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UPDATE, writethru: The horror genre was the biggest global draw this weekend, demonstrating that the communal theatrical experience of scary movies is alive and well. New Line/Warner Bros' The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It led the international box office with $26.8M from 43 markets while Paramount's A Quiet Place…

Sunday AM Writethru:  It use to be that the studios would space their horror movies apart on the schedule. It’s not usual that one would open up immediately after the other for fear of cannibalizing the same audience. That didn’t happen this weekend as New Line’s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It opened to $24M…

Refresh for updates: Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II grossed $4.2M yesterday, which is the best Tuesday recorded at the domestic box office since the onset of Covid in mid-March of last year. A Quiet Place Part II‘s Tuesday beats that of Warner Bros./Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong which made $2.18M on April 6, and…

When you have a horror film series that keeps the cash flowing to the tune of $1.8 billion and counting, you just keep the new installments coming. Despite delays due to the pandemic, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros are tackling the continuing tales of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren in the seventh…

UPDATE, writethru: It was a busy weekend at global turnstiles, with a particularly noisy start for Paramount's A Quiet Place Part II. The John Krasinski-helmed sequel came out shouting with a $22M overseas debut in just 12 markets for a worldwide opening of $70.4M including the three-day $48.4M North American haul (if…

EXCLUSIVE: And how does your client plead, Counselor? Not guilty by reason of Satan, Your Honor. A new Discovery+ documentary chronicles the real-life case of a Connecticut man who was charged with a brutal murder and claimed innocence by insisting “the devil made me do it.” The streamer set a June 11 premiere date…

Warner Bros has released the trailer for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, the latest installment in the horror franchise that returns Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson to the fold as real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. Director James Wan, who with them kicked off the lucrative series in…

EXCLUSIVE: The recent surge nationwide of coronavirus cases and California Governor Gavin Newsom‘s recent promise to lay down tougher restrictions in the state tomorrow has many in exhibition and distribution really concerned that there’s no hard date in immediate sight as to when the big circuits will reopen again. I…

Updated with new Conjuring title. Warner Bros. came with the goods during their panel at CCXP. They shared a look at the new animated feature Scoob and gave us all another peek at Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming super-secret Tenet which has been only described as “action epic evolving around the world of international…