Black Phone 2 Box Office Set For Record-Breaking Debut, Good Fortune Falls Behind

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Black Phone 2 is outpacing Good Fortune at the box office during their mutual opening weekend. 2025’s Black Phone 2 is a sequel to the 2022 horror hit The Black Phonewhich adapted the Joe Hill short story of the same name. Meanwhile, Good Fortunewhich is the feature directorial debut of Aziz Ansari, is an original comedy starring Keanu Reeves as a bumbling guardian angel.

Per Deadlineas of Saturday morning, Black Phone 2 is projected to earn a 3-day opening weekend gross of $24.4 million at the domestic box office. This total will make it the highest-grossing installment in the Black Phone franchise so farexceeding the original movie’s $23.6 million debut.

It also marks Blumhouse’s best opening weekend of the yearblasting past the debut totals of Wolf Man ($10.9 million), The Woman in the Yard ($9.4 million), Drop ($7.4 million), and M3GAN 2.0 ($10.2 million), none of which hit their break-even points in theaters.

Black Phone 2 exceeding the original movie’s debut, even by a small margin, is a good sign for the Blumhouse movie. The Black Phone was a smash success three years agogrossing $161.4 million against a reported budget of roughly $16 million and becoming the fourth highest-grossing horror movie of 2022 worldwide (behind Nope, M3GANand Smile).

If it continues on its current trajectory, Black Phone 2 (which features Ethan Hawke’s The Grabber haunting returning stars Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw) could potentially gross more than $165 million worldwide by the end of its run.

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While the movie was a riskier prospect, with its reported budget of $30 million nearly doubling the price tag of the original installment, Black Phone 2 could still earn back more than quintuple what it costpotentially cementing The Black Phone as a major new franchise if another sequel is greenlit off the back of that total.

While Black Phone 2 is finding success so far, its fellow new release, Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortunehas not proven to be so lucky. Its projected 3-day domestic debut is only $6 million. The comedy reportedly also cost $30 millionthough distributor Lionsgate acquired the title and is likely not on the hook for earning back that price tag.

The movie, which follows Keanu Reeves’ Gabriel switching the lives of a poor assistant (Ansari) and his rich boss (Seth Rogen), has performed well critically, earning a Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 77%. It has also earned a CinemaScore of B+, which could be a good sign for its potential as a word-of-mouth success.

However, in the long run, it seems probable that Black Phone 2 will triumph over Good Fortune at the global box office, if these debut totals are any indication. Regardless, if the comedy doesn’t hit its break-even point in theaters, it could very well do so down the road on VOD and streaming if this early word-of-mouth eventually snowballs.

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