The Conjuring: Last Rites has scored franchise biggest opening weekend.
The film, starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who reprised their roles as paranormal investigators Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren for the final instalment, earned an estimated $194 million worldwide on its opening weekend.
As per several media outlets including Deadline and Variety, the total box office makes the movie's opening weekend the biggest for any horror film ever at the worldwide box office.
The paranormal film has also beat out 2017’s It to make a new worldwide record.
The Hollywood Reporter noted that Last Rites' opening weekend at the box office is also the best opening weekend in the franchise's history and the seventh consecutive Warner Bros. movie to make more than $40 million this year.
It is described as a first for any Hollywood studio.
Directed by Michael Chaves and produced by James Wan and Peter Safran, Last Rites follows Ed and Lorraine as they are recruited by a Pennsylvania couple who asks for help with a violent presence in their home.
The movie is based on the real-life alleged haunting of the Smurl family that the Warrens investigated in 1986.
Farmiga and Wilson co-star in the movie with Mia Tomlinson, Ben Hardy, Rebecca Calder, Elliot Cowan, Steve Coulter, Kila Lord Cassidy and Beau Gadsdon, among others.
The Conjuring: Last Rites is in theatres now.
