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Box-Office Weekend: Black Phone Hangs Up Tron

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

A new film stands atop the box-office weekend top ten as Black Phone 2 wrestled the number one spot from Tron: Ares by a margin of $15.4 million.

In its first weekend of release, the Universal Pictures horror sequel Black Phone 2 assumed the top spot of the box-office weekend with a debut of $26.5 million. This was more than enough to push last weekend’s top film, Tron: Ares, to second place where it took in $11.1 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, bringing its two-week total to $54.6 million. Lionsgate saw its Good Fortune claim third place with and opening weekend of $6.2 million. This pushed last weekend’s number three finisher, One Battle After Another to fourth place where it made $4.0 million, to lift its four-week total to $61.9 million. After a second-place finish last weekend, the Paramount Pictures product Roofman dropped three spots to a fifth-place finish where it added $3.7 million to bring its two-week total to $15.5 million.

The new release Truth & Treason debuted in sixth place over the weekend where it made $2.7 million for Angel studios. Falling three spots from its position last weekend, Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie took in $1.7 million for Universal Pictures International to claim seventh place. This brings the film’s four-week total to $29.9 million. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. saw its release The Conjuring: Last Rites fall two spots to land in eighth place where it made $1.57 million for the studio, bringing its seven-week total to $175.4 million. Amazon MGM Studios saw its new release After the Hunt crack the top ten and land in ninth place with $1.55 million over the weekend, bringing the film’s two-week total to $1.8 million. Finally, the Affirm Films release Soul on Fire dropped from fifth to tenth this weekend where it managed to bring in $1.3 million and raise its two-week total to $5.5 million.

Four films fell from the top ten this weekend as the films that finished in seventh- thru tenth-place seven days ago all failed to make the list this weekend. After six weeks in release, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle brought in a total of $131.2 million for Sony Pictures Releasing before dropping out of the top ten. With a three-week total of $11.1 million, A24’s The Smashing Machine also dropped out of this weekend’s top ten. Following four weeks in release, the Lionsgate offering of The Strangers: Chapter 2 has made a total of $14.6 million for the studio. Finally, over the three weeks that the IFC Films release of Good Boy was in theaters, it has brought in a total of $6.1 million.

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Weekend Box Office (October 17th – October 19th)

    1. Black Phone 2…$26.5 Million
    2. Tron: Ares…$11.1 Million
    3. Good Fortune…$6.2 Million
    4. One Battle After Another…$4.0 Million
    5. Roofman…$3.7 Million
    6. Truth & Treason…$2.7 Million
    7. Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie…$1.7 Million
    8. The Conjuring: Last Rites…$1.57 Million
    9. After the Hunt…$1.55 Million
    10. Soul on Fire…$1.3 Million

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Box-Office Weekend: Black Phone Hangs Up Tron
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Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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