{"id":798445,"date":"2026-10-10T20:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798445\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T20:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T20:48:10","slug":"other-mommy-box-office-wins-opening-weekend-social-reckoning-soft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798445\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Other Mommy’ Box Office Wins Opening Weekend; ‘Social Reckoning’ Soft"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOther Mommy<\/a> is the head of the household at the box office<\/a> in its opening weekend, while The Social Reckoning<\/a> faces a tough status report. <\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal Pictures released Other Mommy in 3,200 North American theaters, and the horror title grossed $12.6 million Friday, including Thursday previews<\/a>, as it heads to around $28 million for the weekend. Director Rob Savage\u2019s film looks to end up above the studio\u2019s projected $20 million<\/a> opening for the $19 million-budgeted film, which stars Jessica Chastain<\/a> as a sinister entity that appears in a young girl\u2019s closet.<\/p>\n

\n\tWord of mouth is unlikely to be in the movie\u2019s favor, as it earned a woeful D+ CinemaScore from audiences, the lowest grade for a film since Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s Megalopolis in September 2024. Critical response has been similarly dismal, with Other Mommy holding a 19 percent approval rating from reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes, along with a 46 percent audience score. In his review for The Hollywood Reporter, critic Richard Lawson deemed<\/a> the movie \u201can attractive but mostly vacuous collection of jumpy bits and half-baked mythology.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe launch for Sony Pictures\u2019 The Social Reckoning is even softer than expected, as director Aaron Sorkin<\/a>\u2018s Facebook-focused feature notched $2.1 million Friday, including Thursday previews, for a start of roughly $6 million. This is slightly below the $7 million the studio expected for the fact-based thriller starring Mikey Madison<\/a>, Jeremy Allen White<\/a> and Jeremy Strong<\/a>, which follows a Facebook staffer (Madison) working with a journalist (White) to expose concerning truths about the company. The $30 million-budgeted movie launched in 2,606 North American locations.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJeremy Allen White and Mikey Madison in The Social Reckoning.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSony Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter winning an Academy Award for penning the screenplay for 2010\u2019s The Social Network, Sorkin replaces David Fincher in the director\u2019s chair for the companion piece. Starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in the story of Facebook\u2019s early days, that film was a bona fide hit, opening at No. 1 with $22.4 million in October 2010 before an impressive run took it to $224 million globally. Strong portrays an older Zuckerberg in the new movie.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile The Social Network boasts a 96 Rotten Tomatoes score, critics have been mixed on the follow-up, as The Social Reckoning holds a 54 percent approval from reviewers and a 71 percent audience rating. In his review for THR, chief film critic David Rooney praised<\/a> it as an \u201cengrossing whistleblower thriller.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDebuting in limited release from A24 was Chris Rock\u2019s Misty Green<\/a>, which nabbed $27,000 on Friday from six locations in New York and Los Angeles. Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver and Daniel Kaluuya star in the film that Rooney described<\/a> as \u201cthe work of a mature director who knows what he wants to say.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tRosalind Eleazar in Misty Green.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA24<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother specialty release hitting theaters was Alex Gibney\u2019s Elon Musk<\/a>-focused documentary Musk, with the Bleecker Street title collecting $28,000 on Friday from four screens. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlso launching theatrically was the documentary NAZA<\/a>, earning $85,000 Friday from 72 North American locations. The Israeli-American Council organized a protest<\/a> on Friday outside of the Laemmle NoHo 7 in North Hollywood, timed to the screening of the feature that examines Israel\u2019s military operations in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\n\tLooking to claim second place is Verity<\/a>, Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 Colleen Hoover adaptation that was last weekend\u2019s winner<\/a>. It is expected to gross around $14.2 million for a domestic cume of $56.5 million, marking a decline of roughly 56 percent in its sophomore frame. Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett star in filmmaker Michael Showalter\u2019s thriller about a woman getting in over her head after landing a ghostwriting gig.<\/p>\n

\n\tSony\u2019s Resident Evil<\/a> eyes $8.2 million in its fourth frame to bring its total domestic take to roughly $138.3 million. Austin Abrams stars in Zach Cregger\u2019s reboot of the franchise that adapts the video game property.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\u2019s Heart of the Beast looks to add $6.7 million to bring its domestic total to $49.3 million in its third weekend. David Ayer\u2019s thriller stars Brad Pitt as a Special Forces officer navigating the wilderness with his combat dog. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other Mommy is the head of the household at the box office in its opening weekend, while The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[21043,7214,96,12045,92335,58778,21044,262523,2839,13934,247522,65814,40898,92337,56,54,55,190524],"class_list":["post-798445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-aaron-sorkin","tag-box-office","tag-entertainment","tag-jeremy-allen-white","tag-jeremy-strong","tag-jessica-chastain","tag-mikey-madison","tag-misty-green","tag-movies","tag-musk","tag-naza","tag-other-mommy","tag-resident-evil","tag-the-social-reckoning","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-verity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798445","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=798445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}