October’s big horror movie, Black Phone 2 , has opened strong for Blumhouse, and took home #1 at the box office.

Per Deadline , the sequel to Universal’s 2022 horror hit made $42 million worldwide, with $26.5 million of it coming from North America. Both takes are slightly above the respective $23.3 million (domestic) and $35.8 million (global) of its predecessor’s start , and give Blumhouse a much-needed win after its earlier horror flicks in 2025 like M3GAN 2.0 and Wolf Man underperformed.

Directed again by Scott Derrickson and starring much of the first film’s cast—Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, and Miguel Cazarez Mora— Black Phone 2 sees Hawke’s child-abducting Grabber dead , but terrorizing the kids who defeated him via another black phone statione

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