Blumhouse is again in motion.
Scott Derrickson’s sequel Black Cellphone 2 delivered horror maestro Jason Blum a significant win in opening to a better-than-expected $26.5 million domestically from 3,411 theaters and $42 million globally. The pic’s debut follows a string of misses for the banner, culminating with the expensive flop of M3GAN 2.0 earlier this 12 months.
The Common and Blumhouse launch simply got here in No. 1 after scoring stable critiques and robust viewers exits, together with a B CinemaScore (that’s an ideal grade for the horror style). Additionally notable: Latinos, essentially the most frequent moviegoers, made up the biggest section of the viewers at roughly 39 %.
The sequel, costing a comparatively modest $30 million to supply, returns Ethan Hawke because the serial killer often called Grabber. Heading into the weekend, Common had the film’s debut at $18 million, however prerelease monitoring turned out to be proper in predicting that the R-rated sequel would are available in forward of the primary movie.
Black Cellphone, opening in 2021 when cinemas had been first recovering from COVID, began off with $23.6 million in North America on its solution to turning right into a sleeper hit, amassing greater than $161 million in worldwide ticket gross sales (that was earlier than horror fatigue struck on the field workplace).
Lionsgate’s Aziz Ansari-directed comedy Good Fortune additionally launched nationwide this weekend, however wasn’t so fortunate. The $30 million movie took in an estimated $6.2 million from 2,990 areas domestically to return in on the low finish of expectations regardless of its star-packed solid and a B+ CinemaScore. The solid is led by Seth Rogen, Ansari and Keke Palmer, with Sandra Oh and Keanu Reeves.
Good Fortune tells the story of a scruffy guardian angel assigned to save lots of somebody’s soul.
Extra to return.