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Blumhouse and Universal<\/a>\u2019s terrifying sequel has made $2.625 million in Thursday previews. It\u2019s estimated to open with $23 million to $29 million, though some projections are coming in more conservatively at $18 million.<\/p>\n The first \u201cBlack Phone<\/a>,\u201d which introduced Ethan Hawke<\/a>\u2019s creepy kidnapper The Grabber, opened to $21 million back in 2021 when theaters were just starting to reopen after the Covid-19 pandemic. It went on to make $161 million globally, becoming a surprise hit. With a $30 million budget, \u201cThe Black Phone 2<\/a>\u201d will hopefully turn Blumhouse\u2019s box office fortunes around after it suffered misfires earlier this year like \u201cWolf Man<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Woman in the Yard<\/a>,\u201d \u201cDrop<\/a>\u201d and \u201cM3GAN 2.0<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The sequel brings back Mason Thames<\/a> and Madeleine McGraw<\/a> to face off against Hawke<\/a>\u2019s The Grabber once again, this time from beyond the grave. In the first movie, Thames…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe Black Phone 2\u201d is ringing in at the box office this weekend. Blumhouse and Universal\u2019s terrifying sequel has made $2.625 million in Thursday previews. It\u2019s estimated to open with $23 million to $29 million, though some projections are coming in more conservatively at $18 million. The first \u201cBlack Phone,\u201d which introduced Ethan Hawke\u2019s creepy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2097930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2097929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Box-Office-\u2018The-Black-Phone-2-Makes-26-Million-in.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097931,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097929\/revisions\/2097931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2097930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}