{"id":2002626,"date":"2025-09-06T20:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2002626"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:22:01","slug":"last-rites-first-in-box-office-on-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/last-rites-first-in-box-office-on-opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Rites&#8217; first in box office on opening day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F09%2F110819942.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The last took first. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites\u201d was in the No. 1 spot in the box office Friday, raking in $34.5 million on its opening day, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thenumbers.com\/daily-box-office-chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to The Numbers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The supernatural horror is the ninth in the \u201cConjuring\u201d series, loosely based on a true story of a family who moved into a Rhode Island and saw apparitions, heard noises and smelled rotten odors.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga\u00a0reprise their roles as paranormal investigators in the flick, which the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/04\/movies\/the-conjuring-last-rites-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times called<\/a>, \u201ca disappointing send-off; more an eccentric family drama than a real chiller.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is expected to take in as much as $75 million this weekend, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/box-office-conjuring-the-last-rites-1236508461\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Deadline<\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Vera Farmiga reprises her role as a paranormal investigator in \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In the second spot was \u201cHamilton,\u201d which came to theaters Friday after being released on Disney+ in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>The filmed version of the Tony-winning Broadway musical could enjoy earnings of up to $10 million this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Remaining in third place was \u201cWeapons,\u201d with $1.5 million in sales on its fifth Friday in theaters.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A filmed version of \u201cHamilton\u201d was released in theaters on Sept. 5th. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Disney+\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>In the horror-mystery \u201cWeapons,\u201d Julia Garner plays a teacher whose students go missing. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFreakier Friday\u201d moved up a notch to fourth, with a $960,000 take.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaught Stealing,\u201d which was No. 1 last Friday, flew all the way down to fifth, with $940,000 in revenue. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last took first. \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites\u201d was in the No. 1 spot in the box office Friday, raking in $34.5 million on its opening day, according to The Numbers.\u00a0 The supernatural horror is the ninth in the \u201cConjuring\u201d series, loosely based on a true story of a family who moved into a Rhode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2002627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[34204,21741,351620,22232,21912,347290,347289],"class_list":["post-2002626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-box-office","tag-entertainment","tag-hamilton","tag-horror","tag-movies","tag-patrick-wilson","tag-vera-farmiga"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Last-Rites-first-in-box-office-on-opening-day.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}