Black Phone 2 rings up $ million globally during its opening for Blumhouse.

      It has been a challenging year for Blumhouse at the box office, but the Grabber has turned things around with an impressive opening of $26.5 million for Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2. We described Black Phone 2 as “another brutal treat, featuring a memorable chilling and gory confrontation on ice” in our ★★★ review (which you can read here), and audiences seem to agree, as the horror sequel surpassed the original’s opening by nearly $3 million, accumulating a total of $42 million globally against a budget of only $30 million.

      This gross brings an end to a disastrous streak of returns for Jason Blum’s Universal-based production company, which included the January flop Wolf Man ($35 million) and culminated in one of the year’s biggest letdowns, M3GAN 2.0 ($39 million).

      Other news wasn’t as positive for a different new release about resurrected individuals, Aziz Anzari’s debut feature Good Fortune, which stars Seth Rogen, Keke Palmer, Sandra Oh, and Keanu Reeves as a returning angel, managing only $6.2 million at the domestic box office.

      That total wasn't enough to surpass Disney’s unwanted sequel, Tron: Ares, which experienced a digital setback, falling to just $11.1 million in its second weekend. The $180 million budgeted sequel has so far earned only $103 million worldwide.

      You can find the complete details over at Box Office Mojo, and as always, feel free to share what you watched at the multiplex this weekend by visiting our social media channels @FlickeringMyth…