New Movie Releases Sept. 13-15: 'Insidious 2' and 'The Family'

If you want to go out this weekend and see a just-released movie, your options remain limited this week, although you can choose between twice as many new movies this week as you could last week.

The two new wide releases this week include "Insidious 2" and "The Family." The former is a sequel to the 2011 horror film, and the latter is a comedy featuring Robert De Niro as a mob informant laying low with his family in small-town France.

"Insidious 2" will likely be the biggest draw of the weekend. Audiences have shown a taste for horror films so far this year, and this one is from the same director, James Wan, and stars the same actor, Patrick Wilson, as the summer's biggest horror hit, "The Conjuring." "Insidious 2" got off to a more sluggish start than Wan's previous hit, though; "Insidious 2" took in $1.5 million on Thursday night, which is less than half the opening-night gross of "The Conjuring."

Prospects for "The Family" are not as bright. De Niro's box-office performance hasn't been stellar lately, and the role of grumpy, intimidating patriarch is one that he's been playing over and over again in recent years. The film's premise is also superficially similar to "We're the Millers," the summer's biggest comedy hit; whether that turns out to be a plus or a minus remains to be seen.