ALL KNEEL BEFORE THE POWER OF THE NUN!
She needs no introduction since she blasted straight into the top 5 at number 1 this week. The…5th? film in the Conjuring Universe is yet another in the series to open with a dominating position in the box office. It made $53.8M domestically, and worldwide it’s made an insane $130M. All on a budget of $22M. That’s a success story if I ever saw one, and although reviews haven’t been kind to this entry, safe to say ‘The Nun’ will be content counting the millions she brings, in the weeks to come.
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At number 2 we have another newbie. Another ‘Taken’ clone from Luc Besson, this time starring Jennifer Garner as an avatar for vengeance. It brought in $13.4M which coincidentally is it’s current rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film cost $25M to make and has only made $14M worldwide. Moving on from that we have those ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ getting crazy rich again, trailing behind pepperment by a mere $300k with $13.1M. I don’t really need to express just how successful this movie has been again, but this week the film that cost $30M to make, shot up to $164M worldwide so, yeah that sequel is still coming.
Number 4 went to ‘The Meg’, trudging along slowly but surely to that coveted $500M worldwide total. Currently its total is at $492M after bringing in $6M and having its domestic total finally top its $130M budget, at $131M. Finally at number 5 ‘Searching’ made $4.5M this weekend with a domestic total of $14.3M, and a worldwide total of $32M. I’m still struggling to find its budget but I can’t imagine it was a costly film to make. I mean Macbooks are expensive but they’re not $32M expensive. Yet.
That’s it for the top 5 and as always give the podcast episode a listen as we discuss the Captain Marvel official photos, the Oscars pushing back their popular film category, and Shawna’s reviews of ‘BlackkKlansman’, ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and, ‘Searching’.