Blumhouse is back in action.

Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2 delivered horror maestro Jason Blum a major win in opening to a terrifyingly great $27.3 million from 3,411 theaters domestically and $15.5 million from 72 markets overseas for a global start of $42.8 million against a relatively modest $30 million production budget, according to final weekend numbers. The pic’s debut follows a string of misses for the Universal-based banner, culminating with the pricey flop of M3GAN 2.0 earlier this year.

And with Sunday traffic coming in ahead of modeling, Black Phone 2 ‘s official opening tally was even higher than an estimated $26.5 million domestically, which was already better-than-expected and ahead of the first film.

Blumhouse is back in action.

Scott Derrickson’s Bl

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