Annabelle: Creation takes top spot from Dunkirk at weekend box office

Zoe Samios

August 14, 2017 4:59

It its first weekend at the Australian box office, David Sandberg’s thriller, Annabelle: Creation, climbed to the top of the ladder, earning $2.287m across 231 screens.

The Warner Bros prequel to the 2014 film Annabelle, and fourth instalment of The Conjuring series, tells the story of a former toy maker and his wife, who welcome a nun and six orphaned girls to their farmhouse, before they are all terrorised by Annabelle, a possessed doll.

Annabelle: Creation managed to defeat Dunkirk, which earned $1.728m across 337 screens over the weekend.

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Zoe Samios

Zoe Samios worked at Mumbrella between 2016 and 2019, finishing up as senior media reporter in March 2019.

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Annabelle: Creation takes top spot from Dunkirk at weekend box office

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