Warner Bros.Continues Box office Streak with “The Conjuring: Last Rites“

Talk about a scary-good box office streak.

“The Conjuring: Last Rites,” scored a franchise-best launch of $83 million domestically and $187 million globally over the weekend, extending an epic theatrical run for warner Bros. as the seventh consecutive release to open above $40 million. No other studio has ever achieved that level of consistency at the box office.

After a arduous theatrical stretch with underperforming films like 2024’s “Joker: Folie à Deux” and this march’s “Mickey 17” and “The Alto knights,” Warner Bros.’ fortunes began to rebound with April’s video game adaptation “A Minecraft Movie” ($162 million debut). The studio’s turnaround continued with Ryan Coogler and Michael B. jordan’s vampire thriller “Sinners” ($48 million), followed by a quartet of summer offerings: “Final Destination: Bloodlines” ($51.6 million), Brad Pitt’s “F1: the Movie” ($57 million), “Superman” ($125 million), and director Zach Cregger’s horror mystery “Weapons” ($43.5 million).

What’s even better is that all of those films maintained momentum beyond opening weekend, a feat several major releases recently failed to achieve. (disney’s “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” and “Thunderbolts,” for example, experienced steep declines after promising debuts.) “A minecraft Movie” is the studio’s biggest earner of the year with $957 million globally, followed by “F1” (wich Warner Bros.distributed for Apple) with $617 million, “Superman” with $613 million, “Sinners” with $366 million, “Final Destination: Bloodlines” with $307 million, and “Weapons” with $251 million and counting.

“Warner Bros. is having a fantastic run,” says analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research. “The studio made outstanding