The suspense as to who won one of the year’s lowest-grossing weekends has ended, and it was Universal/Blumhouse’s Black Phone 2 all along coming in with $8.3 million, off 35% from the frame before, after a Sunday of $2.36M, down 33% from Saturday. The horror pic’s 17-day running total is $61.7M, just 1% behind the running cume of 2022’s Black Phone which finaled at $90.1M. Black Phone 2 is also 17% ahead of the 17-day running total of Paramount’s Smile 2 a year ago which ended its domestic run at $69M.
Paramount’s Regretting You came in at $7.8M, -43%, better than where rivals spotted it but under the No. 1 win that the Melrose Ave lot was forecasting Sunday morning. The feature take of the Colleen Hoover novel had a -25% hold on Sunday off Saturday with $2.8M, for a 10-day cume of $27.2M. That’s $6.3M behind the same period as Universal’s female-skewing fall 2022 movie Ticket to Paradise, that title finaling at $68M stateside.
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