{"id":266807,"date":"2025-11-02T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/266807\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:45:11","slug":"box-office-kpop-demon-hunters-returns-black-phone-2-leads-again-as-theaters-go-dead-silent-over-halloween-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/266807\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: \u2018KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 Returns, \u2018Black Phone 2\u2019 Leads Again as Theaters Go Dead Silent Over Halloween Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

None of the major studios elected to debut a film in wide release this Halloween weekend, ending what was already a quiet October box office on a down note. No feature is expected to even sniff a gross in the eight-digits, which hasn\u2019t happened since the debut of \u201cNovocaine<\/a>\u201d back in March. Among the newcomers, Netflix<\/a> has a second theatrical engagement of \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/a>\u201d \u2014 this time with AMC Theatres<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest exhibitor chain, on board \u2014 while Focus Features<\/a> is expanding its acclaimed conspiracy thriller \u201cBugonia<\/a>\u201d after a limited bow.<\/p>\n

But first place looks to go to the third outing of Universal<\/a> and Blumhouse\u2019s horror film du jour \u201cBlack Phone 2<\/a>,\u201d which earned $2.3 million on Friday and is projecting a third weekend gross of $7.6 million, down just 41% for the seasonally appropriate holiday weekend. The North American total is forecast for $61 million through Sunday, pacing a touch…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"None of the major studios elected to debut a film in wide release this Halloween weekend, ending what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[1508,1509,236,1510,88,954,1506,206,3,1507,1505,92],"class_list":["post-266807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266807","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=266807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}