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Halloween weekend turned into a horror show for the domestic box office, with theaters only bringing in an estimated $49 million-$53 million, according to early numbers reported by the Hollywood<\/a> trade publications<\/a>\u2014marking one of the worst weekends of the year and capping the worst-performing October since the 1990s.<\/p>\n \u201cRegretting You\u201d led the box office over the weekend, but only grossed an estimated $8.1 million.<\/p>\n Paramount Pictures via Getty ImagesKey Facts<\/p>\n \u201cRegretting You,\u201d an adaptation of a Colleen Hoover romance novel that debuted last weekend, marked a surprise win at the box office\u2014grossing $8.1 million for the first place slot, although largely meeting projections, including those published by Box Office Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cBlack Phone 2,\u201d the Blumhouse horror film starring Ethan Hawke, came in second place with $8 million on its third weekend in theaters.<\/p>\n A theatrical re-release of Netflix\u2019s runaway hit \u201cKpop Demon Hunters\u201d also failed to draw crowds, despite past success<\/a> with limited theatrical releases, only grossing an estimated $6 million, Variety<\/a> reported based on projections from rival studios (Netflix has not reported ticket sales).<\/p>\n \u201cChainsaw Man,\u201d the anime film that became a surprise box office hit after its American debut last weekend, also posted a 66% loss over the weekend to only gross $6 million.<\/p>\n Key Background<\/p>\n October is traditionally a bad month for the box office, but this October was the lowest-performing October for the domestic box office in the last 27 years, not counting 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Box office cumulative gross dropped to just $425 million in October, according to data from Box Office Mojo. The last time it was that low for the month of October was 1998, when theaters grossed a total of $422 million.<\/p>\n Why Did The Box Office Perform So Poorly?<\/p>\n Some external factors could have contributed to this weekend\u2019s poor performance. No new films debuted in theaters this weekend, although a wider release of Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 \u201cBugonia\u201d managed to gross an estimated $4.8 million. Halloween also fell on a Friday, and the World Series went to game 7 on Saturday night. It likely did not help that one of the teams playing was the Los Angeles Dodgers, drawing spectators away from theaters in the city at the center for Hollywood film production. The poor performance during the rest of October might be explained by the lack of big debuts over the course of the month. The highly anticipated \u201cTron: Ares\u201d was widely seen as a bomb<\/a>, opening with only $33.2 million on a reported budget of $180 million. The second-biggest hit at the box office this month was \u201cBlack Phone 2,\u201d which still only grossed $55.8 million in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Halloween weekend turned into a horror show for the domestic box office, with theaters only bringing in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[9867,18,117,1239,19,17,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-159300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-box-office","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hollywood","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115481920308503782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}