UPDATE SUNDAY AM: Refresh for more analysis and chart…. Paramount is calling the second weekend of their feature take of Colleen Hoover novel Regretting You at an $8.1M No. 1 win over Universal/Blumhouse’s Black Phone 2 which is being called at $8M . This death match between a movie about a mother and daughter in mourning, and that of a devil-faced kidnapper will come down to Sunday. Paramount is betting that young women bounce back today like they did post World Series Baseball last weekend. More on this in a bit, because I think there’s some distribution execs pounding their desks with their fists this morning.

Note that rivals see Black Phone 2 winning the weekend over Regretting You, $8M to $7.2M. It’s expected that the Ethan Hawke Blumhouse movie will post a $2

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