《安娜贝尔3》DL原文 After basically furnishing the dollhouse by writing the first two Annabelle films from a pitch by The Conjuring creator James Wan to hatch a prequel, screenwriter Gary Dauberman got his chance to make his directing debut on the third installment of the fright franchise. Back for a cameo are perennially haunted paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, with a haunted house, their daughter, a babysitter and the title doll. For our purposes, the results were robust — $231.2 million in worldwide box office — though not equal to the other films in the wildly profitable franchise. Maybe it was too much Conjuring, as Annabelle Comes Home released one year after the 2018 spinoff The Nun, or maybe it was the way that Disney frightfully suffocated early summer rivals with Aladdin and Avengers: Endgame. Fans didn’t like Home as much as previous sequel Creation, giving the latest movie 2 1/2 stars on Comscore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak to its predecessor’s 4 stars. Still, Annabelle Comes Home was one of the few horror movies to work at last year’s global box office.
Even though Annabelle Comes Home is at the bottom of The Conjuring film line, the sequel was a cash cow for New Line thanks to a low production costs of $27M before P&A. Participations of $10M, much of that to producer Wan, are also a factor. Total global revenues across all ancillaries were $207M, yielding a net profit of $64M. That’s below The Conjuring ($161.7M in profit), The Nun ($155M in profit), Annabelle: Creation ($108.7M profit) and The Conjuring 2 ($98.3M profit).