US Edition‘Regretting You’ and ‘Black Phone 2’ Neck-in-Neck on Slow Halloween Box Office Weekend (Copy)
Studios avoided major new releases, leading to the lowest October ticket sales since 1998 with $443 million in total sales, excluding the pandemic year 2020.
- With final figures due Monday, the movie exhibition business is closing out one of its slowest Octobers in over 25 years with a sluggish Halloween weekend at U.S. and Canadian theaters.
- Studios avoided opening major new films with Halloween on a Friday and the World Series on Friday and Saturday, opting for re-releases including Back to the Future and KPop Demon Hunters.
- Despite studio competition, no film topped $10 million that weekend, with Paramount reporting Regretting You earned $8.1 million and Comscore giving it first place.
- The weekend may net out as one of the lowest grossing of the year, closing an unusually slow October, while Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore’s head of marketplace trends, said `This was a truly scary weekend` and noted the audience was fragmented.
- Studios are banking on bigger fall releases like Wicked: For Good and Zootopia 2, while Universal's Back to the Future earned $4.7 million from 2,290 theaters and the 1985 original now has a domestic total of $221.7 million.
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Morganton News Herald
'Regretting You,' 'Black Phone 2' neck-and-neck at box office
The movie exhibition business is closing out one of its slowest Octobers in over 25 years with a sluggish Halloween weekend. Studios avoided opening any major new films with the holiday falling on a Friday. Instead, there were several rereleases…
Beatrice Daily Sun
The Grand Island Independent‘Regretting You,’ ‘Black Phone 2’ neck-and-neck at box office
The movie exhibition business is closing out one of its slowest Octobers in over 25 years with a sluggish Halloween weekend. Studios avoided opening any major new films with the holiday falling on a Friday. Instead, there were several rereleases…
‘Regretting You’ and ‘Black Phone 2’ neck-in-neck on slow Halloween box office weekend (copy)
The movie exhibition business is closing out one of its slowest Octobers in over 25 years with a sluggish Halloween weekend. Studios avoided opening any major new films with the holiday falling on a Friday. Instead, there were several re-releases…
‘Regretting You’ and ‘Black Phone 2’ neck-in-neck on slow Halloween weekend
The movie exhibition business is closing out one of its slowest Octobers in over 25 years with a sluggish Halloween weekend. Studios avoided opening any major new films with the holiday falling on a Friday. Instead, there were several re-releases including “Back to the Future,” which is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and the Netflix phenomenon “KPop Demon Hunters.” But even with a top 10 in which no films earned more than $10 million, there w…
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