Horror
flick
"Annabelle" has
topped
the
international
box
office
charts
with
a
collection
of
$200
million.
The
film,
which
opened
in
the
US
and
Canada
the
first
weekend
of
October,
has
collected
$206.2
million
worldwide.
The
grossings
outside
of
the
US
and
Canada
are
an
estimated
$126.7
million
to
date,
making
it
the
top
film
overseas,
reports
variety.com.
The
film
owes
its
win
to
Mexican
audiences,
who
gave
it
a
record
opening
for
a
horror
film
and
the
best
premiere
for
a
non-3D
movie
this
year.
It
generated
$11.7
million
in
Mexico
and
also
picked
up
a
superb
$11.5
million
in
Brazil,
where
it
has
been
showing
for
three
weeks.
The
movie
is
a
prequel
to
the
2013's
hit
Hollywood
horror
movie,
The
Conjuring.
Annabelle
is
a
horror
movie
about
a
haunted
creepy
doll.
Directed
by
John
R
Leonetti,
the
prequel
stars
Annabelle
Wallis,
Ward
Horton,
Alfre
Woodard,
Eric
Ladin
and
Brian
Howe.
In
the
movie,
a
couple
and
their
baby
survive
a
chilling
home
invasion.
They
move
away
from
that
home
to
start
afresh,
but
something
evil
follows
the
expecting
couple
and
the
horror
begins
after
her
John
Form
gifts
a
doll
to
his
expecting
wife,
Mia.