Talent agency topper and
long-time film producer Peter Safran has managed, with the help of
director/producer James Wan (Saw series of films, Insidious
series, The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, etc.) to launch and maintain in
the past five years a full-blown film franchise series that shows no signs of
slowing down.
It is dubbed “The
Conjuring Universe” and began in 2013 with The Conjuring and a domestic box
office haul of $137.4 million. This was
followed by Annabelle ($84.3 million) during the Halloween season of 2014, The
Conjuring 2 ($102.5 million) in the early summer of 2016, Annabelle:
Creation ($102.1 million) the following summer and this year, director
Colin Hardy’s The Nun.
Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment announced this past week that The Nun would be making
its way home as two SKU product offering — DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack — on
Dec. 4. That street date yields an ARR
of 88 days and domestic ticket sales in the post-Labor Day period registered a
tasty $116.7 million.
A film franchise indeed,
with the next Annabelle film lined up for next summer and the next edition of
the The
Conjuring ready the following year.
Money, money, money!
In post-war Romania,
about 20 or so years prior to the events that unfold in The Conjuring, we two
Catholic nuns are attacked by a mysterious entity that takes the form of a
ghostly nun. Real creepy stuff — and
very effective — to open the proceedings.
The Vatican learns of the
assault at the remote monastery and dispatches Father Burke (Demián Bichir — Alien:
Covenant, The Hateful Eight, etc.) along with a young nun, Sister Irene
(Taissa Farmiga — The Bling Ring, Anna, 6 Years) to investigate. We will learn as the chill-filled story
progresses that a significant artifact was safely hidden there, but perhaps the
ravages of the World War II might have changed that.
In any case, The
Nun is a terrific haunted house — in the form of a sprawling medieval
castle — that delivers exactly what in promises. Chills, atmosphere and spooky thrills!
As to bonus goodies, we
have nearly ten minutes worth of deleted scenes (reports in the media pointed
to some production re-shoots … perhaps this is some of that footage) and a trio
of featurettes — “A New Horror Icon,” “Gruesome Planet” and “The Conjuring
Chronology.”
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