two $30million or more debuts; the first was in 2008: High School Musical 3 ($42million) and Saw V ($31million). To Rentrak, the opening weekend crowd was evenly split between females with 51% and under 25 years with 54%. The film's theatrical run ended on December 18, 2014, and it earned a total of $84million, becoming the thirty-fifth highest-grossing movie of 2014 in the US. The film was released in Russia on September 26, 2014, a week prior to its wide release and earned $2.1million on its opening weekend, debuting at No. 3 at the Russian box office. Overseas, in its opening weekend the film earned $23.6million from nearly 3,300 screen and 39 foreign markets for a first-weekend worldwide total of $60.8million. High openings of Annabelle internationally were reported in France ($3.4million), Brazil ($3million), the UK ($3.1million), Argentina ($1.2million), Spain ($1.45million) and Germany ($1.14million). In India Annabelle debuted at #2 behind Bollywood blockbuster Bang Bang! and collected $1.3million. It set an all-time opening record for a horror film in Peru with $1.34million which is also Warner Bros. second biggest opening weekend of all time there overall. In Mexico, the film earned $10.9million (including previews) on its opening weekend and broke the record for the biggest debut ever for a horror movie, and the best 2D opening. Its opening weekend gross is also the third-biggest opening overall of 2014 behind Maleficent and Transformers: Age of Extinction there. In total, the film took 59% of the total market share. As of October 13, 2014, Annabelle has become the highest-grossing horror film in the Philippines, earning over ₱121.33million. The film surpassed Insidious: Chapter 2s record (₱113million), doing so after 12 days of release. The film has also become the highest-grossing horror movie in Lebanon after staying atop the box office for two weekends. Critical response Annabelle received generally negative reviews from critics, many of whom felt the film inferior to its predecessor. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 28% based on 137 reviews, with an average rating of 4.50/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Annabelle borrows unabashedly from better horror films, content to leave viewers with a string of cheap jolts that fail to build on the far more effective The Conjuring." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 37 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave