
After AMC's wild week on Wall Street, theaters hope to scare up a hit box office with 'The Conjuring'
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"The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It," the seventh film in the horror franchise, hits theaters on Friday. It ends a crazy week for the movie theater business that included the return of a blockbuster box office opening and major theater chain AMC having a wild ride on the stock market.
The Warner Bros. film is expected to bring in around $20 million at the North American box office this weekend — a solid performance for a theater business that's still trying to find its post-pandemic footing. (Warner Bros., like CNN, is owned by WarnerMedia.) Theaters owners are hoping a horror sequel can give a much needed boost to the lucrative summer movie season. If that sounds familiar, it should since it's the same storyline of last weekend's box office.
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