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Posted September 7, 2025 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box-Office Weekend: Horror Conjures a Win

A new film has taken sturdy control of the box-office weekend top ten as The Conjuring: Last Rites bested both this week’s second- and third-place films by over $70 million.

"The Conjuring: Last Rites" posterIn its first weekend of release, the Warner Bros. sequel, The Conjuring: Last Rites debuted in first place where it took in $83.0 million for Warner Brothers. This was more than enough to top the second-place debut of the 2025 re-release of Hamilton from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, which brought in $10.0 million over the last three days. Meanwhile, last weekend’s top film, Weapons, dropped to third place where it brought in $5.4 million, giving the Warner Bros. product a five-week total of $143.0 million. Holding steady in fourth place, Freakier Friday added $3.8 million over the weekend to bring its five-week total to $87.8 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. After claiming third place last weekend, Caught Stealing fell two spots to land in fifth place this week, where it brought in $3.2 million for Sony Pictures Releasing, lifting the film’s two-week total to $12.8 million.

Falling one spot, The Roses landed in sixth place this weekend where it took in $2.8 million, bringing the film’s two-week total to $12.3 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. In its seventh week of release, the fourth film from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on this weekend’s top ten, The Fantastic Four: First Steps fell from sixth to seventh where it made $2.75 million over the weekend, to bring its overall total to $270.1 million. Just behind that, Universal Pictures saw The Bad Guys 2 drop from seventh to eighth as it added $2.5 million this weekend, bringing its six-week total to $77.7 million. The third debut in the top ten this weekend, Light of the World, claimed eighth place where it brought in $2.4 million. Finally, after nine weeks in release, and amassing a total of $353.3 million, the Warner Bros. release Superman dropped two spots, to finish in tenth place where it brought in $1.0 million over the last three days.

Yet again, three films dropped from this weekend’s top ten. Not only did the ninth- and tenth-place films from last weekend fall from this week’s list, but the second-place film seven days ago also failed to reappear on this weekend’s list. The fiftieth anniversary re-release of Jaws managed to bring in $12.3 million over the last two weeks, but couldn’t crack the top ten again this weekend. Meanwhile, after four weeks in release, the Universal Pictures International product Nobody 2 has made $21.4 million for the studio despite falling from the top ten this weekend. Finally, after six weeks in release and bringing in a total of $52.3 million for Paramount Pictures International, the remake of The Naked Gun also dropped from this weekend’s top ten.

Weekend Box Office (September 5th – September 7th)

    1. The Conjuring: Last Rites…$83.0 Million
    2. Hamilton 2025 Re-release…$10.0 Million
    3. Weapons…$5.4 Million
    4. Freakier Friday…$3.8 Million
    5. Caught Stealing…$3.2 Million
    6. The Roses…$2.8 Million
    7. The Fantastic Four: First Steps…$2.75 Million
    8. The Bad Guys 2…$2.5 Million
    9. Light of the World…$2.4 Million
    10. Superman…$1.0 Million
Mike Tyrkus

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.
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