- The Exorcist: Believer (review)- $27.2M
After a mostly-successful Halloween reboot, Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green’s vision for The Exorcist franchise got off to an accursed start. The Exorcist: Believer did open with a franchise-best $27M domestic and $45M global, but the comparative cost will be against the $400M that Universal paid for the horror classic’s rights. With less than enthusiastic reviews from critics and audiences, it’s clear that this film didn’t do the trick as the start of a new trilogy, but until the whole thing is completed we can’t say whether this entire idea was a disaster. Will Green stick around for the long haul, though? I wouldn’t bet on it.
2. PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie– $11.7M/$38.8M
The agents of PAW Patrol continue to dominate the family-friendly space with no other films out there for kids. After two weeks the animated super-pup Mighty Movie has $38M domestic and $87M worldwide. A third movie is set to arrive in 2026.
3. Saw X– $8.1M/$32.5M
The Saw franchise picks up right where it left off as a small-budget winner. With $32M domestic and $43M worldwide, the $13M tenthquel is below the series’ average but higher than previous chapters, Spiral and Jigsaw.
4. The Creator– $6M/$24.9M
It hurts me too much to write about the box office failure of Gareth Edwards’ ambitious, strongly-reviewed sci-fi epic, The Creator. After two weeks the film only has $61M worldwide on a reported budget of around $80M-$90M. Once again, audiences that complain about the lack of original content fail to support it when they see it.
5. The Blind– $3.9M/$10.4M
6. A Haunting in Venice– $2.7M/$35.6M
7. The Nun II– $2.5M/$81M
8. Dumb Money– $2.1M/$10.6M
9. The Equalizer 3– $1.8M/$88.8M
10. Hocus Pocus– $1.5M
Disney’s 30th anniversary re-release of the classic witch comedy Hocus Pocus conjured up a huge $1.5M weekend. In 1993 the coven cast a cult-ish spell of $47M worldwide.
