{"id":2110857,"date":"2025-10-23T17:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2110857"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:14:20","slug":"can-horror-hit-black-phone-2-hold-off-anime-chainsaw-man-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/can-horror-hit-black-phone-2-hold-off-anime-chainsaw-man-at-the-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Horror Hit \u2018Black Phone 2\u2019 Hold Off Anime \u2018Chainsaw Man\u2019 at the Box Office?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">October\u2019s box office slowdown is expected to continue this weekend, but amidst a medley of new releases aimed at specific audiences, it is looking like a matchup of horror vs. anime for the No. 1 spot.<\/p>\n<p>After grossing $3 million on Tuesday, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0154201\/\">Universal<\/a>\/Blumhouse\u2019s \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 has a total of $32.4 million after five days and is expected to earn $12-15 million in its second weekend. On the low end of that projection, it is roughly a 55% drop from the film\u2019s $27.4 million opening weekend and still higher than the opening weekend of any Blumhouse film released since the start of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Buoyed by solid word-of-mouth and its proximity to Halloween,&#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>October\u2019s box office slowdown is expected to continue this weekend, but amidst a medley of new releases aimed at specific audiences, it is looking like a matchup of horror vs. anime for the No. 1 spot. After grossing $3 million on Tuesday, Universal\/Blumhouse\u2019s \u201cBlack Phone 2\u201d has a total of $32.4 million after five days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2110858,"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-2110857","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\/Can-Horror-Hit-\u2018Black-Phone-2-Hold-Off-Anime-\u2018Chainsaw.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110857","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=2110857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110859,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110857\/revisions\/2110859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2110858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}