Universal reportedly paid $400 million to get the rights to The Exorcist, and David Gordon Green’s sequel/reboot The Exorcist: BelieverBarbie opening. Either way, it fared better than last week’s winner, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, and last week’s close runner-up, Saw X. This week, the dog movie made $11 million and the killer tricycle puppet movie made $8 million.
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Finishing up the top five are The CreatorDuck Dynasty prequel The BlindA Haunting In Venice, The Nun II, Dumb Money, and Equalizer 3, all of which made a similar amount of money this weekend, and then a 30th anniversary re-release of Hocus Pocus, which made $1.5 million.
The other noteworthy thing on this chart is the debut of Dicks: The Musical, which only made $220,000, but it did that on only seven screens—which means a wild per-screen average of $31,000 (much better than anything else on the charts right now). That doesn’t usually translate to similar numbers when these things go wide, but stranger things have happened in the domestic box office.
Here’s the full top 10, courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
- The Exorcist: Believer
- PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
- Saw X
- The Creator
- The Blind
- A Haunting In Venice
- The Nun II
- Dumb Money
- The Equalizer 3
- Hocus Pocus