House With a Clock, Simple Favor and Nun take top spots at U.S. box office
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 | |||||||
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 | ||
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 | |||
