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

1. House With A Clock In Its Walls, The – Universal – $26.9M
2. Simple Favor, A – Lionsgate – $10.4M
3. Nun, The – Warner Bros. – $10.2M
4. Predator, The – 20th Century Fox – $8.7M
5. Crazy Rich Asians – Warner Bros. – $6.5M
6. White Boy Rick – Sony – $5.0M
7. Peppermint – STX Entertainment – $3.7M
8. Fahrenheit 11/9 – Briarcliff Entertainment – $3.1M
9. Meg, The – Warner Bros. – $2.4M
10. Searching – Sony – $2.2M
11. Life Itself – Amazon Studios – $2.1M
12. Unbroken: Path To Redemption – Pure Flix – $1.3M

The top 12 worldwide weekend box office estimates

1. Nun, The – Warner Bros. – $45.6M
2. House With A Clock In Its Walls, The – Multiple – $35.6M
3. Predator, The – 20th Century Fox – $24.0M
4. Golden Job – Multiple – $23.2M
5. Johnny English Strikes Again – Universal – $17.2M
6. Simple Favor, A – Lionsgate – $15.6M
7. Crazy Rich Asians – Warner Bros. – $11.6M
8. Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Paramount Pictures – $9.2M
9. L Storm – Multiple – $9.0M
10. Great Battle, The – Next Entertainment World – $8.9M
11. Incredibles 2 – Disney – $8.8M
12. Ash Is Purest White – Shanghai Film Group – $5.9M

Full details regarding the global domestic and international box office results