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# ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ raises a weekend win
- URL: https://www.theomnicosm.com/the-box-office-report-the-exorcist/
- Published: 2023-10-09T11:00:50.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-19T16:02:26.000Z
- Description: Honestly, everyone’s just waiting for the Taylor Swift concert movie to hit theaters next weekend.
- Author: Bill Kuchman
- Tags: Popculturology • The Box Office Report, Popculturology, The Exorcist

Hello! Welcome to **The** **Box Office Report** for the weekend of Oct. 6-8, 2023.

## 1\. The Exorcist: Believer

**Weekend gross:* $27.2M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $27.2M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

For some reason I thought there were like twenty *Exorcist* movies at this point. It turns out *The Exorcist: Believer* is only the sixth movie in the franchise, with 2004’s *Exorcist: The Beginning* and 2005’s *Dominion: Prequel* to the Exorcist being divergent versions of the same movie.

Of the modern *Exorcist* movies, *The Exorcist: Believer* scored the best opening weekend. It’s $27.2 million debut topped the $18.1 million that *Exorcist: The Beginning* opened with in 2004\. Universal Pictures probably isn’t celebrating yet, though, as [the studio reportedly spent $400 million for rights](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/business/exorcist-new-trilogy.html?ref=theomnicosm.com) to a new *Exorcist* trilogy that *Believer* kicks off.

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## 2\. PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie

**Weekend gross:* $11.8M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $38.9M* 
**Last weekend:* 1st* 
**Percent drop:* 48*

The second theatrically released *PAW Patrol* movie is less than $2 million away from topping the lifetime domestic box office haul of its predecessor. The creatively titled *PAW Patrol: The Movie* grossed $40.1 million domestically in 2021.

## 3\. Saw X

**Weekend gross:* $8.2M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $32.6M* 
**Last weekend:* 2nd* 
**Percent drop:* 55*

There may be some life left in the *Saw* franchise. *Saw X* now stands at $32.6 million in North America, jumping past *Spiral* ($23.2 million) and *Saw VI* ($27.7 million) and getting within range of *Jigsaw* ($38.1 million) and *Saw 3D* ($45.7 million).

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## 4\. The Creator

**Weekend gross:* $6.1M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $25M* 
**Last weekend:* 3rd* 
**Percent drop:* 57*

The rough box office continues for *The Creator*. Director **Gareth Edwards**’ latest film fell to No. 4 in its second weekend in theaters.

## 5\. The Blind

**Weekend gross:* $3.1M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $10.5M* 
**Last weekend:* 5th* 
**Percent drop:* 28*

Quack quack quack, **Phil Robertson** movie.

*Box office numbers via* [*The Numbers*](http://www.the-numbers.com/?ref=theomnicosm.com) *based on Sunday estimates.*

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