Same problem here. I have small scene with no displacement etc. all in corona custom material and nearly 20 % of the frames were black.
When i red this topic i’ve changed to PT + PT and everything seems fine… just render will take sooo long time… i have 1200 frames.
what Corona version do you use? can you share the scene?
If I am correct, you are running out of Ram memory. PT+PT will do the job but slower.