Field Workplace: ‘A Haunting in Venice’ Racing ‘Nun 2’ in Opening Weekend

Hercule Poirot is again on the case this weekend, with Kenneth Branagh’s “A Haunting in Venice” hoping to finest a really quiet field workplace in its opening. The horror-tinged whodunit scored $5.5 million from 3,305 theaters on its opening day, a determine that features $1.2 million in Thursday previews. The movie will get a lift from elevated ticket costs for premium giant codecs like Imax.

“Haunting” is pacing a bit forward of final 12 months’s “Dying on the Nile,” which opened to $12.8 million on Tremendous Bowl weekend after some extended shuffles round Disney…