In a very weak box office weekend with Halloween festivities stealing audiences away today, Universal/Blumhouse’s Black Phone 2 will pop back up to No. 1 in its third frame with a $7.6M take, -41% from last weekend for a running cume of $61M .

As we told you 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 on Saturday by +47% with $5M. So, goes the hope for all distributors that business on Saturday comes roaring back, but it’s not expected to be anything to brag about.

The midday charts show a toss-up for the overall weekend right now for No. 2 between Paramount’s feature take of Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You a

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