‘Black Phone 2’ Dominates with $10.7 Million Opening Day

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Blumhouse’s horror sequel Black Phone 2 earned $10.7 million across Friday and preview screenings, heading for a No. 1 opening.

Aziz Ansari’s comedy Good Fortune should be a third place debut, as a sleepy October box office trudges.

Universal has “Black Phone 2” in 3,411 North American locations for opening weekend, projecting a three-day total of $24.4 million.

That’d be within pre-weekend tracking estimates and ahead of the original “Black Phone,” which debuted to $23.6 million in 2022.

The sequel, which sees Ethan Hawke return as a serial killer known as the Grabber, also gets a grosses boost from some premium large format auditoriums — which carry higher ticket prices.

Blumhouse enjoys box office bounce-back to end the year after a disappointing 2025 slate of “Wolf Man,” “The Woman in the Yard,” “Drop” and “M3GAN 2.0” — each of which carried modest price tag, but ultimately failed to break out in theaters.

The R-rated “Black Phone 2” will be the Blumhouse’s biggest opening of the calendar, but Scott Derrickson sequel is a costly production at $30 million production budget.

But Black Phone 2 will have to show staying power to end up a theatrical success. Critics and audiences are both positive, though slightly chillier than returns for the first entry.

Audience survey firm Cinema Score polled a “B” grade among ticketbuyers, a tick down from the “B+” grade for the 2022 original.

The first Black Phone was a sleeper hit, with nearly 4x multiplier on its debut to finish with $90 million domestic.

“Black Phone 2” will aim for a similarly long tail, positioned as the premier horror release through the Halloween season.

Blumhouse still has one more sequel, “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2,” coming in December from Universal.