With the exception of one switcheroo, we have the same Top 10 placements from Friday after the weekend box office totals have been tallied. James Wan's The Conjuring 2 remains solidly on top with $40.4 million, nearly twice the total of the closest competitor. The bonafide horror hit is the best opening for a movie in this genre since Wan's 2013 original film, which introduced Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as the real-life-inspired Lorraine and Ed Warren. Positive reviews from critics and moviegoers alike helped boost the scary sequel into an easy first-place victory.

And while another newcomer, Duncan Jones' Warcraft, has taken an unexpected second place, its domestic totals for the weekend are closer to original estimates than the $27 million that Friday's numbers suggested was possible. Some have pointed to the fact that Warcraft earned less than the spectacular opening-weekend failure of John Carter, but Disney's bomb had a budget of almost an additional $100 million more. Plus, that film didn't have the huge benefit of China's box office, where Warcraft has now pillaged over $150 million in less than a week:


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Elsewhere, Jon M. Chu's Now You See Me 2 conjured up a third spot, making the debuts go three for three. That's more than $6 million less than the magical franchise's first installment three years ago. Other notable achievements include The Angry Birds Movie, which has flown past $300 million globally thanks to strong international ticket sales. Disney fills out the Top 10 with Alice Through the Looking GlassCaptain America: Civil War, and The Jungle Book. The latter two films are 2016's first and third-biggest films of the year, with Disney's Zootopia taking second in that category. Not a bad year for the Mouse House, who still has a lot of movies in the hopper.

Here's a look at the Top 10 from this weekend's box office (via Box Office Mojo):

Title

Weekend

Total

1.

The Conjuring 2

$40,350,000

  $40.4

2.

Warcraft

$24,356,000

  $24.4

3.

Now You See Me 2

$23,025,000

  $23.0

4.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

$14,800,000

  $61.0

5.

X-Men: Apocalypse

$10,000,000

  $136.4

6.

Me Before You

$9,210,000

  $36.8

7.

Angry Birds

$6,700,000

  $98.2

8.

Alice Through the Looking Glass

$5,544,821

  $62.4

9.

Captain America: Civil War

$4,300,195

  $396.9

10.

The Jungle Book

$2,721,250

  $352.6


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