Overview
- Industry gauges put the three-day market near the bottom of 2025, with estimates ranging roughly $49 million to $54 million for the weekend and October tallying about $440 million, the weakest October since 1998 per Comscore.
- Universal/Blumhouse’s Black Phone 2 is around $7.6–$8 million for the frame with a domestic total near $61 million, while updated estimates show Paramount’s Regretting You around $8.1 million in a razor-thin race for first.
- Sony/Crunchyroll’s Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc is projecting about $5.5–$6 million in its second weekend after a steep but typical anime drop, pushing its domestic total past $30 million.
- Focus Features widened Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia to 2,043 locations for about $4.4–$4.8 million, marking the director’s biggest wide-weekend start and drawing a B grade from CinemaScore.
- Reissues and limited engagements contributed modestly, with Universal’s Back to the Future projected around $3.8–$4.7 million and Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters estimated between roughly $3.4 million and $5.5 million as Netflix does not report grosses.