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Box-Office Weekend: The Nun Sets Franchise Record

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

The new horror film The Nun led the weekend box office with an impressive $53.5 million opening weekend. The film toppled the franchise’s opening weekend record of $41.8 million set by the first film in the series, The Conjuring in 2013. The weekend’s other debut, Peppermint, delivered a solid opening for Jennifer Lawrence.

Meanwhile, Crazy Rich Asians brought in another $13.6 million to lift its four-week total to $136.2 million and land the film firmly in second place. The aforementioned Peppermint finished just behind that mark with $13.3 million to show for its opening weekend effort.

The monster-shark starring film The Meg added another $6 million to its earnings to lift its five-week total to $131.6 million which puts it in fourth place. Just behind that, in the fifth spot with $4.5 million is Searching, which also sports a three-week total of $14.3 million. The sixth spot in the tope ten belongs to the Tom Cruise-led action-film Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which added $3.8 million to its seven-week $212.1 million total.

The family-friendly Disney offering Christopher Robin added $3.2 million, bringing its six-week tally to $91.7 million. The drama Operation Finale took in only $3 million during its second week of release, dropping it to the eighth spot and giving it a two-week total of $14.1 million as it looks likely to depart the top ten in the very near future. The family adventure Alpha added $2.5 million to bring its four-week total to $32.4 million and landing it firmly in ninth place this weekend.

Finally, director Spike Lee’s latest film, BlacKkKlansman, took in $1.6 million to lift its five-week total to $43.5 million as it too looks poised to depart the top ten soon. Next weekend’s release of the sci-fi action film The Predator, the Blake Lively/Anna Kendrick vehicle A Simple Favor, and the Matthew McConaughey-led White Boy Rick should shake up the top ten booting some of these underperformers from the list next week.

Weekend Box Office (September 7th – 9th)

  1. The Nun…$53.5 Million
  2. Crazy Rich Asians…$13.6 Million
  3. Peppermint…$13.3 Million
  4. The Meg…$6.0 Million
  5. Searching…$4.5 Million
  6. Mission: Impossible – Fallout…$3.8 Million
  7. Christopher Robin…$3.2 Million
  8. Operation Finale…$3.0 Million
  9. Alpha…$2.5 Million
  10. BlacKkKlansman…$1.6 Million

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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