It has been the quietest October at the box office in nearly thirty years, and now it has also been revealed to be the quietest film-going weekend of this year.
The entire weekend is reportedly on track to come in at around $49 million, with the highest earner being “Black Phone 2” at $7.6 million in its third weekend.
The weekend was hit by multiple factors – Halloween falling on a Friday, the final World Series game between the LA Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays set for Sunday, and a real lack of new major studio-wide release titles.
Only two adjustments were made to the release slate. One was Netflix releasing “KPop Demon Hunters” singalong version back in cinemas two months after the highly successful $18 million gross from the first go around back in August.
This time around, it was a fizzer – the title settling for just $3.4 million in seventh place for the weekend. With the film having been released on Netflix four months ago and hitting big with the first cinema go-around two months ago, it seems the craze that dominated the Summer has now definitely subsided.
Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Bugonia” had its wide release this weekend and is tracking to pull in $4.4 million in fourth place – the film is faring much better than his “Kinds of Kindness” last year, which grossed $5 million domestically over its entire run.
The other films of the top six were the second weekends of “Regretting You” in second place with $6.7 million (down 51%), “Chainsaw Man” in third with $5.5 million (down 69%) and “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” in sixth with $3.6 million (down 60%).
Fifth place went to the re-release of “Back to the Future,” which is tracking for a $3.9 million three-day haul. “Tron: Ares” was eighth with $2.8 million. The animated kids supernatural feature “Stitch Head” from Briarcliff Entertainment had a $2.2 million opening in ninth place.
Source: Variety
