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[Box Office] ‘Annabelle Comes Home’ Hurt By Clutter, Still Opens Strong
It’s all about narratives, right? What’s the writer trying to spin and how are they interpreting the news/numbers? While New Line Cinema’s Annabelle Comes Home (read our review) – the third film in the Annabelle franchise and seventh in the Conjuring Universe – took the second spot in this weekend’s box office, it’s also the worst opening of them all.
Sitting at 70% on Rotten Tomatoes with an equally strong audience score, Annabelle Comes Home opened behind Toy Story 4 with an estimated $20.3M opening. If you include the extended week, it’s sitting at $31.2M. While most mainstream media will peg this as a failure, specifically because it’s the weakest opening of them all, it’s actually yet another hit for the studio and James Wan‘s Atomic Monster.
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With a global opening of $76M, Annabelle Comes Home is already in the profit zone and everything from here on out is gravy. It’s likely to top $150M in its full run, which is astounding for a film budgeted in the $12-20M range. Also, it’s important to note that films are taking a pounding from this summer’s clutter, including that of Godzilla, Child’s Play and even Ma, and that New Line made the conscious decision to open their doll-themed film against Child’s Play and Toy Story. Some people think clutter is a myth, but here’s your evidence: New Line’s Conjuring-lite spinoff The Curse of La Llorona was smashed by critics and fans, and still opened to $26M – more than that of Annabelle Comes Home. In NO WORLD should this have happened.
Is it possible we’re experiencing some Conjuring fatigue? Sure, it’s possible, but not enough to make a dent in this low budget franchise that keeps finding a way to make hundreds of millions with each sequel. With Conjuring 3 now in production and several spinoffs in development, expect another decade of supernatural horror from New Line and Atomic Monster. Now if only we can get an Elm Street sequel…
It was announced two weeks ago that Paramount is resurrecting the Scary Movie spoof franchise with a brand new reboot movie, which will likely arrive in theaters next year.
The new movie, a joint venture between Paramount and Miramax that will technically be the sixth installment in the franchise, is expected to go into production this coming Fall.
We don’t yet know who will be writing, directing or starring in the Scary Movie reboot, but two actors in particular have already expressed an interest in joining the franchise.
The first is Melissa Barrera, who can currently be seen in theaters in Radio Silence’s bloody horror movie Abigail. Barrera is of course also the star of Scream and Scream VI, which kind of makes her a perfect candidate to lampoon herself in a Scary Movie reboot.
“I always loved those movies,” Melissa Barrera tells the website Inverse. “When I saw it announced, I was like, ‘Oh, that would be fun.’ That would be so fun to do.”
The actress adds, “They have the iconic cast that did it, so we’ll see what goes on with that. I’m just excited to see a new one.”
In a tweet posted last night, Bailee Madison (The Strangers: Prey at Night, the upcoming “Pretty Little Liars: Summer School”) also threw her hat in the running.
Madison tweets, “Random but scary movie 6 hit me up cause I just feel like we’d have fun okay bye.” Your move, Paramount. And make sure you call Anna Faris and Regina Hall too.
Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, the first Scary Movie was released in 2000, just four years after Wes Craven reinvigorated the horror genre with his meta slasher masterpiece, Scream.
The film parodied horror movies of the time including Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Blair Witch Project, and the horror-comedy spoof scared up $278 million at the worldwide box office. The success of that first Scary Movie paved the way for an entire franchise of horror spoofs, five of them in total released between 2000 and 2013.
Bailee Madison in “The Strangers: Prey at Night’
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