Common/Blumhouse’s “Black Telephone 2” is the only brilliant spot on an in any other case dim field workplace weekend, incomes $10.7 million from 3,411 areas on its opening day because it heads for a strong $24.4 million launch.
That’s only a contact above the $23.6 million that the primary “Black Telephone” earned in the summertime of 2022 and greater than double the opening weekend of any Blumhouse movie launched for the reason that begin of 2024.
Because the launch of Blumhouse’s final large hit, “5 Nights at Freddy’s” two years in the past, the hallowed horror studio has not launched a movie that has grossed greater than $40 million home or $100 million worldwide, together with the shock underperforming sequel “M3GAN 2.0” this previous summer time.
“Black Telephone 2,” which was made on a reported $30 million funds, will finish that dropping streak this Halloween season. Reception for the sequel, whereas not as robust as its predecessor, nonetheless leans optimistic with a B on CinemaScore and Rotten Tomatoes scores of 74% critics and 86% viewers.
In second place — however a dismal second — is Disney’s “Tron: Ares,” which trade estimates have sinking 66% from its $33 million opening for an $11 million second weekend. The Jared Leto sci-fi movie is pacing for a 10-day home complete of simply $54.5 million. For comparability, Disney’s spring bomb “Snow White” had a 10-day complete of slightly below $67 million.
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