SATURDAY AM: Warner Bros hasn’t sent out numbers yet, but we’re hearing that New Line’s The Conjuring: Last Rites is heading for a far bigger weekend than anticipated now to be around $75M plus or minus after an estimated $34.6M Friday, which includes previews. Whether Conjuring scares up to $80M or eases back into the low $70M comes down to Saturday, rival estimates seeing a -20% to -24% hold versus that Friday/previews figure.

We already told you that’s easily an opening record for a Conjuring movie and the best start for a horror movie this year. Talk about great vibes. We thought we’d begin September on an OK note, and here we have the box office overperforming. CinemaScore is a B, which is higher than the Nuns C-range scores, and on the lower-end of the Conjuring cor

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