{"id":243846,"date":"2025-10-22T15:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/243846\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:39:07","slug":"will-springsteen-chainsaw-man-dethrone-black-phone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/243846\/","title":{"rendered":"Will ‘Springsteen,’ ‘Chainsaw Man’ Dethrone ‘Black Phone 2’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA smattering of new releases will aim to dethrone \u201cBlack Phone 2<\/a>\u201d at the domestic box office.<\/p>\n

\n\tThree films \u2014 Disney and 20th Century Studios\u2019 musical biopic \u201cSpringsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere<\/a>,\u201d Paramount\u2019s romantic drama \u201cRegretting You<\/a>\u201d and Sony\u2019s R-rated anime title \u201cChainsaw Man<\/a>\u201d \u2014 are tracking debuts in the $10 million range. Meanwhile last weekend\u2019s champ, Universal and Blumhouse\u2019s scary sequel \u201cBlack Phone 2,\u201d is similarly targeting a $10 million to $12 million haul in its second outing. So far, \u201cBlack Phone\u201d has earned $27.3 million domestically and $42.8 million globally. Barring the arrival of a sleeper hit, it\u2019s shaping up to be yet another dreary October weekend after the Warner Bros. sequel \u201cMortal Kombat II\u201d was moved from Oct. 24 to May 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChainsaw Man\u201d could lead the pack with $11 million to $15 million, and box office watchers believe it has the best chance among newcomers of breaking through over the weekend. That\u2019s because anime has been enjoying a theatrical hot streak<\/a> with Sony\u2019s own \u201cDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle\u201d debuting to a remarkable $70 million in September. Adapted from a popular TV series, \u201cDemon Slayer\u201d then became the highest-grossing anime film ever\u00a0with $131 million domestically and $659 million worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDeliver Me From Nowhere,\u201d starring \u201cThe Bear\u201d actor Jeremy Allen White as the Boss, is projecting a start between $8 million to $12 million from 3,400 North American theaters. The film is expected to collect another $8 million to $10 million in its international debut for a worldwide tally around $16 million to $22 million. Directed by Scott Cooper, the $55 million-budgeted musical drama centers on a less commercial chapter in Springsteen\u2019s robust career, chronicling the writing of his 1982 album \u201cNebraska.\u201d If estimates hold, initial ticket sales for \u201cSpringsteen\u201d would be comparable to another recent musical biopic, Searchlight\u2019s \u201cA Complete Unknown,\u201d featuring Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan. That film opened last December with $11.6 million over the three days and enjoyed staying power, eventually earning $75 million domestically and $140 million globally.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRegretting You\u201d looks to earn $8 million to $10 million from 3,300 venues. Based on the 2019 novel by Colleen Hoover, the PG-13 story follows a mother and daughter (Allison Williams and Mckenna Grace) who grapple with the aftermath of a devastating accident. The movie was produced by Constantin Films and carries a $30 million budget. \u201cRegretting You\u201d is Hoover\u2019s second novel to get the big-screen treatment. Her first was \u201cIt Ends With Us,\u201d starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni (who also directed), which ignited to $50 million and became a breakout hit with $344 million worldwide against a $25 million budget. (In addition to becoming hugely profitable for all parties, \u201cIt Ends With Us\u201d has also been plagued<\/a> by a series of never-ending lawsuits<\/a> between Lively and Baldoni, who remain embroiled in a legal battle about allegations of a hostile work environment and a subsequent smear campaign.) Hoover\u2019s books \u201cVerity\u201d and \u201cReminders of Him\u201d are being adapted by other studios.<\/p>\n

\n\tOverall domestic revenues are just 4% ahead of 2024 and more than 20% behind pre-pandemic times, according to Comscore. Moviegoing should get a boost next weekend when Netflix re-releases \u201cKpop Demon Hunters\u201d for Halloween-themed sing-along screenings. But attendance won\u2019t be consistent until later in the fall when Disney\u2019s extraterrestrial adventure \u201cPredator: Badlands,\u201d Lionsgate\u2019s heist threequel \u201cNow You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t,\u201d Universal\u2019s musical adaptation \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d and Disney\u2019s animated sequel \u201cZootopia 2\u201d make their way to theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A smattering of new releases will aim to dethrone \u201cBlack Phone 2\u201d at the domestic box office. Three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[71916,133773,88,206,45216,77182],"class_list":{"0":"post-243846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-black-phone-2","9":"tag-chainsaw-man","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-regretting-you","13":"tag-springsteen-deliver-me-from-nowhere"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}