{"id":118197,"date":"2025-11-02T20:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/118197\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:25:07","slug":"october-box-office-plunges-to-three-decade-low-as-flops-like-tron-ares-smashing-machine-pile-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/118197\/","title":{"rendered":"October Box Office Plunges to Three-Decade Low as Flops Like \u2018Tron: Ares,\u2019 \u2018Smashing Machine\u2019 Pile Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

October was a bust at the box office as big-budget tentpoles and awards contenders like Disney\u2019s \u201cTron: Ares<\/a>\u201d and Dwayne Johnson<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Smashing Machine<\/a>\u201d struggled to sell tickets.<\/p>\n

Overall revenues for the month were tragic with $425 million across all titles, the worst collective haul since October 1997 \u2014 when psychological thriller \u201cKiss the Girls,\u201d slasher \u201cI Know What You Did Last Summer<\/a>\u201d and supernatural mind-bender \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Advocate<\/a>\u201d were the top-grossing titles \u2014 with $385 million, not adjusted for inflation. This ignominious record doesn\u2019t include 2020 when theaters hadn\u2019t rebounded from the pandemic and major studios were less than eager to unveil new films.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn inauspicious Halloween ended a rather challenging month of October at the box office,\u201d says Comscore<\/a>\u2019s head of marketplace trends Paul Dergarabedian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, this Halloween was especially dreadful with grosses between Friday and Sunday at just $49 million, marking the worst weekend of the entire year…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October was a bust at the box office as big-budget tentpoles and awards contenders like Disney\u2019s \u201cTron: Ares\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[33731,25503,33729,33730,9442,93,695,3211,61,60,270,33732,3212,904,282],"class_list":["post-118197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-acteurs","tag-actrices","tag-actualites","tag-celebrites","tag-cinema","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-realisateurs","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}