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.
Weekend Box Office
(October 17th – October 19th)
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- Black Phone 2…$26.5 Million
- Tron: Ares…$11.1 Million
- Good Fortune…$6.2 Million
- One Battle After Another…$4.0 Million
- Roofman…$3.7 Million
- Truth & Treason…$2.7 Million
- Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie…$1.7 Million
- The Conjuring: Last Rites…$1.57 Million
- After the Hunt…$1.55 Million
- Soul on Fire…$1.3 Million