Blumhouse and Universal Pictures’ “The Exorcist: Believer” reportedly pulled in $2.85 million in Thursday previews at the U.S. domestic box office.
The David Gordon Green-directed R-rated horror feature is tracking to open to $30-35 million domestically this weekend, the amount covering the movie’s $30 million production budget.
However, it’s not clear if the film’s disastrous reviews (the critic’s score on Rotten Tomatoes is at just 20%) will impact – this is a franchise that is used to terrible reviews for its sequels after all.
The film, arriving fifty years after the original opened, debuts in over forty global markets this weekend. It is reportedly high on the radar of women under 25 with numbers akin to last year’s “Scream”.
The new film serves as a direct sequel to the original. In the film, two girls go missing and come back possessed. Leslie Odom Jr. stars as one of the parents who has never seen anything like this.
So he sets out to find someone who has – none other than Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) many years after the events involving her daughter Regan. Ann Dowd, Lidya Jewett, and Jennifer Nettles also star.
Source: THR
