{"id":267390,"date":"2025-11-02T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/267390\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:52:11","slug":"regretting-you-and-the-black-phone-2-almost-too-close-to-call-in-a-photo-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/267390\/","title":{"rendered":"Regretting You and The Black Phone 2 (almost) too close to call in a photo finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, it looked pretty clear<\/a> that Universal\u2019s\u00a0The Black Phone 2\u00a0was going to top the slowest weekend at the box office this month. However, in a surprising turn of events, those who weren\u2019t home last night watching the Los Angeles Dodgers squeak out a World Series win against the Toronto Blue Jays made it so the latest Colleen Hoover adaptation,\u00a0Regretting You, managed to top the box office. However, we\u2019re talking a difference of only $100k here, with\u00a0Regretting You\u00a0making $8.1 million compared to\u00a0The Black Phone 2\u2019s $8 million (only $1 million more than we predicted<\/a> earlier this week). With that tight a margin, it\u2019s possible the positions will be reversed when the final numbers are reported.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, both movies feature rising star Mason Thames, who\u2019s had a great year between these two movies and the smash\u00a0How to Train Your Dragon\u00a0remake.\u00a0Regretting You\u00a0has had a softer performance at the box office than the last Colleen Hoover adaptation,\u00a0It Ends With Us, but it also didn\u2019t have the same kind of star power (or controversy), meaning this will no doubt be a profitable movie for Paramount, with its gross sitting at $27.5 million.\u00a0The Black Phone 2\u00a0is Blumhouse\u2019s best performer in a while, with it having grossed $61 million \u2014 paving the way for an inevitable\u00a0Black Phone 3\u00a0(and maybe 4, 5, etc.).<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s anime box office topper,\u00a0Chainsaw Man: The Movie, had a huge second-week decline of 67%, making $6 million for a $30.7 million total.\u00a0Bugonia, by Yorgos Lanthimos, was another adult-skewing awards movie that had trouble attracting an audience, although its $4.8 million weekend is actually his largest expansion opening ever.\u00a0Back to the Future, which got a 40th-anniversary IMAX reissue this weekend, made $4.7 million, bringing its all-time box office total to $221 million \u2014 although adjusted for inflation, it would be over $600 million nowadays.<\/p>\n

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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere\u00a0died in its second weekend, falling a big 57% in week 2, with only $3.8 million and a grand total just over $16 million. Ouch \u2014 this one has to hurt for Searchlight, although it will no doubt find a bigger audience once it hits Hulu. To note,\u00a0K-Pop Demon Hunters\u00a0is probably on the list somewhere around this spot, with Deadline<\/a> estimating it made about $3.4 million this weekend \u2014 but Netflix doesn\u2019t report box office numbers, so there\u2019s no surefire way of knowing.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0Tron: Ares\u00a0continued its weak box office run, with $2.8 million and a $67 million domestic total. Given the rumored $200 million budget, this one is going to bleed red ink. The indie-animated movie\u00a0Stitch Head\u00a0had a modest $2.1 million opening, which isn\u2019t bad for a movie with next to no buzz. Sadly, Aziz Ansari\u2019s\u00a0Good Fortune\u00a0continued comedy\u2019s troubling run at the box office, wrapping up its run with only $1.4 million and a terrible $14.6 million domestic total, despite Keanu Reeves in a starring role.<\/p>\n

Finally, the top ten was rounded out by P.T. Anderson\u2019s\u00a0One Battle After Another, which made $1.15 million for a $67.7 million total as it moves from a wide release into the arthouses and more specialized runs (such as the Vista in L.A., where it\u2019s showing in VistaVision). Next weekend sees the release of\u00a0Predator: Badlands, which folks are banking on throwing some extra muscle into the box office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday, it looked pretty clear that Universal\u2019s\u00a0The Black Phone 2\u00a0was going to top the slowest weekend at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,45216,49434],"class_list":{"0":"post-267390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-regretting-you","11":"tag-the-black-phone-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267390","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=267390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}