Box Office Report for the Week of October 19

Blumhouse finally has a successful movie on their hands this year with Black Phone 2! This unconventional sequel, which rejects everything the first film laid out and turns Ethan Hawke‘s The Grabber into a Nightmare on Elm Street figure, doubling the first movie’s $18 million opening with a $26.5 million tally, and a global cume of $42 million.

Meanwhile, Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune did not have the debut it wanted, crashing and burning with a meager $6.2 domestic tally, with a hefty price tag of $30 million. It couldn’t beat Tron: Ares, which is also struggling to be commercially successful, dropping at 66% and making $11.1 million, despite keeping most of the premium large format and IMAX screens over the country (some are, however, screening Guillermo del Toro‘s Frankenstein, but in very limited venues).

Luca Guadagnino‘s After the Hunt also opened wide this weekend. While its tally has improved significantly compared to last week, the commercial results of the movie are a far cry from Challengers, which was a massive critical and commercial win for Amazon MGM Studios. In the case of After the Hunt, the movie received lukewarm reviews out of Venice, which only soured as more critics saw it. As a result, the film opened in ninth spot with a $1.55 million domestic tally.

It is also important to note that, while this article only gives the top ten films of the weekend, both Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle and Soul on Fire (two films from Sony) tied in tenth spot with a respective $1.3 million tally. The eleventh-positioned movie is Pets on a Train, which made $814,726 in its opening weekend.

Here is the full list of the top ten films of the weekend:

1. Black Phone 2 (Universal): $26.5M – 3,411 theatres
2. Tron: Ares (Disney): $11.1M (-66%) – 4,000 theatres
3. Good Fortune (Lionsgate): $6.2M – 2,990 theatres
4. One Battle After Another (Warner Bros): $4.0M (-41%) – 2,532 theatres
5. Roofman (Paramount): $3.7M (-54%) – 3,370 theatres
6. Truth & Treason (Angel Studios): $2.7M – 2,106 theatres
7. Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie (Universal): $1.6M (-52%) – 2,535 theatres
8. The Conjuring: Last Rites (Warner Bros.): $1.57M (-50%) – 1,981 theatres
9. After the Hunt (Amazon MGM Studios): $1.55M (+881%) – 1,238 theatres
10. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle (Sony): $1.3M (-43%) – 1,284 theatres

Source: Comscore