Irish filmmaker Lee Cronin had the number two film at the Irish, US and UK box office this weekend with his movie Evil Dead Rise after it sold €1.7m worth of tickets.
The film has also opened at number 2 at the US box office, grossing approximately $23million over the weekend, and is the number two film at the global box office, with an estimated $40million gross
The film is latest instalment in the horror franchise.
Written and directed by Cronin (The Hole in the Ground) Evil Dead Rise stars Lily Sullivan (I Met a Girl, Barkskins), Alyssa Sutherland (The Mist, Vikings), Morgan Davies (Strom Boy, The End), Gabrielle Echols (Reminiscence) and newcomer Nell Fisher (Northspur) and tells the story of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons.
Speaking to RTÉ Entertainment, the director said, "Knowing that I was making an Evil Dead movie, I knew that I needed to push the envelope from the start.
"How far I could push it, you only really discover as you continue the process of writing and developing."
"Whenever I'd come up with some of the madcap ideas that are in the movie, I'd always see how far I could push those, how far I could take them. And in a weird way, there's no such thing as too far in a movie like this!"
