Hail, Bathsheba, The Conjuring franchise had a killer opening weekend at the box office. Over the course of the post–Labor Day weekend of September 5, The Conjuring: Last Rights made $194 million internationally, per Variety. That means it beat out 2017’s It, which scored $190 million, to become the best opening ever for a horror movie. The film also had the best box-office weekend ever for a film in the Conjuring franchise, which includes not only other Conjuring films but also the successful film The Nun and three Annabelle movies.
The movie’s wild success extends an all-timer run for Warner Bros.: The studio is now the first to have seven movies in a row debut at over $40 million, per Variety. The studio’s hot streak began with A Minecraft Movie, after which it scored consecutive hits with Sinners, Final Destination Bloodlines, F1, Superman, Weapons, and now Last Rites. That’s a lot of achievements in just one weekend. Below, find a list of every record The Conjuring: Last Rites could exorcise as it continues its run.
It could hex the previous Conjurings
If The Conjuring: Last Rites makes at least $322 million in total worldwide box office, it would be the highest grossing of the direct “Conjuring” films, beating out 2016’s The Conjuring 2. Still, that number does not include any of the spin-off films in the franchise, so it’s not quite the win it could be.
It could beat the devil out of Sinners
Currently, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is the highest-grossing horror movie of 2025 internationally. If The Conjuring: Last Rites makes more than $365 million, which was Sinners’s total, then it would be the highest-grossing horror movie of the year. Notably, that also means it would likely become the highest-grossing movie in its own franchise, since 2018’s The Nun made a similar amount to Sinners, with $366 million.
It could curse It
The highest grossing-horror movie of all time is the 2017 adaptation of It, whose opening-weekend record Last Rites already beat. Now, the question is if Last Rites will have the same legs as It. That movie ultimately made $702 million at the global box office. From here, The Conjuring will still have to magic up a significant sum to beat that high, but it’s already done it once. Don’t bet against Bathsheba.
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The film already scored the best opening-weekend tally ever for a horror movie.
