From Producer James Wan...Annabelle

[Kane52630]

It's more than satisfactory.

 

[Marvolo]

70%

Average Rating: 6.2/10

69 reveiews in so far

 

[Lasirius]

Watching this tonight.

 

[danoyse]

It was pretty good. I didn't like the first movie either, although you should probably be familiar with it, for reasons I won't spoil. Got off to a bit of a slow start, but by the end it was pretty relentless. I liked that most of the jump scares didn't end in fakeouts. When it looked like something was there, something was usually there.

And we do get a brief...

Spoiler

...tease of whatever they're doing for that spinoff movie about the nun.

 

[Guts]

Definitely better than the first movie. It's been a long time since I saw the first one but this one was a lot more darker compared to the other movies in the Conjuring series.

Spoiler

There's more blood, more death, and the ending to this one was darker. In the Conjuring and the Conjuring 2, it ends with the ghost or demon successfully exorcised and everyone in the family is safe. But at the end, Janice was still possessed by Annabelle and the demon managed to kill two people. Also the people in my theater actually clapped when the Raggedy Ann Annabelle doll showed up.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

http://deadline.com/2017/08/annabelle-creation-dark-tower-dunkirk-1202147007/

Nothing horrific going on here. Rivals see New Line/Warner Bros.’ Annabelle: Creation overperforming with $16M-$17M Friday on her way to a $38M-$40M three-day. On the low end, that’s just above her first chapter, 2014’s Annabelle ($37.1M). And there is a shot this prequel spinoff touches the $40M range where The Conjuring movies opened.

Important to note that even if Annabelle 2 comes in below these projections, like in the low to mid $30M range (which isn’t where anyone is seeing it right now), that’s awesome given that New Line spent a song on this with a net production cost of $15M, before prints and advertising.

ComScore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak shows a near 80% overall positive and a four-star audience reaction to Annabelle 2 with younger females under 25 at 32% leading the way to this R-rated horror flick followed by older males 25+ at 28%. Of course, young females love it the most at 83% positive. That demo always travels in packs with 24% of young females attending with one friend and 28% watching Annabelle 2 with two-to-four friends. There’s still a lot of kids off from school with 79% K-12 on summer break but that figure falls to 59% next Friday, 42% on Aug. 25 and 31% by September 1.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

http://deadline.com/2017/08/annabelle-creation-international-box-office-debut-1202146633/

Scaring up business in another 22 markets on Thursday, New Line/Warner Bros’ Annabelle: Creation now has a $9.5M cume in 30. As she continues to expand offshore this weekend, the doll’s dates resulted in $5.6M at the international box office on Thursday. Overseas on this one is particularly interesting to watch since the original Annabelle made over 67% of her cume outside the U.S.

The David F Sandberg-helmed scarer on Thursday scored the highest grossing opening day ever for a foreign horror title in Korea with $1.2M from 593 screens. It landed behind two local pics, where the market is performing despite diplomatic tensions which appear to have little impact on moviegoing.

Russia‘s debut was $582K on 1,246 screens for No. 2. The day surpassed the openings of all the previous films in the Conjuring franchise.

Australia posted $302K from 231 screens and ranked No. 1. The score is 28% ahead of The Conjuring and tracking close behind the opening of Annabelle-the-first.

Also noteworthy: Hong Kong provided the biggest opening day ever for a Hollywood horror film, and Portugal saw the best horror launch day ever.

In holds, France still had the highest per-screen average with $551K total from 73K tickets sold on 262 screens (it’s on less screens there than the other new entries to the market). The running cume is $1.3M.

Indonesia, a top market on this doll’s previous outing, cracked $546K on 744 screens Thursday to hold No. 1. The cume is $1M.

Sweden is also No. 1 again, with a two-day total of $338K on 88 screens to best all films in the franchise.

 

[samsnee]

Can someone spoiler me on this? I thought the first Annabelle showed how the doll became the evil. So this retcons it?

 

[Matt Mortem]

Can someone spoiler me on this? I thought the first Annabelle showed how the doll became the evil. So this retcons it?

Spoiler

The ending of this one goes right into the last origin flick, or whatever. This is just an extended origin.

 

[Marvolo]

It has dropped into the 60s on RT.com.

 

[The Chris]

Another example (like Ouija 2), of how important having a superior director is. This is so much better than the first, which i found dull and lifeless. Now i can take The Conjuring Universe thing more seriously since now one of the spinoff films works. I hope "The Nun" continues this.

 

[Guts]

Can someone spoiler me on this? I thought the first Annabelle showed how the doll became the evil. So this retcons it?

Spoiler

A young girl named Annabelle dies in a car accident. Her father is a dollmaker. Annabelle's parents think they have been communicating with her ghost, so they invite her into one of the dolls and later they find out that it was actually a demon. Years later they turn their home into an orphanage and one of the girls gets possessed by the demon inhabiting the Annabelle doll. Later that girl gets adopted and she's using the name Annabelle. She grows up and breaks into her adoptive parent's home and kills them. Which is the opening scene from the first Annabelle movie.

 

[Incarnadine]

This was pretty decent, which for me is a glowing review since horror is my least favorite genre so I see very few horror movies. I'm pretty sure the last one I saw in theaters was The Conjuring.
This will be a rare year for me since I'm planning to see IT as well making 2 horror movies in 1 year.

 

[Kane52630]

I'll write my full review later, but I really enjoyed it. I think we all can agree it's so much better than the first one. It is pretty much this years Ouija 2.

 

[Kane52630]

Not the best start.

70%

Average Rating: 6.2/10

69 reveiews in so far

It has dropped into the 60s on RT.com.

 

[harlequinade]

What's the after credits scene?

 

[Kane52630]

What's the after credits scene?

Spoiler

It cuts to some cathedral hallway (i'm assuming) in Romania in 1967 and you see the nun from The Conjuring walking towards the camera as the candles are being lit out and then you see her.

 

[harlequinade]

Spoiler

It cuts to some cathedral hallway (i'm assuming) in Romania in 1967 and you see the nun from The Conjuring walking towards the camera as the candles are being lit out and then you see her.

Oh my god

Spoiler

I'm so psyched for that Nun movie

 

[Guts]

Spoiler

It cuts to some cathedral hallway (i'm assuming) in Romania in 1967 and you see the nun from The Conjuring walking towards the camera as the candles are being lit out and then you see her.

I didn't even know this movie had an after credit scene and I didn't stay long enough to find out.

 

[Matt Mortem]

The Double Toasted guys said it wasn't worth sticking around for so I didn't. Oh well. I'm interested in the Nun movie, but doesn't seem like I missed anything in the after credits.

 

[The Shape]

Yeah, who really cares at this point?

 

[The Shape]

The Nun movie should be pretty wild.

 

[harlequinade]

The Nun movie should be pretty wild.

I just realized today that the woman who plays her played the bum behind the Winkies in Mulholland Dr

The cast is lovely for this one, so cool that Vera's little sister was cast

 

[harlequinade]

The director of the movie is providing some awesome responses here https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...cussion_annabelle_creation_spoilers/?sort=top

 

[Guts]

The Double Toasted guys said it wasn't worth sticking around for so I didn't. Oh well. I'm interested in the Nun movie, but doesn't seem like I missed anything in the after credits.

And there was already a Nun tease when Mr. Mullins notices the extra person in Charlotte's photo.