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Black Phone 2’ Tops Quiet Halloween Weekend With $7.6 Million

With no new studio wide releases, the Halloween frame slumped to the year’s quietest turnout.

Overview

  • Universal and Blumhouse’s horror sequel is projected to lead its third weekend with about $7.6 million, off roughly 41% for a domestic total near $61 million.
  • Paramount’s Regretting You is tracking for second at about $6.6 million, while Sony/Crunchyroll’s Chainsaw Man is expected to fall roughly 70% to around $5.5 million as it passes $30 million domestic.
  • Focus Features expanded Yorgos LanthimosBugonia to 2,043 theaters, projecting about $4.4 million as the filmmaker’s biggest wide weekend, with a B CinemaScore and strong Rotten Tomatoes scores.
  • Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters returned to 2,890 locations with AMC participating, and industry estimates peg its three-day near $3.4 million, though the streamer is not reporting grosses.
  • Universal’s 40th-anniversary re-release of Back to the Future, playing some Imax shows in roughly 2,275 theaters, is on pace for about $3.8–$3.9 million for the weekend.