There were no treats for theater chain owners. The domestic box office stumbled to $49.8M, the lowest weekend of 2025. You have to go back 20 months—to Feb. 9–11, 2024’s Super Bowl frame at $37.0M—to find a softer result. Halloween landing on Friday didn’t help; siphoning traffic from what’s usually the second-strongest day of the frame, Friday showtimes took a hit.
Last year, with Halloween on Thursday, the comparable Fri–Sun (Nov. 1–3) reached $71.6M, led by Venom: The Last Dance at $25.9M (wk 2). Relief should come next weekend with Disney/20th’s Predator: Badlands.
The Black Phone 2 (Universal/Blumhouse) — $8.3M
Blumhouse’s sequel claimed the top spot with $8.3M, edging Paramount’s Regretting You. The three-week cume continues to look healthy given the series’ disciplined budgets; even if it trails the first film’s final, the WW gross-to-budget ratio already points to profitability and keeps a third installment in play. (Weekend drop: mid-30s %, consistent with horror hold patterns as November titles arrive.)
Snapshot vs. 2022 original (after 17 days):
- Opening: $26.5M (orig.) vs. low-20s (sequel)
- 17-day total: slightly ahead of the original’s pace in domestic dollars
- Budget: ~$20M (sequel) vs. ~$18M (orig.)
- RT: 72% Critics / 83% Audience (sequel) vs. 81% / 88% (orig.)
Regretting You (Sony/Paramount release note) — $7.8M (-~43%)
Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You slid to second with $7.8M, bringing 10-day totals to $27.5M domestic / $50.8M WW. Despite solid audience scores (86% RT Audience), the film is significantly under It Ends With Us at the same point (that one hit $97.6M in 10 days, finishing at $148.5M domestic / $351.4M WW). With a $30M budget, breakeven (~$75M WW) remains a stretch without outsized holds or international upside.
At a glance (after 10 days):
- Regretting You: $27.5M dom. | $50.8M WW | 29% RT Critics / 86% Audience
- It Ends With Us: $97.6M dom. | $351.4M WW | 54% / 88%
Hoover pipeline: Reminders of Him (Paramount, Mar 13, 2026) and Verity (Amazon MGM, Oct 2, 2026).
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc (MAPPA) — $6.0M (-67%)
Week-two drop puts the anime hit at $30.8M domestic and $180M WW after 10 days—short of Demon Slayer: Mugen Train’s breakneck pace but robust enough to justify future Chainsaw Man features.
Bugonia (Focus) — $4.8M (+576% with expansion to 2,043)
Yorgos Lanthimos reteams with Emma Stone in this genre-bending remake of Save the Green Planet! Themes span pharma malfeasance, conspiracy culture, environmental collapse (bee motif), and alien-invasion paranoia.
- 10-day domestic: $5.8M
- RT: 86% Critics / 83% Audience (vs. Poor Things: 92% / 80%)
- Budget: ~$50M → Profit threshold ~$125M WW
Focus is flipping the Poor Things rollout playbook by going wide earlier to capitalize on the Lanthimos/Stone halo.
Back to the Future (Universal — 40th Anniversary) — $4.7M
The evergreen classic lifts its domestic lifetime to $221.7M. The reissue underscores why 1985’s top grosser still crackles: time-travel wish fulfillment, DeLorean iconography, and a Huey Lewis hook that never quits.
A NOTE ABOUT KPOP Demon Hunters
Netflix’s re-release returned to theaters with AMC aboard this time (400 locations; three-day run vs. prior two-day). With Netflix not reporting to Comscore, official ranking is murky; industry chatter pegs the frame near $5.3M, which would land it around fourth for the weekend. The reporting blackout will resurface with Wake Up Dead Men (Nov. 26). Contrast coming: Amazon’s Project Hail Mary (Mar. 20, 2026) is projected as a major box office/awards contender—and Amazon will tout the grosses.
Weekend Box Office 10/31–11/2
Courtesy of Comscore
| Rank | Title | Wk | Theatres | Weekend | % Change | Average / Theatre | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Black Phone 2 (Universal) | 3 | 3,305 | $8,300,000 | -38% | $2,512 | $61,454,000 |
| 2 | Regretting You (Paramount) | 2 | 3,425 | $7,800,000 | -41% | $2,278 | $27,534,000 |
| 3 | Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc (Sony/Crunchyroll) | 2 | 3,003 | $6,000,000 | -67% | $1,998 | $30,769,000 |
| 4 | Bugonia (Focus) | 2 | 2,043 | $4,800,000 | +576% | $2,349 | $5,815,000 |
| 5 | Back to the Future (Universal Re-release) | 1 | 2,290 | $4,700,000 | — | $2,052 | $4,700,000 |
| 6 | Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (20th Century) | 2 | 3,460 | $3,800,000 | -57% | $1,098 | $16,270,557 |
| 7 | Tron: Ares (Disney) | 4 | 2,575 | $2,800,000 | -43% | $1,087 | $67,894,660 |
| 8 | Stitch Head (Briarcliff) | 1 | 2,162 | $2,100,000 | — | $971 | $2,500,000 |
| 9 | Good Fortune (Lionsgate) | 3 | 2,150 | $1,400,000 | -55% | $651 | $14,621,000 |
| 10 | One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) | 6 | 904 | $1,150,000 | -49% | $1,272 | $67,758,000 |
Total Weekend Gross: $42,850,000
REELated:
Chainsaw Man slices to the Box Office top
