Box office top 20: ‘Annabelle’ scores in a slow August
NEW YORK — The box-office downturn is getting scary, but that didn’t stop the horror sequel “Annabelle: Creation” from debuting with $35 million in North America over the weekend, according to final figures Monday.
The Warner Bros.-New Line Cinema release came just shy of matching the film’s predecessor, “Annabelle,” which opened with $35 million in 2014. Both films are spinoffs from the two previous “The Conjuring” movies.
Despite the steady debut for “Annabelle: Creation,” the August swoon at theatres continues. The weekend was down 31.6 per cent from the same weekend last year, when “Suicide Squad” and “Sausage Party” were packing theatres. The summer box office as a whole is down 12.4 per cent from 2016, according to comScore.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theatres Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theatre locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore.