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Ranking The Insidious Franchise Movies At The Worldwide Box Office( Photo Credit – YouTube )

The Insidious film series starring the Conjuring fame Patrick Wilson is among the most famous horror franchises. The series has five movies, and a sixth installment was announced earlier this year. The popularity has grown so much that a spin-off film is also developing. Today, we bring you the global collections of Insidious movies and rank them to see which part has raked in more money. Scroll below for the deets.

Leigh Whannell and James Wan created the horror franchise. It has been produced by Blumhouse in association with Sony’s Stage 6 Films. The first film came out in 2010. Lin Shaye, as Elise Rainier, appeared in all five films, while Patrick appeared in the first two movies as a full-length character and then in the fifth installment, which came out in 2023.

In May this year, a new Insidious film was announced,...

Ranking The Insidious Franchise Movies At The Worldwide Box Office( Photo Credit – YouTube )

The Insidious film series starring the Conjuring fame Patrick Wilson is among the most famous horror franchises. The series has five movies, and a sixth installment was announced earlier this year. The popularity has grown so much that a spin-off film is also developing. Today, we bring you the global collections of Insidious movies and rank them to see which part has raked in more money. Scroll below for the deets.

Leigh Whannell and James Wan created the horror franchise. It has been produced by Blumhouse in association with Sony’s Stage 6 Films. The first film came out in 2010. Lin Shaye, as Elise Rainier, appeared in all five films, while Patrick appeared in the first two movies as a full-length character and then in the fifth installment, which came out in 2023.

In May this year, a new Insidious film was announced,...

For many of us, spooky season lasts all year long, especially if you are a fan of horror movies. But with The Conjuring (and its direct sequels) leaving Netflix as of Sept. 30, you may be wondering if there are any similar horror movies you can still watch to get through the rest of the official spooky season.

While The Conjuring is definitely a favorite, there actually are quite a few alternatives on Netflix that are worth watching at least once. And they include at least one movie featuring Ed Warren himself, Patrick Wilson.

The Haunting in Connecticut

The fact that this story starts with a real life trauma thanks to a cancer diagnosis makes this horror movie that much more engaging. According to the very simply synopsis offered by Netflix, "A family's move to Connecticut takes a dark turn when shocking paranormal events reveal that their new home is a...

“Tell Me Lies” Season 2 has finally arrived, welcoming back fan favorites as well as new additions to the cast.

Grace Van Patten and Jackson White return as Lucy and Stephen, respectively, who reunite at college as exes following their dramatic breakup at the beginning of summer. The exes have to deal with not only the fallout of their split, but also the ripple effects that Season 1’s dramatics had on their friend group.

Season 2 will also welcome in several new faces to the fold, including “Gossip Girl” star Thomas Doherty and “Lucifer” star Tom Ellis.

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Grace Van Patten as Lucy Albright

Grace Van Patten returns as Lucy Albright, now a sophomore in college who recently went through a dramatic breakup with Stephen after dating her for most of her freshman year. She is close friends with Bree and Pippa, who also became entangled with Stephen’s friend group of upperclassmen.

The "Insidious" franchise shows no signs of stopping. There's both a spin-off movie and a new sequel on the way, and the most recent entry, "The Red Door," was a big hit in 2023. And for the most part, this horror series has remained strong. Not every film works, but the majority of the entries are solid scare-fests full of all sorts of spooky mayhem. The series kicked-off all the way back in 2011 with James Wan's "Insidious," and now here we are all these years later, still waiting for more. With that in mind, why don't we go back through the entire franchise so far and rank the titles, from worst to best? Come along with us into the Further and watch out for jump-scares.

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Insidious: The Last Key

The "Insidious" franchise did a curious thing: it introduced a character, killed her off,...

One of horror's most reliable franchises is coming back for a brand new installment next summer. While little has been revealed by way of specifics, Sony Pictures has dated "Insidious 6" for next summer. The film is now due to hit theaters on August 29, 2025, per Variety. Mark your calendars and plan accordingly, supernatural lovers of the world.

What's truly interesting is that this is just one of two new "Insidious" movies in the works at the moment. Sony and Blumhouse Productions are also collaborating on a spin-off titled "Thread: An Insidious Tale," which will star Mandy Moore ("47 Meters Down") and Kumail Nanjiani ("Eternals"). Jeremy Slater ("Moon Knight") set to write and direct. In short, the long-running franchise is expanding after taking a five-year break between 2018's "Insidious: The Last Key" and last year's "Insidious: The Red Door."

Dating back to director James Wan's original breakout hit "Insidious" in 2011, this franchise has been remarkably consistent.

Insidious might have had the shortest film retirement ever. Sony has set a release date for a sixth film in the franchise, August 29, 2025.

The news comes a little over a year after Blumhouse founder Jason Blum told Discussing Film that the fifth movie, Insidious: The Red Door, would be the last one "for a while." Adding that the franchise would go into a "very long rest," and potentially be revisited in ten years or so.

But to be fair to Blum, he did that interview before The Red Door made a killing at the box office, proving there is still fanfare for the popular horror franchise.

The Red Door, which marked star Patrick Wilson's directorial debut, outgrossed all four previous Insidious movies and became one of the highest-grossing horror movies of 2023, raking in over $189 million worldwide.

Sony did not reveal any plans for the sixth Insidious film, just the release date.

A new entry in the “Insidious” franchise has been set for the theaters. The next installment of the Blumhouse Productions horror property, co-produced by Screen Gems, has been added to Sony’s theatrical slate, with the studio dating the film for an Aug. 29, 2025 release.

No further details on the project were disclosed, including whether series regulars such as Patrick Wilson and Leigh Whannell would be involved. The newly announced feature is different from “Thread: An Insidious Tale,” an in-universe series spin-off that was first reported on by Deadline in May 2023 and is said to star Mandy Moore and Kumail Nanjiani, with Jeremy Slater attached to write and direct.

Barring no other “Insidious” installments releasing before this newly announced one, this would mark the sixth entry in the horror franchise and the first since last year’s “Insidious: The Red Door,” which saw actors Patrick Wilson and Ty Simpkins return to...

Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering the conversation in 2023 were the streamers, such as Apple, who have also realized the necessity of theatrical to eventize their movies. The financial data pulled together here for Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament is culled by seasoned and trusted sources.

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Anyone But You

Sony/Columbia Pictures

Net Profit: $103M

Sony development executive Maia Eyre brought this Will Gluck-Ilana Wolpert project into the studio. Mix in the genius, sizzling-hot pairing of Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney and Top Gun: Maverick‘s Glen Powell and you get a long holiday honeymoon for...

Universal, Blumhouse and co-producer James Wan took us for a Night Swim in theaters over the weekend, with the Bryce McGuire-directed horror movie becoming the genre’s very first theatrical release of the new year. Was it a strong start for the horror genre, you ask?

Night Swim debuted in 3,250 theaters across the United States over the weekend, opening to $12 million domestically. Worldwide, the film scared up $17.6 million in its debut.

Here’s the day-to-day breakdown here in the United States:

Friday, January 5: $5,250,000 Saturday, January 6: $4,180,000 Sunday, January 7: $2,570,000

For the sake of comparison, Blumhouse’s M3GAN was released in January of last year, and the viral appeal of the title character drove the film to a $30 million domestic opening. Granted, nobody in their right mind expected Night Swim to perform the way M3GAN did.

Other recent Blumhouse releases and their domestic opening weekend totals include Five Nights at Freddy’s...

North America Box Office: Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan Becomes The Only Indian Film Beating Even Oppenheimer To Get #1 Movie Tag In 2023… ( Photo Credit – IMDb )

It looks like it’s Shah Rukh Khan’s box office day today because just after writing about his unmatched stardom in Germany, we’re back with yet another record he created in 2023, and this time it’s North America. Amidst the bundle of many memorable films in the year, Yash Raj Films’ Pathaan became the only Indian film to earn this prestigious record.

Pathaan released on 25th January 2023 when James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water was ruling the American box office. It not only managed to grab a day from it to become the top-grossing domestic movie in North America but also became the only Indian film to do so.

On its opening day, Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan earned $1.50 million in North America,...

Hollywood has always been enamored of franchises. Universal became synonymous with horror movies in the 1930s with their Classic Monsters run, while MGM mined Mickey Rooney's Andy Hardy character for 16 films. And then there's the "Blondie" series based on Chic Young's comic strip, which Columbia Pictures wrung bone dry for a staggering 28 installments.

For the most part, these films were produced quickly and cheaply for a quick score at the box office. It wasn't until 1962, when United Artists made a killing with the first James Bond movie ("Dr. No"), that studios began to view franchises as cash cows. With the subsequent success of the "Pink Panther" and "Planet of the Apes" movies, the industry became increasingly eager to turn its blockbusters into ongoing sagas. This filmmaking approach went into hyperdrive in 1977 with the unprecedented phenomenon of "Star Wars." From that point forward, Hollywood quickly became a franchise-driven town.

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It may seem hard to believe, but the Insidious franchise is getting long in the tooth! The first Insidious movie was released all the way back in 2010, kickstarting an unlikely string of movies under the watchful eye of Saw horror duo Leigh Whannell and James Wan.

At first, the franchise focused on the Lambert family, whose move to a new home coincided with their son Dalton falling into a mysterious coma. They soon found out that it wasn’t their home that was haunted, but their family. Thanks to the Lamberts’ ability to astral project their consciousnesses, they can access “The Further”, a purgatory dimension where they’re at risk of attracting restless spirits, demonic and otherwise.

The Further has been a central part of Insidious lore ever since, with two prequel movies telling stories outside of the Lambert family drama. But the heart of the...

It’s a new month, which means a plethora of new titles arriving on streaming. While Halloween may be in the rearview, there’s still plenty of horror to keep us busy this holiday season.

So here’s a quick, handy guide for horror streaming in November 2023. This month’s noteworthy streaming titles spotlight new releases, rare repertory offerings, and more.

Here are ten noteworthy horror titles available for streaming in November 2023 on some of the most popular streaming services, along with when/where you can watch them.

Black Friday – Crackle, Redbox (November 1)

A raucous creature feature that captures the horrors of shopping on Black Friday. Set within a toy store, it follows a group of disgruntled employees as they begrudgingly arrive for work on the busiest day of the year for retail. Meanwhile, an alien parasite crashes into Earth via meteor. The employees’ rough night gets exponentially worse when their shoppers become bloodthirsty monsters.

Netflix is nothing if not a goldmine of content, with basically something to watch for everyone, and today we are making a list of the best new movies coming to Netflix in November 2023 that you can watch in the upcoming month. The movies in this list are ranked according to their availability dates.

Locked In (November 1)

Synopsis: A romantic crime thriller pitting unhappy newlywed Lina against her rich, coldhearted mother-in-law Katherine. An affair sets off a chain reaction that will result in a love triangle, a murder and plot to bring Lina down. But who is the real victim and who can Lina trust?

Wingwomen (November 1)

Synopsis: Voleuses ,is the new film of Mélanie Laurent with Adèle Exarchopoulos, Mélanie Laurent, Manon Bresch, Philippe Katerine, Felix Moati and Isabelle Adjani in the role of Marraine.

The Social Network (November 1)

Synopsis: David Fincher’s The Social Network is the stunning tale of...

The latest feature from David Fincher, a big-budget drama series from Steven Knight and Shawn Levy, and an Oscar hopeful starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster are among the standout new additions hitting Netflix in November.

With The Killer, Fincher reteams with Seven writer Andrew Kevin Walker to adapt the graphic novel written by Alexis Nolent. The film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival this year and debuts on Netflix on Nov. 10, stars Michael Fassbender as a shadowy unnamed assassin and features a cast that includes Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Gabriel Polanco, Kerry O’Malley, Emiliano Pernía, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte and Tilda Swinton.

The Hollywood Reporter‘s review of The Killer described the film as “a satisfyingly retro, location-hopping genre exercise with fisticuffs, gadgets (albeit ones bought from Amazon) and smooth-talking antagonists that all plays like a tongue-in-cheek spoof of James Bond movies.”

All the Light We Cannot See...

Netflix’s slate for November 2023 has much to offer as the transition from Halloween to Thanksgiving and eventually Christmas begins. Many favorite movies such as Jennifer Garner’s “13 Going on 30” and “The Big Lebowski” arrive Nov. 1, while Garner’s new movie “The Family Switch” rounds out the month when it arrives on the streamer Nov. 30. Other can’t-miss film arrivals on November first include “Whiplash,” “Sixteen Candles,” “The Social Network” and “Pitch Perfect.”

Several new seasons of Netflix shows arrive this month as well, the most highly anticipated of which might be “The Crown” Season 6 Part 1. The first half of the final season of the royal drama series arrives Nov. 16. The limited series adaptation of “All the Light We Cannot See” by Shawn Levy and Steven Knight launches November 2. Levy directed all four episodes of the epic drama series, adapted from the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr.

November on Netflix is peppered with curiosities for just about everyone. This month will see the long-awaited adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s award-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See hit the streamer. Directed by Shawn Levy (The Adam Project) and starring Mark Ruffalo, the limited series will tell the emotional story of a blind French girl who meets a German soldier in the final days of WWII.

Elsewhere, Netflix will unveil its first expansion of its planned Squid Game universe with an actual competition show that will challenge 456 players to be the final winner of no less than $4.56 million. Squid Game: The Challenge will feature games recreated from the hit 2021 show, hopefully with a comparatively zero chance of death for the contestants!

For those who are awaiting the return of their favorite Netflix shows in a more fictional capacity, however, we can confirm that Selling Sunset season seven, The Tailor season three,...

Clockwise from top: Nyad (Netflix), The Killer (Netflix), Insidious: The Red Door (Screen Gems) Image: The A.V. Club As we prepare for Thanksgiving and holiday gatherings, Netflix is loading up with recent theatrical hits and original movies for the streamer’s subscribers to gobble up. Insidious: The Red Door...

It appears that we here at /Film are in collective agreement: November is the perfect month to catch up on all the spooky season stuff you didn't get around to in October. Great Thanksgiving films are few and far between, and unless you're just really into the winter holidays, it's too early to start diving into your favorite films and series about Christmas, Hanukkah, you name it. Plus, this is also the time of year when studios begin marching out their awards contenders in droves, so you've got to make room for those as well.

Case in point: For years now, November has seen Netflix roll out its first wave of serious Oscar hopefuls, and 2023 will be very much business as usual in that respect. That's not to say it's all prestige offerings and biopics for the next four weeks. For example, "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" fans will finally...

The streaming release date for Insidious: The Red Door may have been revealed thanks to a new report. 

The Red Door came out in theaters back in July, marking the fifth installment in the long-running Insidious franchise. 

Starring Patrick Wilson and Rose Bryne, the terrifying blockbuster earned a respectable $188 million at the worldwide box office (on a $16 million budget) which was enough to become the highest-grossing film in the series. 

Read full article on The Direct.

Are the movies back? It’s an open question, one that is curiously thorny to unpack right now considering that much of Hollywood remains on pause. Yes, the WGA strike finally ended when studios at last agreed to fairly pay their writers and find common ground on their demands related to artificial intelligence. However, the SAG-AFTRA strike continues on in the background. Hence major studio tentpoles like Dune: Part Two leaving to find greener pastures.

Still, after what seemed like an anemic summer following the failures of old studio standby franchises via DC and Indiana Jones, and others that just massively underperformed Fast X, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One), folks were wondering if audiences were tired of the movies. Then the gift of Barbenheimer occurred. It turns out audiences were incredibly excited… to at least see Barbie and Oppenheimer. However, does this mean they’re excited to see much else?...

Charlotte Regan’s debut took more than £1,000 per cinema.

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Aug 25-27)Total gross to date Week 1. Barbie (Warner Bros) £1.9m £89.6m 6 2. Oppenheimer (Universal) £1.6m £53.7m 6 3. Meg 2: The Trench (Warner Bros) £776,085 £11.5m 4 4. Andre Rieu’s 2023 Maastricht Concert: Love Is All Around (Piece of Magic) £770,000 £770,000 1 5. Blue Beetle (Warner Bros) £767,682 £3.1m 2

Scrapper, the debut feature from 2020 Screen Star of Tomorrow Charlotte Regan, made a strong start at the UK-Ireland box office, recording the best location average of any new title this weekend (August 25-27).

The film, about a young girl living alone who is forced to confront reality when her estranged father returns,...

Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth film in the Insidious horror franchise (you can read our review Here) and the highest-grossing entry in the franchise at the worldwide box office, reached theatres on July 7th, then a digital release followed on August 1st. Now we know the film will be reaching physical media on September 12th, and copies of the Blu-ray and DVD releases can be pre-ordered at This Link!

The film reaches Blu-ray and DVD with two featurettes: A Possessed Director and The Family: Past, Present, Further.

Insidious: The Red Door marks the feature directorial debut of Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2 star Patrick Wilson. The screenplay was written by Halloween Kills co-writer Scott Teems, based on an idea from Leigh Whannell, who created the franchise with James Wan. The story catches up with the family from the first two films, the Lamberts, ten years after the end of...

"Insidious: The Red Door" crept into theaters back at the beginning of July, and just over a month later, the horror sequel became the most successful movie in the entire "Insidious" franchise. Not bad for a film series that began over 12 years ago. It just goes to show you that horror is still a big winner at the box office, even when it's not October, and franchise films can still be profitable, as long as you don't spend a quarter of a million dollars to make them. 

Before "The Red Door," it had been 10 years since we had an "Insidious" movie focusing on the Lambert family, played by Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Ty Simpkins. This sequel catches up with a grown up Dalton (played again by Ty Simpkins), the kid who was possessed in the first movie after becoming entangled in a spirit world known as The Further, as he heads to art school,...

"Insidious: The Red Door" may already be on VOD but the movie is continuing its incredible hot streak a the box office. The fifth entry in the series had already managed to secure its place as the highest-grossing entry in this particular franchise but now, it stands alone as the biggest horror movie of 2023 overall. Despite its digital release, the film had another solid weekend and gets to claim this coveted title -- at least for now.

Thanks to another $1 million weekend at the domestic box office, "The Red Door" has now earned $182.4 million worldwide, per Box Office Mojo. That means it now takes the crown as the highest-grossing horror movie of the year. The title previously belonged to "M3GAN," which earned $179.9 million earlier this year as one of 2023's first legitimate blockbuster hits. The difference is that "M3GAN" was an original movie that managed to break through the noise,...

Officially the highest grossing film in the entire Insidious franchise, the Patrick Wilson-directed Insidious: The Red Door just passed another major milestone over the weekend.

The worldwide total for Insidious: The Red Door as of this writing is $182,430,087, which makes the franchise’s fifth installment the highest grossing horror movie of 2023 to date!

The previous worldwide record holder for the horror genre this year was Universal’s big time success M3GAN, which finished its run with $180 million earlier this year.

Other horror movies this year that have come close to Insidious: The Red Door‘s record-holding amount include Scream VI ($168.9 million) and Evil Dead Rise ($146.7 million).

In just its first few days of release, Meg 2: The Trench has already gobbled up $142 million worldwide, so it’s only a matter of time before it completely smashes down The Red Door.

But for now, the new Insidious movie holds the crown.

With this weekend’s grosses, Sony/Screen Gems/Stage 6 Films/Blumhouse’s Insidious: The Red Door has become the biggest horror movie of the year globally at $182.5M. It edged the worldwide cume of Blumhouse’s own M3GAN ($180.8M) which is now the No. 2 horror title of 2023 to date. The current Red Door frame was worth $2.5M from 59 overseas markets for an international cume of $101.8M. Through Sunday, the Insidious franchise has earned over $735M worldwide.

Already last frame, the Patrick Wilson-directed and starring fifth in the series had become the highest-grossing of the 13-year-old franchise. The Red Door is a direct continuation of the first two movies and also stars Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye and Leigh Whannell.

When it originally opened in early July, it nabbed the top launch for a horror title since 2019 internationally. Domestically, it bowed at No. 1, higher than the last...

‘Barbie’ enters all-time top 20; ‘Oppenheimer’ in top 100, passes ‘Inception’.

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Aug 4-6)Total gross to date Week 1. Barbie (Warner Bros) £7.9m £67.5m 3 2. Oppenheimer (Universal) £5.5m £38.2m 3 3. Meg 2: The Trench (Warner Bros) £3.8m £3.8m 1 4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount) £1.7m £3.7m 1 5. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount) £1m £22.8m 4

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Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has entered the all-time UK-Ireland box office top 20, adding a further £7.9m on its third weekend to hit a £67.5m total.

The Warner Bros blockbuster is the 18th highest-grossing film of all time in the territory,...

Update: A big weekend at the box office with something for everyone and notable milestones including Barbie crossing the $1B global mark while Oppenheimer topped $550M, as we noted earlier. In new plays, Meg 2: The Trench opened to a strong $142M global and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem started rollout with $8.5M in just 30% of its offshore footprint (global was $51.6M). Meanwhile, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is nearing $500M worldwide and Insidious: The Red Door has become the top-grossing horror movie of the year at $182.5M.

Also in the mix, Disney crossed $4B worldwide, the first studio to do so this year. Of the total $4.005B, $1.595B is from domestic and $2.41B from the international box office, powered by such titles as Avatar: The Way of Water, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, The Little Mermaid, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Elemental and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

“Insidious: The Red Door” is a 2023 supernatural horror film directed by Patrick Wilson, marking his directorial debut, and features a screenplay by Scott Teems based on a story by Leigh Whannell and Teems. Serving as a direct sequel to Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), this film is the fifth installment in the Insidious franchise. Notably, James Wan, the original director, is involved as a producer, alongside Jason Blum through his Blumhouse Productions banner. The cast includes Ty Simpkins, Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Andrew Astor, Steve Coulter, Joseph Bishara, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, Lin Shaye, Sinclair Daniel, and Hiam Abbass.

Storyline

The film follows Josh Lambert (Wilson) and his son Dalton (Simpkins) as they move to a new house in New York City. However, Dalton’s college dream soon becomes a living nightmare when the repressed demons of his past suddenly return to haunt them both.

Movie Review Insidious: The Red Door...

After five years, “Insidious” is taking fans to the Further once more with “Insidious: The Red Door.” The latest installment is now available on Digital, which means now is the perfect time to catch up on the creepy franchise (or experience it for the first time). Beginning with “Insidious” in 2010, the horror films center around a family who finds themselves haunted by demons from another realm, along with the people who try to help them.

Created by horror veteran Leigh Whannell (who also created the “Saw” franchise along with James Wan), each installment of the “Insidious” takes viewers deeper into the Further, a nightmarish dimension populated by tortured spirits and ruled over by a malevolent demon. “The Red Door” will be the fifth installment in the franchise, and will once again focus on the Lambert family, with Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Ty Simpkins all reprising their roles from the first two films.

While "Insidious: The Red Door" may be nearing the end of its box office run (it's available on Digital as of today), the movie is rounding out its time in theaters on a high note. With its most recent weekend in the books, Patrick Wilson's feature directorial debut now stands alone as the highest-grossing entry in the wildly successful horror franchise.

As of this writing, "The Red Door" has earned $174.8 million worldwide (per The Numbers), meaning it has overtaken 2018's "Insidious: The Last Key" ($172.8 million) to become the biggest entry in the series to date. For Sony Pictures, the best part is that the movie carries an extremely reasonable $16 million production budget. Even better? That still makes it the most expensive film of the five that have been released thus far. These movies have been made on the cheap and have consistently delivered the goods. In this case, it...

I haven’t seen much chatter about Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth film in the Insidious horror franchise (you can read our review Here), but movie-goers have obviously been showing up for it. The film had a very successful opening weekend, drawing in $32.65 million at the domestic box office and $64 million worldwide on a budget that’s said to be around $16 million. Now The Numbers has confirmed that Insidious: The Red Door has managed to become the highest-grossing film in the franchise at the worldwide box office. It’s currently sitting at a total of $174,382,000, surpassing its predecessor Insidious: The Last Key‘s final count of $172,811,971. And its theatrical run isn’t over yet.

As of right now, Insidious: The Red Door‘s domestic number sits at $78,082,000, so Insidious: Chapter 2 still holds the domestic record of $83,586,447. But if The Red Door can manage to pull in another $5 million and change at home,...

In its fourth week of release in theaters, the Patrick Wilson-directed Insidious: The Red Door found itself in the #9 spot on the domestic box office charts this past weekend, officially crossing a major milestone for the franchise. The Red Door, primarily a sequel to the first two Insidious movies, is now the highest grossing film in the entire Insidious franchise.

The worldwide total for Insidious: The Red Door as of this writing is $174,381,584, passing Insidious: The Last Key‘s former franchise-best worldwide total of $167,885,588.

The Red Door has scared up $78 million of its franchise best total here in the United States, while a massive $96 million of the film’s total has been earned internationally.

Over the weekend, the film made another $3 million here in the United States.

The production budget for The Red Door was reportedly a mere $16 million, so the fifth franchise installment has proven to be incredibly...

Baters

It’s nearly time to close out the month of July, which has been another scorching hot one for Trace and me. We kicked things off with Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) to coincide with our coverage of The Red Door, then we talked about another sequel to celebrate the two-year anniversary of Adam Robitel’s Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021).

Now we’re up to a huge milestone: Alfred Hitchcock‘s Psycho (1960) aka one of the original slasher prototypes. In the iconic film, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) steals $40K from her crappy job before stopping at the abandoned Bates Motel. There she meets young proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) who seems a little…off.

Unfortunately for Marion, soon afterward she’s brutally murdered in the shower by Mother, setting off a chain reaction as first private investigator Arbogast (Martin Balsam), then Marion’s lover Sam Loomis (John Gavin) and her...

’Barbenheimer’ helps drive top 10 titles to powerful $783m weekend total.

Worldwide box office Jul 21-23 RankFilm (distributor) 3-day (world) 3-day (world)3-day (int’l)Cume (int’l)Territories 1. Barbie (Warner Bros) $337m $337m $182m $182m 70 2. Oppenheimer (Universal) $174m $174m $93m $93m 79 3. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount) $74.5m $370.8m $55m $252.1m 72 4. Creation Of The Gods (various) $42.5m $53.5m $42.5m $53.5m 1 5. Chang An San Wan Li (various) $40.3m $165.3m $40.3m $165.3m 1 6. Advancing Of Zq (various) $31m $31m $31m $31m 1 7. Elemental (Disney) $24.1m $356.6m $18.3m $219.4m 52 8. Never Say Never (various) $20.5m $255.7m $20.5m $255.7m 1 9. Sound Of Freedom (Angel) $20.1m $155.8m...

’Barbenheimer’ helps drive top 10 titles to powerful $783m weekend total.

Worldwide box office Jul 21-23 RankFilm (distributor) 3-day (world) 3-day (world)3-day (int’l)Cume (int’l)Territories 1. Barbie (Warner Bros) $337m $337m $182m $182m 70 2. Oppenheimer (Universal) $174m $174m $93m $93m 79 3. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount) $74.5m $370.8m $55m $252.1m 72 4. Creation Of The Gods (various) $42.5m $53.5m $42.5m $53.5m 1 5. Chang An San Wan Li (various) $40.3m $165.3m $40.3m $165.3m 1 6. Advancing Of Zq (various) $31m $31m $31m $31m 1 7. Elemental (Disney) $24.1m $356.6m $18.3m $219.4m 52 8. Never Say Never (various) $20.5m $255.7m $20.5m $255.7m 1 9. Sound Of Freedom (Angel) $20.1m $155.8m...

In its second weekend of release, fifth franchise installment Insidious: The Red Door has been bumped to the #3 spot on the domestic box office charts, largely thanks to chart-topping new release Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. But that’s not bad news for the new Insidious movie, which has now officially passed the $100 million landmark.

Worldwide, Insidious: The Red Door has scared up $122,585,554, $58 million of which was made here in the United States. The international number is currently $64.5 million.

To date, the highest total worldwide number for the franchise is $167.8 million (Insidious: The Last Key), so that’s currently the number for Insidious: The Red Door to beat.

Will The Red Door become the highest grossing movie in the Insidious franchise in the coming weeks? We’ll be keeping a close eye on the box office charts. Stay tuned.

It’s important to note that the production budget...

The film’s opening including previews is also a record, at £10.4m.

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (July 14-16) Total gross to date Week 1. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount) £6.3m £10.4m 1 2. Elemental (Disney) £2.5m £6.6m 2 3. Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (Disney) £1.8m £16.3m 3 4. Insidious: The Red Door (Sony) £1.5m £5.1m 2 5. Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse (Sony) £697,000 £28.9m 7

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has topped the UK-Ireland box office, setting franchise records for both three-day and total openings.

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Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One claimed top spot in the North American charts with a franchise-best estimated $80m five-day launch despite falling short of expectations.

The spy thriller, which dominated the global chart on an estimated $235m global bow, had been forecast to open in North American on around $90m. Nonetheless it is a strong start as Tom Cruise returns to action following last summer’s box office sensation Top Gun: Maverick.

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Tom Cruise‘s action flick “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” the seventh installment of the franchise that began way back in 1996, opened across the country and did decently, but maybe not as well as some hoped or expected. Read on for the weekend box office report.

“Mission: Impossible 7” opened early on Wednesday with previews on Tuesday, but it came into the week with absolutely fantastic reviews with 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie (his third movie in the franchise), Cruise was once again joined by Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames and Vanessa Kirby, with new players in Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales and Pom Klementieff.

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Paramount reports that “Dead Reckoning” brought in an estimated $56.2 million over the weekend, which brings its opening week to a cool $80 million in five days (including all previews). The movie...

Sunday Update: Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One lit the fuse this weekend with a $235M global start. Of that, $155M is from 70 international box office markets which rep 93% of the offshore footprint (Japan is notably still to come).

Excluding China, where there were strong headwinds from local pics and amid contracted audience interest in Hollywood movies, the overseas debut on the Tom Cruise-starrer is $129.6M. On a like-for-like basis including previews, that’s 15% ahead of Mission: Impossible Fallout which would make this the biggest opening for the franchise when removing the Prc. There, the launch was $25.4M, which is 66% below Fallout which released in what was a different time in the market.

Overall overseas, this is the biggest opening weekend in the M:i franchise in 35 markets including the UK, Australia/New Zealand, Brazil, India, Netherlands and Scandinavia.

Domestically, Dead Reckoning Part One set a...

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One topped the weekend box office chart with a five-day debut of $80 million in North America, including $56.2 million for the weekend proper.

The Paramount and Skydance pic is the latest summer tentpole to come in behind expectations. Heading into the weekend, the movie — starring Tom Cruise — had been tracking to open to $90 million or more domestically for the five days.

Dead Reckoning boasts the second best domestic opening of the franchise behind Mission: Impossible II, which posted a five-day debut of $78.5 million, not adjusted for inflation. The new Mission: Impossible installment opened Wednesday in order to give the film more runway before Barbie and Oppenheimer open July 21.

So far, older adults are fueling Dead Reckoning, with 22 percent of all ticket buyers in the 55 or older bracket. The well-reviewed movie earned an A CinemaScore from audiences.

Overseas, Dead Reckoning opened to $155 million for a global bow of $235 million.

Well… I may have gotten a little over-zealous with my predictions! I had just seen Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part One and thought it was absolutely fantastic, couple that with the fact that it has been getting great reviews (including the 9/10 from our own Chris Bumbray), nearly completely sold out showings at my local theater and a solid A cinemascore from audiences, and I thought this one was going to hit higher in its opening weekend. Right now the 3-day for Dead Reckoning Part One is coming in around $53 million, making it the fourth highest 3-day in franchise history after Fallout (61.2 million), Rogue Nation ($55.5) and M:i-2 (57.8). It still has a chance to take down the 5-day record which currently sits with M:i-2 at $78.8 million, but Saturday numbers will have to hit harder for it to achieve that.

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The horror franchise’s original cast is back in Insidious: The Red Door, playing in theaters now and directed by and starring Patrick Wilson.

In the film, “To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh (Wilson) and a college-aged Dalton (Ty Simpkins) must go deeper into The Further than ever before.”

Wilson, who also pulled triple duty singing with Ghost for end credit track “Stay”, spoke with Bloody Disgusting about the scare-crafting on the fifth Insidious entry.

The Red Door‘s jump scares play with sound, often removing the music cues signaling an impending scare altogether and shaking up the familiar pattern. When asked about his approach to crafting scares, Wilson got candid. “I wanted different types of scares and I’ll be honest, some didn’t work out as well as I wanted, usually because of time,” Wilson explains.

He continues, “That’s usually how it happens.

The horror genre — like any other — has its stock characters: the creepy child, the father-on-the-edge, the wise mystic. When done poorly, these archetypes are basically a vehicle for forgettable scream-in-the-dark fun. When done well, they’re flesh-and-blood people you worry about from film to film, hoping that someday their suffering will end — well, at least after a few movies.

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The Insidious franchise has been very economical with its storytelling, with four films that have been tethered together and set across seven decades. Each film has tried to do something new, with varying success, but Insidious: The Red Door goes back to where it started, and horror finally comes back home for the Lambert family.

A quick flashback to the events after Insidious Chapter 2 shows that Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Dalton (Ty Simpkins) have undergone hypnotherapy in order to forget the horrors that they experienced, thereby losing a year’s worth of memories. Fast forward 9 years and the Lamberts are at the funeral of Josh’s mother, Loraine and much has changed during that time: Foster and Dalton are joined by a new sister, Callie and as the boys have grown up, Josh and Renai have grown apart and divorced.

Josh has a stilted relationship with the family, especially Dalton.

Hold onto your lanterns, horror fans, because the Insidious franchise is back with its fifth installment, Insidious: The Red Door. This time, actor Patrick Wilson takes the helm as director, aiming to deliver thrills while delving into the intricate dynamics of the Lambert family. Though it falls slightly short of its predecessors, this film manages to offer a handful of effective scares and characters that may not fully come alive but still contribute to a haunting trip to the movies.

“[Insidious: The Red Door] manages to offer a handful of effective scares and characters that may not fully come alive but still contribute to a haunting trip to the movies.”

Picking up nine years after the events of Insidious: Chapter 2, we find our protagonist, Josh Lambert (played by Patrick Wilson), grappling with repressed memories of The Further, that enigmatic, blue-hued ghost realm beyond our own. But it’s not just...