When you’re hot, you’re hot. That could apply to either Warner Bros. or the Conjuring Universe. This weekend a streak was continued and a monthly top five was broached by a series that may have been teetering with its third chapter but is certainly going out with a bang, sparking a jumpstart to what many expected to be a less-than-lucrative fall season.

King of the Crop: The Conjuring: Last Rites

The Conjuring Universe, started by James Wan in 2013, has been a lucrative franchise for Warner Bros. The three previous Conjuring films alone were responsible for over $844 million worldwide. Throw in a trio of Annabelle films, worth $793 million in their own right, and a couple of Nun s, good for $635.5 million, and you are talking over $2.27 billion in global grosses. That might ma

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