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# With zero real competition, ‘The Nun II’ wins the weekend again
- URL: https://www.theomnicosm.com/the-box-office-report-with-zero-real/
- Published: 2023-09-25T11:00:44.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-19T16:04:06.000Z
- Description: Sylvester Stallone and his ‘Expendfourables’ fails the box office challenge.
- Author: Bill Kuchman
- Tags: Popculturology • The Box Office Report, Popculturology, The Nun

Hello! Welcome to **The** **Box Office Report** for the weekend of Sept. 22-24, 2023.

## 1\. The Nun II

**Weekend gross:* $8.4M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $69.2M* 
**Last weekend:* 1st* 
**Percent drop:* 42*

What a dud of a weekend at the box office. *The Nun II* held on for its third straight No. 1, but the latest film in the *Conjuring* universe owes the victory to the lack of any real competition.

The box office should pick up next weekend, with *The Creator* and *Saw X* opening and *Dumb Money* going wide.

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## 2\. Expend4bles

**Weekend gross:* $8.3M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $8.3M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

This was the worst opening weekend for the *Expendables* franchise. After an almost decade-long absence, *Expendfourables* could only muster up $8.3 million in its debut — a little more than half of the $15.9 million that *The Expendables 3* opened with in 2014.

## 3\. A Haunting in Venice

**Weekend gross:* $6.3M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $25.4M* 
**Last weekend:* 2nd* 
**Percent drop:* 56*

*A Haunting in Venice* is in lockstep with the pace of its predecessor, *Death on the Nile*. Through its first two weekends, the previous film in **Kennth Branaugh**’s Hercules Poirot series had grossed $25,290,673\. *A Haunting in Venice*? $25,352,729.

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## 4\. The Equalizer 3

**Weekend gross:* $4.7M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $81.3M* 
**Last weekend:* 3rd* 
**Percent drop:* 35*

The third *Equalizer* film, however, has dipped off the pace established by the first two movies in that franchise. Both *The Equalizer* and *The Equalizer 2* had cross the $89 million mark through their fourth weekends. **Denzel Washington**’s latest, though, now falls about $8 million behind that tracking.

## 5\. Barbie

**Weekend gross:* $3.2M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $630.5M* 
**Last weekend:* 5th* 
**Percent drop:* 16*

A few weekends ago, I thought we were going to see *Barbie* drop out of the top five. With its tenth weekend in theaters now in the books, *Barbie* managed to hang around for another weekend.

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

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