{"id":2129306,"date":"2025-11-01T19:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2129306"},"modified":"2025-11-01T19:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:10:14","slug":"black-phone-2-buzzed-back-into-no-1-spot-in-theaters-on-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/black-phone-2-buzzed-back-into-no-1-spot-in-theaters-on-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Black Phone 2&#8217; buzzed back into No. 1 spot in theaters on Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F11%2F114593007.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It keeps ringing.<\/p>\n<p>The supernatural horror flick \u201cBlack Phone 2\u201d moved back to the No. 1 spot on Halloween \u2014 raking in a spook-tacular $2.39 million, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thenumbers.com\/daily-box-office-chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to The Numbers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the film, which was in first place when it debuted two weeks ago \u2014 but slipped to third last Friday \u2013Ethan Hawke reprises his role as serial killer, \u201cThe Grabber.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast Halloween, there were probably 15 people that came to our house trick-or-treating dressed as the Grabber,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/10\/14\/ethan-hawke-black-phone-2-interview\/86669960007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hawke told USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBugonia\u201d took second on its opener yesterday, with sales of $1.81 million. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>In \u201cBlack Phone 2,\u201d Ethan Hawke is back as a serial killer called \u201cThe Grabber.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Universal\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The sci-fi black comedy centers around a pair of conspiracy theorists who kidnap a CEO, played by Emma Stone, because they believe she\u2019s an alien on a mission to destroy the planet.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/09\/entertainment\/bugonia-review-emma-stone-stars-in-another-flippin-weird-yorgos-lanthimos-movie-about-conspiracy-theorists\/\">The Post called<\/a> the movie \u201ca zany, comic, icky, smelly thriller about the deadly cocktail of loneliness and web browsing,\u201d and its star, Stone, \u201cpredictably fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stone, who shaved her head for the role, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/emma-stone-reveals-why-she-hid-bugonia-bald-transformation-exclusive-11837912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told People<\/a> how she felt that day on set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a year and a half I knew that I was going to be shaving my head, and then the day of \u2026 I just started kind of panicking about that,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cBugonia\u201d centers around conspiracy theorists who kidnap a CEO, played by Emma Stone. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Focus Features\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In third was \u201cBack to the Future,\u201d which returned to theaters for its 40th anniversary, and earned $1.56 million. <\/p>\n<p>Its star, Michael J. Fox, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/back-to-the-future-40-michael-j-fox-christopher-lloyd-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Empire<\/a> why the movie still resonates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live in a bully culture right now. We have bullies everywhere. \u2026 In this movie, Biff is a bully. Time is a bully. For me personally, Parkinson\u2019s is a bully,\u201d Fox, whose memoir, \u201cFuture Boy,\u201d was released last month, told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s all about how you stand up to them and the resolve that you take into the fight with them \u2026 I think a lot of people are responding to the movie because it strikes chords they wouldn\u2019t otherwise recognize.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Michael J. Fox played the leading role of Marty McFly in the 1985 hit \u201cBack to the Future.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9MCA\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: -0.16px\">\u201cChainsaw Man \u2013 The Movie: Reze Arc<\/span>,\u201d which was in first place last Friday, its opener, fell to fourth, with $1.3 million in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>In fifth was the romantic drama \u201cRegretting You,\u201d which moved down three notches, with a $1.21 million take.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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 celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It keeps ringing. 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