weeks.
5. “Girls Trip,” Universal, $6,466,475, 2,303 locations, $2,808 average, $97,139,980, four weeks.
6. “The Emoji Movie,” Sony, $6,450,927, 3,219 locations, $2,004 average, $63,437,874, three weeks.
7. “Spider-man: Homecoming,” Sony, $6,022,637, 2,607 locations, $2,310 average, $306,376,331, six weeks.
8. “Kidnap,” Aviron Pictures,
$5,096,823, 2,418 locations, $2,108 average, $19,266,106, two weeks.
9. “The Glass Castle,” Lionsgate, $4,678,548, 1,461 locations, $3,202 average, $4,678,548, one week.
10. “Atomic Blonde,” Focus Features, $4,480,635, 2,093 locations, $2,141 average, $42,727,860, three weeks.
11. “War for the Planet of the Apes,” 20th Century Fox, $3,603,698, 2,098 locations, $1,718 average, $137,232,191, five weeks.
12. “Despicable Me 3,” Universal, $3,129,420, 2,013 locations, $1,555 average, $247,735,865, seven weeks.
13. “Detroit,” Annapurna Pictures, $2,888,794, 3,007 locations, $961 average, $13,300,258, three weeks.
14. “The Big Sick,” Lionsgate, $1,463,932, 709 locations, $2,065 average, $36,407,780, eight weeks.
15. “Wonder Woman,” Warner Bros., $1,447,475, 961 locations, $1,506 average, $402,175,560, 11 weeks.
16. “Baby Driver,” Sony, $1,441,906, 865 locations, $1,667 average, $100,033,833, seven weeks.
17. “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” STX Entertainment, $901,323, 785 locations, $1,148 average, $38,359,317, four weeks.
18. “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power,” Paramount, $815,947, 556 locations, $1,468 average, $2,311,608, three weeks.
19. “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha,” Reliance Big Entertainment PVT. Ltd., $678,532, 176 locations, $3,855 average, $678,532, one week.
20. “Wind River,” The Weinstein Company, $612,683, 45 locations, $13,615 average, $840,901, two weeks.