Look, it’s been a weird fall for movies. Between Taylor Swift breaking AMC’s servers, new horror movie sequels shuffling around the charts, and anime dominating one weekend only to disappear the next, October’s box office has been unpredictable at best and discouraging at worst. But, amid the chaos, one thing is now undeniably true: Mason Thames had a better month than most studios.
Some people may probably know Thames from his breakout role in The Black Phone and, this October, he made waves again—well, twice. First, he returned as Finney in Black Phone 2, which earned a solid $8 million over Halloween weekend, bringing its domestic total to $61.5 million and, per Box Office Mojo, pushing it past $104 million globally. Then, he popped up again in Regretting You, a Colleen Hoover book-to-screen adaptation that also managed to snag $8.1 million domestically over the same weekend, narrowly edging out his own horror sequel for the top spot.
