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.House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik delivered remarks at the Israeli Knesset Sunday, saying victory for Israel in the war against Hamas starts with “wiping” those responsible for the October 7 terrorist attacks “off the face of the Earth” and calling for a return to former President Donald Trump’s policies.
President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.