The Conjuring
Thanks to magnanimous ticket sales forAnnabelle : Creation , the films inThe ConjuringUniverse have cross $ 1 billion at the worldwide box office . Released in 2013,The Conjuringkicked off film director James Wan ’s picture show series , as it told the true - life tale of demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren ( Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga ) , who for the bulk of the film concentrated on the enigma behind the supernatural hauntings at a Rhode Island farmhouse .
But in the film ’s opening scenes the Warrens encountered a unholy - possessed vintage chick named Annabelle , whose creepy presence led Wan and Warner Bros. to create a solo movie for the twisted plaything , thus kicking off an accidentaluniverse ofConjuring - connect movies . realize a successful box office take on a relatively little budget in equivalence to most Hollywood standards , Warner Bros. continue with confidence to not only produce the extremely successfulThe Conjuring 2 , but churn out theAnnabelleprequelAnnabelle : Creation , which by all indications is run to be as big a smash as its predecessors inspire by theWarren ’s typesetter’s case files .
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harmonize toThe Wrap , Annabelle : Creationhas earned more than $ 110 million worldwide since its August 11 release in theaters . Together with the global tallies ofThe Conjuring($318 million),The Conjuring 2($320.2 million ) andAnnabelle($256.8 million ) , the film universe has grossed $ 1.005 billion to day of the month , and will surely add millions more inAnnabelle : Creation’ssecond weekend at the box office . Warner Bros. President of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution Sue Kroll lionize the milepost , say in a statement :
“ We are thrilled with the success of Annabelle : Creation and enormously proud to keep bringing this hugely pop conjury dealership to theaters everywhere . We congratulate our fellow at New Line Cinema , our astute merchandising and distribution squad , and everyone who put their collective creative energies together to tell such wondrous horrific stories for movie audience around the world to enjoy . ”
What make the success ofThe Conjuringuniverse so noteworthy is that while the film have all earned blockbuster number , they ’ve done so with budgets from miniscule to moo / mid - range at best . Annabellewas produce for a mere $ 6.5 million andAnnabelle : Creationwas made for $ 15 million , while the firstConjuring’sproduction cost $ 20 million , andThe Conjuring 2was produced for $ 40 million . And while those numbers do n’t account for any costs spend on selling and distributing the films , they are certain to have a much bigger lucre border than most of their competitors in the marketplace today .
Lucky for Warner Bros. ,The Conjuringuniverse is really only getting started since two spinoff films from characters introduced inThe Conjuring 2 – The NunandThe Crooked Man – are in the works , andThe Conjuring 3is in the enfranchisement ’s future as well . The ravisher for the studio is , there are bound to be characters put in in those films that will be scarey enough to deserve their own spinoffs , in effect have the bound forThe Conjuringuniverse limitless .
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