{"id":878792,"date":"2026-10-11T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878792\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:54:10","slug":"social-reckoning-flops-other-mommy-tops-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878792\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Social Reckoning’ Flops, ‘Other Mommy’ Tops Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cOther Mommy<\/a>,\u201d a horror movie starring Jessica Chastain as a double-jointed doppelg\u00e4nger from hell, scared up $27.5 million in its box office debut. Those ticket sales were enough to lead in North America over this weekend\u2019s other new release, \u201cThe Social Reckoning<\/a>,\u201d which crumbled in fifth place with $5.5 million.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOther Mommy\u201d landed above expectations despite being one of the worst-reviewed movies of the year. Universal and Blumhouse\u2019s campy thriller, about a sinister paranormal entity who takes on the appearance of a young girl\u2019s mother, was saddled with a 19% on Rotten Tomatoes and a tragic \u201cD+\u201d grade on CinemaScore exit polls. (Even last weekend\u2019s bomb \u201cDigger\u201d managed to earn a \u201cC+\u201d grade on exit polls.) Those marks don\u2019t bode well for box office longevity, though \u201cOther Mommy\u201d is well-positioned financially against a modest $18 million budget. The movie collected $17.69 million at the international box office, bringing its global tally to $45.19 million.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHorror movies are generally immune to a negative reception, but this is extreme,\u201d says analyst David A. Gross, who publishes the box office newsletter FranchiseRe. \u201cBusiness is going to drop sharply.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Social Reckoning,\u201d too, will have to combat poor word-of-mouth in the coming weeks. That\u2019s a problem because Sony\u2019s Facebook drama didn\u2019t incentivize crowds in the first place. The R-rated movie, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, was projected to open to $7 million to $8 million. Even those returns wouldn\u2019t have come close to 2010\u2019s \u201cThe Social Network,\u201d which opened almost exactly 16 years ago to $22 million, not adjusted for inflation. Overseas, \u201cThe Social Reckoning\u201d flatlined with $3.5 million from 29 markets for a $9 million worldwide start. <\/p>\n

\n\tCritics and audiences were mixed on \u201cThe Social Reckoning,\u201d which holds a 54% on Rotten Tomatoes and tepid \u201cB-\u201d grade on CinemaScore. The movie, picking up years after the first, follows a Facebook engineer (Mikey Madison) who leaks thousands of internal documents to a reporter (Jeremy Allen White) to blow the whistle on the company\u2019s dark practices. Ticket buyers were mostly older males, a demographic that\u2019s been slow to return to theaters since the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\n\tComparisons between the two films were always going to be tough because \u201cThe Social Network\u201d is widely considered one of the best films of the 2010s. That film, directed by David Fincher, written by Sorkin and starring Jessie Eisenberg as Zuckerberg, ended up earning $224 million globally and won four Oscars (including one for Sorkin\u2019s screenplay). Because of the first film\u2019s pedigree, and the fact that Fincher and Eisenberg didn\u2019t return for the second, Sony tried to distance the association <\/a>between the movies and called the follow-up a \u201ccompanion piece\u201d rather than a sequel. That\u2019s also likely why the studio economized on the budget; \u201cThe Social Reckoning\u201d carries a $30 million price tag while \u201cThe Social Network\u201d cost $40 million.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cStories about corporate intrigue, money and power have found a home on TV. They lack the cinematic qualities that excite big-screen audiences,\u201d Gross says. \u201cThe production cost was reasonable. But it\u2019s still a lot of money to recoup at these box office levels.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, \u201cDigger\u201d cratered in its second weekend with $3.2 million from 3,321 theaters, a 60% decline from its dismal $8 million debut. So far, the Tom Cruise satire has limped to $14 million domestically and $35.3 million globally. Warner Bros. spent above $160 million to produce the film, which is shaping up to be one of the biggest bombs ever, with losses that could top $200 million theatrically. Given the scale of the disaster, Hollywood stars have been coming to the defense of \u201cDigger,\u201d<\/a> with bold-faced names like Anne Hathaway, Jane Fonda, Guillermo del Toro and Mandy Patinkin praising the film and encouraging audiences to go to theaters. (Spoiler alert: It hasn\u2019t worked.)<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere, holdovers including Amazon MGM\u2019s Colleen Hoover adaptation \u201cVerity,\u201d Sony\u2019s \u201cResident Evil\u201d reboot and Paramount\u2019s Brad Pitt-led \u201cHeart of the Beast\u201d rounded out the box office charts.<\/p>\n

\n\tSecond place went to \u201cVerity\u201d with $11.4 million from 3,572 theaters, a steep 64% decline from its opening weekend. The psychological thriller, starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson, is a win for Amazon MGM, having grossed $53 million in North America and $113 million worldwide to date against a $40 million budget.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cResident Evil\u201d dropped to third place with $8.3 million in its fourth weekend. So far, the R-rated video game remake has generated a strong $138.5 million domestically and $300 million globally against a $75 million budget. This film and \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day,\u201d which is now the third-highest-grossing movie in history, will cushion any losses that Sony faces on \u201cThe Social Reckoning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHeart of the Beast,\u201d a wilderness thriller about a man who survives a plane crash with his dog, was No. 4 with $7.1 million from 3,365 theaters in its third frame. The film has earned $49.6 million in North America and $131.3 million worldwide. It\u2019s held steady but will need to keep chugging along in theaters to justify its $82 million production budget.<\/p>\n

\n\tChris Rock\u2019s directorial effort \u201cMisty Green,\u201d Alex Gibney\u2019s probing Elon Musk documentary \u201cMusk\u201d and Neon\u2019s Palme d\u2019Or winning \u201cFjord\u201d were among the new releases at the specialty box office. The commercial appeal of all three movies, which hope to find themselves in the Oscar race, will be tested as they roll out nationwide in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFjord,\u201d a legal thriller about parents (Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve) who are suspected of child abuse, enjoyed the strongest start with $124,000 from just four theaters in New York and Los Angeles \u2014 translating to $31,00 per location.<\/p>\n

\n\tA24\u2019s \u201cMisty Green,\u201d a showbiz drama about an actress (Rosalind Eleazar) fighting for her second act in Hollywood, collected $85,716 from six screens over the weekend \u2014 amounting to $14,286 per location \u2014 and $98,720 through its first four days in theaters.<\/p>\n

\n\tBleecker Street\u2019s \u201cMusk,\u201d an incisive look at the world\u2019s richest man, generated $68,900 from four locations \u2014 averaging $17,225 per screen \u2014 over the weekend. Those returns are notable considering \u201cMusk\u201d runs at nearly four hours (and has an intermission!), which limits each theater\u2019s daily showtimes.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo far, October has been sluggish after a stronger-than-expected September at the box office. Revenues for the month are 23% ahead of the same point in 2025, which wound up as the lowest-grossing October in three decades, and 8% behind 2019, the last year before COVID upended the box office. So upcoming releases like Paramount\u2019s video game adaptation \u201cStreet Fighter,\u201d Disney\u2019s survival thriller \u201cWhalefall\u201d and Warner Bros. and DC\u2019s comic book-inspired \u201cClayface\u201d are hoping to jolt attendance during the spookiest month of the year. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough October might not be one for the record books, Hollywood has plenty to celebrate. Domestic revenues already eclipsed $8 billion \u2014 a milestone the industry didn\u2019t cross last year until December. With major blockbusters like \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d and \u201cDune: Part III\u201d on schedule, this year will easily be the biggest at the box office in post-pandemic times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOther Mommy,\u201d a horror movie starring Jessica Chastain as a double-jointed doppelg\u00e4nger from hell, scared up $27.5 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,14496,108209],"class_list":["post-878792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-other-mommy","tag-the-social-reckoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}