{"id":157371,"date":"2025-11-01T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/157371\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:23:10","slug":"black-phone-2-leads-weak-frame-kpop-no-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/157371\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Black Phone 2’ Leads Weak Frame, ‘KPop’ No Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUPDATE SATURDAY AM:<\/strong> Refresh for more analysis and chart<\/strong>\u2026The lowest October in 27 years is coming to a close with the lowest weekend of the year at around $49M no thanks to Halloween falling on a Friday, but the horror doesn\u2019t stop there: Anyone expected a boost for business on Saturday has to deal with the final World Series game between LA Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays. <\/p>\n

\n\tComscore reported earlier this week that October was coming in at $440M which is the lowest October has ever been since 1998 which did $455.5M. The biggest October ever belongs to 2018 which did $832.8M \u2014 there were three tentpoles that month with Venom, A Star Is Born and Halloween which combined did some $481M for the month alone. Last October brought in $478M, this past month being -8% off from that. The biggest October post pandemic belongs to 2021, when moviegoers were coming back from Covid, and the month was stacked with Dune, No Time to Die, and Venom 2, that frame amounting to $645M. After surprises such as Conjuring Last Rites and Demon Slayer Infinity Castle in September, October dragged the fall box office behind per Comscore with $1 billion<\/strong> for the post Labor Day through Oct. 30 period, -2.2% behind the same period a year ago. On the plus side, the 2025 box office for Jan. 1-Oct. 30 is clocking $7 billion, +3% from a year ago, but still -24% from pre-Covid 2019 which grossed $9.26 billion by this point in time. <\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal\/Blumhouse\u2019s the third weekend of Black Phone 2<\/a><\/strong> is leading with $7.6M<\/strong> still, -41%, for a running cume of $61M<\/strong>. The scary movie led all titles on Halloween with $2.4M <\/strong>while Focus Features\u2019 Bugonia<\/a> was second with $1.8M<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'KPop<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018KPop Demon Hunters<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNetflix<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile per industry estimates, because Netflix doesn\u2019t report, Kpop Demon Hunters<\/strong> at 2,890 theaters grossed $600K<\/strong> yesterday for what\u2019s shaping up to be a $3.4M<\/strong> second three-day weekend. As one distribution source predicted about the most watched Netflix title coming back to cinemas: \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s more juice left in that squeeze.\u201d <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Bugonia'<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tEmma Stone in \u2018Bugonia\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAtsushi Nishijima\/Focus Features<\/p>\n

\n\tBugonia, which cost a lot for a Yorgos Lanthimos movie at $45M, with a higher price for what Focus acquired it for, is coming in with the biggest opening for the offbeat filmmaker at $4.4M<\/strong> in its wide break from 17 to 2,043 theaters. The movie gets a B CinemaScore, an 80% positive and a 53% definite recommend in Screen Engine\/Comscore PostTrak audience exits. Clearly the question raised will be, well, if took out Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, shouldn\u2019t we take out Bugonia? They cost a similar amount, with Springsteen opening at $8.8M, and had similar exits (Springsteen was B+). Two different movies: One is aimed at a hipster crowd, the other at older men who didn\u2019t show up. If Bugonia can get to a $30M gross and $100M-plus global take, consider it a gross right in Lanthimos\u2019 wheelhouse: his Oscar winners The Favourite did $34.3M domestic, $95.9M global and Poor Things wound up with $34.5M domestic\/$117.6M worldwide. Focus is playing the Conclave date of the calendar rather than taking Bugonia out over Thanksgiving or Christmas which is where Searchlight played his previous two awards contenders. Note, Bugonia\u2018s weekend alone amounts close to the entire domestic run of his previous Searchlight dud, Kinds of Kindness which only grossed $5M domestic, and $16.4M global in June 2024. <\/p>\n

\n\tBugonia played best in the East and the West with 51% of its tickets sales from both coasts versus the 43% norm for all other titles in the marketplace. Male leaning at 61%. Sixty-three 18-34 (a demo which the specialty distributors should make more movies for). Diversity demos were 53% Caucasian, 24% Latino and Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian American and 6% Native American. The Alamo DC 9 is the top grossing location for the Emma Stone-Jesse Plemmons pic with around $8K. <\/p>\n

\n\tBriarcliff Entertainment has the animated kids spooky pic Stitch Head<\/strong> which did $350K for what\u2019s looking like a $2.2M<\/strong> opening. Best areas of play yesterday were South, Midwest and South Central, with standout markets being Chicago, Houston, and Atlanta. The Cinema 10 in Huntsville TX posted the best gross with $1K. Twenty-six reviews from critics amounted to a paltry 69% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. <\/p>\n

\n\tRoadside Attractions has the political thriller Anniversary<\/strong> starring Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Dylan O\u2019Brien, Phoebe Dynevor and Zoey Deutch about a\u00a0very close-knit family that is torn apart as a new movement \u201cThe Change\u201d envelops the country. Directed and co-written by Jan Komasa, the pic counts 67% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes from 43 reviews, a $72K<\/strong> Friday and forecasted $247K <\/strong>3-day from 809 theaters or a $305 per theater. <\/p>\n

\n\tMore\u2026<\/p>\n

\n\tPREVIOUS FRIDAY MIDDAY: <\/strong>In a weak box office weekend with Halloween<\/a> festivities stealing audiences away today, Universal\/Blumhouse\u2019s Black Phone 2 <\/strong>will pop back up to No. 1 in its third frame with a $7.6<\/strong> million <\/strong>take, down 41% from last weekend for a running cume of $61M<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs we told you earlier, the last time Halloween fell on a Friday was 2014, and a Universal\/Blumhouse horror movie ruled then: the second weekend of Ouija, with $10.7M. That title led Halloween Friday with a $3.4M take and then popped by 47% on Saturday with $5M. So goes the hope for all distributors that business comes roaring back on Saturday, but it\u2019s not expected to be anything to brag about.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe midday charts right now show a toss-up for the overall weekend for No. 2 between Paramount\u2019s feature take on Colleen Hoover\u2019s Regretting You<\/strong> and Sony\/Crunchyroll\u2019s Chainsaw Man, <\/strong>both estimated around $4.8M<\/strong>. For Chainsaw Man, that\u2019s a 73% decline for a running cume of $29.5M<\/strong>. For Regretting You, that reps a 65% decline from its $13.68M opening for a running cume of $24.1M<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: <\/strong>Ultimate Final Girls In Horror: From Laurie Strode To Sidney Prescott & Dorothy Gale<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, Netflix\u2019s second go-round of KPop Demon Hunters<\/strong> could upset them both with a $5M+<\/strong> take, that number not made official in midday forecasts. While the movie posted a two-day $19M No. 1 finish back in August in a wide release sans No. 1 chain AMC Theatres, this time around the Kansas-based circuit will be playing the Sony anime production along with Regal and Cinemark.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Bugonia,'<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t(Clockwise from left) \u2018Bugonia,\u2019 \u2018Back to the Future<\/a>\u2018 and \u2018The Twilight Saga \u2013 New Moon\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEverett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tBugonia<\/strong>, Focus Features\u2019 wide break of Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 fifth collaboration with Emma Stone, is eyeing a $4M<\/strong> second weekend after jumping from 17 theaters in NY\/LA\/Austin last weekend to 2,043. That\u2019s the biggest wide weekend ever for the Oscar-winning Greek filmmaker, his previous high being the eighth weekend of Poor Things, which cleared $2.9M in 2023. The new pic\u2019s second Friday of $1.7M includes $700,000 in previews from 1,700 theaters.<\/p>\n

\n\tNote that preview figure is ahead of Conclave\u2018s Thursday previews of $500K a year ago, which posted a $6.6M opening at 1,753 theaters, And it\u2019s not far from Wes Anderson\u2019s The Phoenician Scheme, whose wide-break Thursday previews did $850K during the summer; that wide weekend \u2014 its second frame \u2014 posted $6.27M at 1,678. There is hope for the long haul on Bugonia based on its 87% with critics and 89% with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. Lanthimos\u2019 Oscar-winning Poor Things was 92% certified fresh with critics and 80% with audiences, while his other Academy Award-winning The Favourite was 93% certified fresh and 71% with audiences in 2018.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: <\/strong>10 Terrifyingly Good Horror Triple Bills To Watch This Halloween<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal\u2019s re-release of Robert Zemeckis\u2019 Back to the Future<\/strong> at 2,290, with the boost of Imax, is looking at a Friday of $1.55M<\/strong>, which includes $650K previews from last night in what\u2019s shaping up to be a $3.8M<\/strong> three-day total. This is the 40th anniversary reissue of the blockbuster starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. By comparison, Uni\u2019s re-release of Jaws for its 50th anniversary<\/a> posted a three-day of $8.2M over Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney is hoping for a $4M+<\/strong> second weekend on Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere<\/strong>, but rivals see the Jeremy Allen White-led pic lower. At that level, it\u2019s a 55% decline with a $16.4M<\/strong> running cume by EOD Sunday.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter making $1.55M with the reissue of 2008\u2019s Twilight, Fathom Entertainment\u2019s re-release of that pic\u2019s 2009 sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon did $590K <\/strong>at 1,504 theaters Thursday night. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse\u00a0plays today, followed by\u00a0Breaking Dawn Part 1\u00a0on Saturday and\u00a0Breaking Dawn Part 2\u00a0on Sunday.\u00a0The re-release<\/a> of the Summit\/Lionsgate franchise\u00a0is in celebration of the novel\u2019s 20th anniversary.<\/p>\n

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