{"id":798247,"date":"2026-10-10T16:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T16:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798247\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T16:18:24","slug":"box-office-other-mommy-makes-3-6-million-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798247\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Other Mommy’ Makes $3.6 Million in Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter \u201cObsession\u201d and \u201cBackrooms\u201d made 2026 a huge year for horror, Jessica Chastain<\/a>\u2018s \u201cOther Mommy<\/a>\u201d is looking to continue the trend at the box office this weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Universal movie, produced by Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, has made $3.6 million in previews from 2,850 domestic screens. It\u2019s expected to open with $22 million to $28 million<\/a> this weekend, with some predictions as high as $35 million, thanks to the banner year that horror movies have had. \u201cOther Mommy\u201d should have enough to triumph over last week\u2019s box office champ, the Colleen Hoover adaptation \u201cVerity\u201d (starring Anne Hathaway as another freaky mother).<\/p>\n

\n\tChastain plays Ursula, the mom to a young daughter named Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark), but she also plays a strange, terrifying entity known as \u201cOther Mommy\u201d who looks exactly like Ursula. Their family, including Ursula\u2019s husband Russell (Jay Duplass), is terrorized by this evil, supernatural mom. The cast also includes Dichen Lachman, Arian Moayed, Karen Allen, Sean Kaufman and more. It\u2019s based on the 2024 novel \u201cIncidents Around the House\u201d by Josh Malerman, which won several awards for top horror books. The trailer for the movie, which includes a particularly frightening jump scare from Chastain as Other Mommy, went viral online after playing in front of theatrical screenings.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOther Mommy\u201d will easily beat out this weekend\u2019s other new release, Sony\u2019s \u201cThe Social Reckoning,\u201d which is tracking an opening in the low single digits between $5 million and $10 million. The film made $650,000 in previews. Directed by Aaron Sorkin, \u201cThe Social Reckoning\u201d is a follow-up to 2010\u2019s \u201cThe Social Network\u201d and chronicles the 2021 Facebook leak by whistleblower Frances Haugen (played by Mikey Madison). Jeremy Strong plays Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the new movie, while Jeremy Allen White is Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, who digs into thousands of pages of internal documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After \u201cObsession\u201d and \u201cBackrooms\u201d made 2026 a huge year for horror, Jessica Chastain\u2018s \u201cOther Mommy\u201d is looking to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,58778,2839,65814,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-jessica-chastain","tag-movies","tag-other-mommy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}