{"id":2100187,"date":"2025-10-18T15:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2100187"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:36:16","slug":"box-office-black-phone-2-grabs-10-7-million-opening-day-good-fortune-fizzling-in-third-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/box-office-black-phone-2-grabs-10-7-million-opening-day-good-fortune-fizzling-in-third-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: \u2018Black Phone 2\u2019 Grabs $10.7 Million Opening Day, \u2018Good Fortune\u2019 Fizzling in Third Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Blumhouse\u2019s horror sequel \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt29644189\/\">Black Phone 2<\/a>\u201d dialed into $10.7 million across Friday and preview screenings, heading for a No. 1 opening. Meanwhile, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2106637\/\">Aziz Ansari<\/a>\u2019s comedy \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27543578\/\">Good Fortune<\/a>\u201d isn\u2019t seeing much luck in a third place debut, as a sleepy October box office trudges towards the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0784875\/\">Universal<\/a> has \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt29644189\/\">Black Phone 2<\/a>\u201d in 3,411 North American locations for opening weekend, projecting a three-day total of $24.4 million. That\u2019d be within pre-weekend tracking estimates and a hair ahead of the original \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7144666\/\">Black Phone<\/a>,\u201d which debuted to $23.6 million in 2022. The sequel, which sees <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000160\/\">Ethan Hawke<\/a> return as a serial killer known as the Grabber, also gets a grosses boost from nabbing some premium large format auditoriums \u2014 which carry higher ticket prices \u2014 from \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6604188\/\">Tron: Ares<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blumhouse is looking for a box office bounce-back to end the year after fielding a disappointing 2025 slate of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4216984\/\">Wolf Man<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31314296\/\">The Woman in the Yard<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32149847\/\">Drop<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blumhouse\u2019s horror sequel \u201cBlack Phone 2\u201d dialed into $10.7 million across Friday and preview screenings, heading for a No. 1 opening. Meanwhile, Aziz Ansari\u2019s comedy \u201cGood Fortune\u201d isn\u2019t seeing much luck in a third place debut, as a sleepy October box office trudges towards the end of the month. Universal has \u201cBlack Phone 2\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2100188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":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-2100187","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-\u2018Black-Phone-2-Grabs-107-Million-Opening-Day.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100187","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=2100187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100189,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100187\/revisions\/2100189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2100188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}