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 for The Red Door was just $16 million, allowing the fifth franchise installment to achieve profitability in just a matter of days.
The decision to pivot backwards and refocus on the Lambert family seems to have been a smart one, with audiences flocking to the theater to finally see a direct continuation of the first two Insidious movies. You can consider The Red Door a “legacy sequel” of sorts, and yes, we’re also feeling pretty old to realize that Insidious Nostalgia has already become a thing.
13 years since the franchise launched… where does the time go?! The more important question? What’s next for the Insidious franchise? A spinoff has already been announced. It’s titled Thread: An Insidious Tale, with Mandy Moore and Kumail Nanjiani starring!
Deadline reports, “The story here is that of a husband and wife (Nanjiani and Moore) who enlist the help of a spell to travel back in time, such that they can prevent the death of their young daughter. The consequences, of course, prove to be severe.”
The franchise’s first spinoff film comes courtesy of Screen Gems, Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster, and Jeremy Slater (“The Exorcist,” “Moon Knight”) is directing.
Slater also wrote the screenplay for Thread: An Insidious Tale.
