Friday Box Office: ‘Curse of La Llorona’ Impresses with $11.8 Million

In a surprise to pretty much no one, a New Line Cinema horror movie performed well at the box office on Friday.

The 1970s-set thriller The Curse of La Llorona—which is kinda-sorta-not-really a Conjuring-verse movie—pulled in $11.8 million on Friday at the box office and is heading for a weekend tally around $25 million.

That’s above expectations for the pic, which has struggled critically and earned only a B- CinemaScore from audiences.

No matter, the Conjuring-verse spinoff The Nun was a box office smash and that movie bombed with critics.

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