Overview
- Comscore pegs October at about $440 million, the lowest October since 1998, with the Halloween frame tracking near $49 million for the year’s weakest weekend.
- Universal/Blumhouse’s Black Phone 2 is projected to lead with roughly $7.6 million in its third weekend, bringing its North American total to about $61 million.
- Paramount’s Regretting You is set for around $6.6–$6.7 million in second weekend earnings (about a 51% drop), while Chainsaw Man is projected near $5.5 million (roughly a 70% fall).
- Focus Features widened Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia to about 2,043 theaters for an estimated $4.4 million, marking the director’s biggest wide weekend to date.
- Universal’s 40th‑anniversary reissue of Back to the Future is eyeing about $3.8–$3.9 million, and industry estimates place Netflix’s unreported KPop Demon Hunters re‑engagement near $3.4 million.