If all goes well, Scott Derrickson’s sequel Black Phone 2 will mark a turnaround for Blumhouse after a scary string of box office misses, culminating with the pricey flop of M3GAN 2.0 earlier this year in what was a both a professional and personal blow for Jason Blum .

Black Phone 2 started off its domestic box office run with $2.6 million in Thursday previews. Universal and Blumhouse are hoping for an $18 million domestic debut; others think it easily could do north of $20 million. In 2021 — when cinemas were first recovering from COVID — the first film took in $3 million in previews on its way to opening to $23.6 million in North America.

If all goes well, Scott Derrickson’s sequel Black Phone 2 will mark a turnaround for Blumhouse after a scary string of box office misse

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