The estimated three-day opening take for “Annabelle,” the fourth installment in the popular “Conjuring” franchise, was considered healthy for a supernatural horror flic. The film stars Stephanie Sigman, Talitha Bateman, Miranda Otto, Lulu Wilson and Anthony LaPaglia.

While this has been a weak summer overall for film, it was a good weekend for Warner Bros., which saw another of its productions, war movie “Dunkirk,” hold steady at second in the box-office race, with ticket sales of $11.4 million, industry site Exhibitor Relations reported.
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That movie, starring One Direction singer Harry Styles, depicts the heroic 1940 evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops from northern France. The film has a global take of $363.6 million so far, and has yet to be released in China, Japan or Italy, according to boxofficemojo.com.

In third spot is the Open Road film “Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature,” at $8.9 million, less than half the opening weekend take of the first “Nut Job” movie. The animated adventure tells the story of a group of animals trying to save their home from the bulldozer.

Sony’s “The Dark Tower” placed fourth, at $7.9 million, slipping from the No. 1 spot a week earlier. The sci-fi production, based on best-selling novels by horror/fantasy master Stephen King and starring Tom Taylor and Idris Elba, tells about a boy trying to save the world from enemies including bad guy Matthew McConaughey.

In fifth place, also from Sony, was “The Emoji Movie,” with $6.6 million in ticket sales. The computer-animated comedy, based on the expressive little symbols on cell phones, has an all-star voicing cast including James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Christina Aguilera and Sofia Vergara.

Rounding out the top 10 were:

“Girls Trip” ($6.5 million)

“Spider-Man: Homecoming” ($6.1 million)

“Kidnap” ($5.2 million)

“The Glass Castle” ($4.9 million)

“Atomic Blonde” ($4.6 million)