{"id":220833,"date":"2025-10-17T22:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220833\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T22:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:53:07","slug":"black-phone-2-rings-up-2-6m-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220833\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Phone 2 Rings Up $2.6M in Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIf all goes well, Scott Derrickson\u2019s sequel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/black-phone-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_black-phone-2_1\" data-tag=\"black-phone-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Phone 2<\/a> will mark a turnaround for Blumhouse after a scary string of box office misses, culminating with the pricey flop of M3GAN 2.0 earlier this year in what was a both a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/m3gan-2-0-blumhouse-bomb-1236304358\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> professional and personal blow for Jason Blum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBlack Phone 2 started off its domestic box office run with $2.6 million in Thursday previews. Universal and Blumhouse are hoping for an $18 million domestic debut; others think it easily could do north of $20 million. In 2021 \u2014 when cinemas were first recovering from COVID \u2014 the first film took in $3 million in previews on its way to opening to $23.6 million in North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe horror-thriller, starring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ethan-hawke\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Hawke<\/a> as the serial killer known as  Grabber, turned into a sleeper hit when amassing more than $161 million in worldwide ticket sales (that, however, was before horror fatigue struck at the box office). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe sequel has been embraced by many critics, including by The Hollywood Reporter\u2018s Frank Scheck. \u201cFortunately, this follow-up arriving four years later is no mere cash grab, but rather an even more stylistically and thematically ambitious effort that mostly succeeds in its aspirations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCosting a relatively inexpensive $30 million to produce, the Blumhouse and Universal release should easily top the chart and wrest the weekend crown away from Tron: Ares, which has been a disappointment so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLionsgate\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/aziz-ansari\/\" id=\"auto-tag_aziz-ansari_1\" data-tag=\"aziz-ansari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aziz Ansari<\/a>-directed comedy\u00a0Good Fortune is also launching nationwide this weekend. The $30 million film took in $725,000 in previews, and is anticipating a debut in the mid to high seven figure range, despite its star-packed cast and good reviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tStarring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/seth-rogen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_seth-rogen_1\" data-tag=\"seth-rogen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Rogen<\/a>, Ansari, Keke Palmer, with Sandra Oh, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/keanu-reeves\/\" id=\"auto-tag_keanu-reeves_1\" data-tag=\"keanu-reeves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keanu Reeves<\/a>,\u00a0Good Fortune stars Reeves a scruffy guardian angel assigned to save someone\u2019s soul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGood Fortune has likewise been generally well received by critics, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/good-fortune-review-keanu-reeves-aziz-ansari-seth-rogen-1236363375\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR\u2018s review<\/a> noting that \u201cthanks to the engaging ensemble and the breezily improvised feel to many of its funnier line readings,\u00a0Good Fortune\u00a0coasts along agreeably on all those good intentions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If all goes well, Scott Derrickson\u2019s sequel Black Phone 2 will mark a turnaround for Blumhouse after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15892,56355,49,48,75,24905,15894,4426],"class_list":["post-220833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aziz-ansari","tag-black-phone-2","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-ethan-hawke","tag-keanu-reeves","tag-seth-rogen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220833","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=220833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}