{"id":257418,"date":"2025-11-02T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257418\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:02:10","slug":"with-no-competition-regretting-you-tops-halloween-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257418\/","title":{"rendered":"With no competition, Regretting You tops Halloween box office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollywood starred in its own horror movie this month, with box-office business hitting 30-year lows<\/a>. Ignoring the pandemic and inflation, the box office had its worst month since 1997. There will be plenty of finger-pointing over who\u2019s to blame (The LA Dodgers, Halloween festivities, Jared Leto), but as usual, the call is coming from inside the house, and Halloween weekend didn\u2019t help things. As major media conglomerates dueled over Taylor Sheridan<\/a> and decided the best way to carve up Warner Bros.<\/a>, all of them forgot\u2014or neglected\u2014to release anything new this weekend. With exactly zero new releases, The Numbers<\/a> estimates that the Colleen Hoover adaptation Regretting You<\/a> took the top of the box office with $8.1 million, and Black Phone 2 wasn\u2019t far behind at $8 million. We suppose we should thank the star of both films, Mason Thames, a.k.a. \u201cMr. October,\u201d for saving Hollywood over the worst box office weekend of the year.<\/p>\n

With nothing new, audiences returned to two movies they\u2019ve been enjoying for weeks. Chainsaw Man \u2014 The Movie picked up an additional $6 million for the three-week total of $30 million domestically. Chainsaw Man\u2018s $139 million global success is far behind Demon Slayer\u2018s global take of $667 million, but we\u2019re sure Sony isn\u2019t complaining. Tied for number three is another Sony release (sort of).\u00a0KPop Demon Hunters: A Netflix Sing-Along Event returned to 2,800 theaters this weekend. We say \u201cprobably\u201d because Netflix won\u2019t be reporting the film\u2019s grosses, Variety<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

Expanding this weekend, Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 Bugonia added more than 2,000 screens and made $4.8 million in its second week. Although Bugonia expanded much more quickly, and it theoretically benefited from years of Oscar wins for both the director and the star, the movie opened similarly to Lanthimos and Emma Stone\u2019s other collaborations, with some caveats. Kinds Of Kindness never hit as many theaters as Bugonia and topped out at under a thousand. Meanwhile, Poor Things overperformed in about 800 theaters for a month, grossing $17 million, before expanding wide and reaching $100 million. Bugonia would have to hold strong with audiences over the next few weeks to meet Poor Things, but this weekend, it was enough to beat a Back To The Future re-release, which made $4.7 million.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the rest of the 10 ten:<\/p>\n

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1. Regretting You ($8.1 million)
\n2. Black Phone 2 ($8 million)
\n3. Chainsaw Man \u2014 The Movie: Reze Arc ($6 million)
\n4. KPop Demon Hunters: A Netflix Sing-Along Event\u00a0 ($6 million)
\n5. Bugonia ($4.8 million)
\n6. Back To The Future Re-release ($4.7 million)
\n7. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere ($3.8 million)
\n8. Tron: Ares ($2.8 million)
\n9. Stitchhead ($2.1 million)
\n10. Good Fortune ($1.4 million)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood starred in its own horror movie this month, with box-office business hitting 30-year lows. Ignoring the pandemic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-257418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}