The Wolverine Slashes The Conjuring

Set in Japan, and shot at a budget of $120 million, the opening weekend of "The Wolverine" has more than recovered the costs by raking in $55 million in the states and $86.1 million internationally.

And yet, that does not put "The Conjuring" out on a limb. The big news of the weekend is also that the sales of "The Conjuring" dropped just 47 per cent in weekend two. This is a drop almost-unheard-of for a horror movie today. Compare this to movies like "The Devil Inside", "Texas Chainsaw 3D" and "The Purge" who dropped almost 75 per cent in their second weekends while "Evil Dead" also dropped more than 60 per cent.

"The Conjuring" opened at $41.5 million and had held an eye-popping steady at $22 million for its second weekend. In 10 days, this $20-million supernatural thriller has earned about $82 million, making it the seventh highest grossing R-rates supernatural horror movie of all time. Industry experts believe it will cross the $100 million mark easily, and may challenge "The Blair Witch Project" for the number two spot, number one being "The Exorcist". Warner Bros did get its big hit; it just wasn't "Pacific Rim".

And while the budget-to-opening weekend ratio of "The Wolverine" isn't all that great, it's perhaps what Fox expected for the movie has nothing new to offer but Hugh Jackman, Hugh Jackman and Hugh Jackman. The growth does promise to be exponential with a far wider international reach and of course the 3D phenomenon such character-action movies are based upon. The $86.1 million international opening has been the biggest for any X-Men venture and could just prove to being happy tiding to Fox and the mutants. It's now a wait and watch for week 2 for "The Wolverine" and week 3 for "The Conjuring" to see who slashes whom and who posses whom!

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