La Llorna Leads a Very Sleepy Weekend
by EG
Easter weekend was extremely quiet at theaters, with horror film The Curse of La Llorona leading the box-office race. The horror flick easily bested Christian drama Breakthrough, but no movie did a huge amount of business on the weekend before Avengers: Endgame is released. Read on for details.
In another win for the horror genre, The Curse of La Llorona opened ahead of expectations at the domestic box office, scaring up $26.5 million to easily win the weekend.
The bad news: The R-rated pic couldn't rescue the domestic box office from the worst Easter in 14 years as Hollywood studios held back releasing their bigger event pics because of Disney and Marvel's Avengers: Endgame, which is set to hit theaters Friday. Revenue came in at an estimated $110 million to $112 million, the lowest since 2005 ($99 million).
La Llorona also topped a slow weekend overseas, taking in $30 million from 71 markets for a global bow of $56.4 million.
Made by New Line for a modest $9 million and produced by Conjuring mastermind James Wan, The Curse of La Llorona is based on a spooky Latin-American supernatural tale about a vengeful ghost who tries to steal kids. Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz and Patricia Velasquez star in the pic, which was helmed by Michael Chaves in his feature directorial debut.
New Line says La Llorona isn't an official installment in the Conjuring universe, despite the film's 1970s setting and the appearance of the character Father Perez (Tony Amendola), who was also in Annabelle.
Get the rest of the story at The Hollywood Reporter.
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