{"id":220276,"date":"2025-10-17T17:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220276\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:27:11","slug":"black-phone-2-makes-2-6-million-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220276\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Phone 2 Makes $2.6 Million in Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cThe Black Phone 2<\/a>\u201d is ringing in at the box office this weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlumhouse 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. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe first \u201cBlack Phone,\u201d which introduced Ethan Hawke\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\u201d will hopefully turn Blumhouse\u2019s box office fortunes around after it suffered misfires earlier this year like \u201cWolf Man,\u201d \u201cThe Woman in the Yard,\u201d \u201cDrop\u201d and \u201cM3GAN 2.0.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sequel brings back Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw to face off against Hawke\u2019s The Grabber once again, this time from beyond the grave. In the first movie, Thames\u2019 Finney and his psychic sister survived their run-in with the kidnapping villain thanks in part to a supernatural phone that could communicate with the Grabber\u2019s ghostly victims. The sequel\u2019s cast also includes Demian Bichir, Jeremy Davies, Migues Mora, Arianna Rivas, Anna Lore and Graham Abbey.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Black Phone 2\u201d should top the box office this weekend and beat last week\u2019s winner \u201cTron: Ares\u201d and fellow newcomer \u201cGood Fortune,\u201d directed by Aziz Ansari and distributed by Lionsgate. \u201cGood Fortune,\u201d a comedy starring Ansari, Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer, made $725,000 and is expected to open with $6 million to $8 million.<\/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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[56355,49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-220276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-black-phone-2","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}