This weekend’s box office winners feature a dark comedy, mystery thriller and a supernatural horror flick, according to comScore’s estimates.
“Warner Bros.’ horror hit ‘The Nun’ scares up another $45.65 million at the global box office for a worldwide total to date of nearly $300 million,” comScore’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian said. “Notably, Jack Black in Universal’s ‘The House With A Clock In Its Walls’ opened this weekend at number one in North America with $26.85 million and in just 22 territories for a global total of $35.58 million.”
Clock did well at the box office despite a mediocre critics rating and not so great audience score. Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rang in at 68% as 86 of their critics found it “fresh” while 41 found it “rotten. Movie-goers gave it an average rating of 3.3 out of a possible 5 points.
A Simple Favor wowed at the box office. Fans and critics alike loved this mystery thriller as the movie received an 84% on the Tomatometer of critics scores and a 4 out 5 rating by fans.
The Nun was not received well by critics or moviegoers but managed third place this weekend.
The top 12 domestic weekend box office estimates
- House With A Clock In Its Walls, The – Universal – $26.9M
- Simple Favor, A – Lionsgate – $10.4M
- Nun, The – Warner Bros. – $10.2M
- Predator, The – 20th Century Fox – $8.7M
- Crazy Rich Asians – Warner Bros. – $6.5M
- White Boy Rick – Sony – $5.0M
- Peppermint – STX Entertainment – $3.7M
- Fahrenheit 11/9 – Briarcliff Entertainment – $3.1M
- Meg, The – Warner Bros. – $2.4M
- Searching – Sony – $2.2M
- Life Itself – Amazon Studios – $2.1M
- Unbroken: Path To Redemption – Pure Flix – $1.3M
The top 12 worldwide weekend box office estimates
- Nun, The – Warner Bros. – $45.6M
- House With A Clock In Its Walls, The – Multiple – $35.6M
- Predator, The – 20th Century Fox – $24.0M
- Golden Job – Multiple – $23.2M
- Johnny English Strikes Again – Universal – $17.2M
- Simple Favor, A – Lionsgate – $15.6M
- Crazy Rich Asians – Warner Bros. – $11.6M
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Paramount Pictures – $9.2M
- L Storm – Multiple – $9.0M
- Great Battle, The – Next Entertainment World – $8.9M
- Incredibles 2 – Disney – $8.8M
- Ash Is Purest White – Shanghai Film Group – $5.9M
Full details regarding the global domestic and international box office results
Weekend BO Estimate (USD) |
Weekend Release Cume (USD) |
Distributor |
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Title |
Worldwide |
Int’l |
Domestic |
Worldwide |
Int’l |
Domestic |
Int’l |
No. of Terr. |
Domestic |
Nun, The |
45,650,000 |
35,400,000 |
10,250,000 |
292,595,307 |
191,700,000 |
100,895,307 |
WB |
81 |
WB |
House With A Clock In Its Walls, The |
35,580,000 |
8,730,000 |
26,850,000 |
35,580,000 |
8,730,000 |
26,850,000 |
MUL |
23 |
UNI |
Predator, The |
24,000,000 |
15,300,000 |
8,700,000 |
94,935,122 |
54,500,000 |
40,435,122 |
FOX |
83 |
FOX |
Golden Job |
23,200,000 |
23,200,000 |
23,200,000 |
23,200,000 |
MUL |
6 |
WGUI |
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Johnny English Strikes Again |
17,200,000 |
17,200,000 |
22,100,000 |
22,100,000 |
UNI |
33 |
UNI |
||
Simple Favor, A |
15,600,000 |
5,200,000 |
10,400,000 |
42,562,414 |
10,000,000 |
32,562,414 |
LGF |
37 |
LGF |
Crazy Rich Asians |
11,615,000 |
5,100,000 |
6,515,000 |
206,439,483 |
47,000,000 |
159,439,483 |
WB |
36 |
WB |
Mission: Impossible – Fallout |
9,165,000 |
8,000,000 |
1,165,000 |
777,939,667 |
559,800,000 |
218,139,667 |
PAR |
50 |
PAR |
L Storm |
9,000,000 |
9,000,000 |
55,971,036 |
55,971,036 |
MUL |
3 |
ASIA |
||
Great Battle, The |
8,900,000 |
8,900,000 |
9,012,906 |
9,012,906 |
N.E.W. |
1 |
WGUI |
||
Incredibles 2 |
8,830,000 |
8,300,000 |
530,000 |
1,195,154,358 |
588,800,000 |
606,354,358 |
DIS |
21 |
DIS |
Ash Is Purest White |
5,900,000 |
5,900,000 |
5,900,000 |
5,900,000 |
SHFG |
1 |
|||
Searching |
5,775,000 |
3,600,000 |
2,175,000 |
54,215,344 |
31,100,000 |
23,115,344 |
SNY |
31 |
SNY |
Meg, The |
5,750,000 |
3,400,000 |
2,350,000 |
516,422,919 |
375,900,000 |
140,522,919 |
WB |
63 |
WB |
Peppermint |
5,320,000 |
1,600,000 |
3,720,000 |
36,332,559 |
6,000,000 |
30,332,559 |
STX |
35 |
STX |
Disney’s Christopher Robin |
5,153,000 |
4,100,000 |
1,053,000 |
164,788,797 |
67,900,000 |
96,888,797 |
DIS |
22 |
DIS |
White Boy Rick |
5,000,000 |
5,000,000 |
17,410,368 |
17,410,368 |
1 |
SNY |
|||
Feng Shui |
4,600,000 |
4,600,000 |
4,655,021 |
4,655,021 |
MGBX |
1 |
CJE |
||
Negotiation, The |
3,850,000 |
3,850,000 |
3,939,917 |
3,939,917 |
CJE |
1 |
CJE |
||
Fahrenheit 11/9 |
3,101,000 |
3,101,000 |
3,101,000 |
3,101,000 |
1 |
BCLF |
|||
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation |
3,100,000 |
2,500,000 |
600,000 |
507,576,985 |
341,500,000 |
166,076,985 |
SNY |
59 |
SNY |
Alpha |
2,900,000 |
2,500,000 |
400,000 |
73,422,570 |
38,200,000 |
35,222,570 |
SNY |
49 |
SNY |
BlacKkKlansman |
2,650,000 |
2,000,000 |
650,000 |
76,430,350 |
29,300,000 |
47,130,350 |
UNI |
26 |
FOC |
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again |
2,370,000 |
2,000,000 |
370,000 |
387,696,835 |
267,400,000 |
120,296,835 |
UNI |
43 |
UNI |
Class Reunion 1 |
2,300,000 |
2,300,000 |
2,300,000 |
2,300,000 |
WB |
1 |