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Regretting You Noses Past Black Phone 2 as Halloween Box Office Hits Year’s Low

Calendar distractions and a lack of fresh wide releases kept theaters quiet.

Overview

  • Comscore tallied roughly $43 million for the weekend, the year’s worst frame, and put October at about $425 million, the weakest October in 27 years.
  • Comscore credited Paramount’s Regretting You with a narrow No. 1 at an estimated $8.1 million, just ahead of Universal/Blumhouse’s Black Phone 2 at about $8 million and near $61 million domestic to date.
  • Sony/Crunchyroll’s Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc added around $6 million in its second weekend, lifting its North American total to roughly $30 million.
  • Focus Features expanded Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia to 2,043 theaters for about $4.8 million, while Universal’s 40th‑anniversary Back to the Future reissue earned an estimated $4.7 million.
  • Netflix did not report grosses for its KPop Demon Hunters re‑release; exhibitors and rival studios estimated roughly $5–6 million, well below its August theatrical engagement, as attention shifts to November tentpoles to restore momentum.