This weekend was expected to be a new low for the 2025 box office, and it is close to that overall grosses sinking to just $54 million while Universal/Blumhouse’s “Black Phone 2″and Paramount/Constantin’s “Regretting You” are in a tight race for the No. 1 spot.
This weekend is narrowly above the overall weekend low for 2025, which was the $52.2 million on the weekend of March 14, when Paramount’s “Novocaine” opened at No. 1 with just $8.8 million.
With Halloween falling on a Friday and millions of people expected to be out trick-or-treating or partying rather than going to the movies, studios stayed away from releasing any major new films this weekend. That ended up being an even smarter decision considering that the World Series went to a deciding Game 7 on Saturday, serving as even more competition for theaters.
All that said, a strong Saturday rebound for “Regretting You” among its core female audience has given it the edge for the top spot on the charts with a second weekend of $8.1 million. It’s a 41% drop from the Colleen Hoover adaptation’s opening weekend and gives the movie a 10-day total of $27.5 million.
“Black Phone 2” is right on their heels with $8 million, still doing respectably with a running domestic total of $61.4 million, just behind its 2022 predecessor’s total of $62.4 million after three weekends.
In third is last weekend’s No. 1 film, Sony/Crunchyroll’s “Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc” with $6 million in its second weekend. It’s a big 67% drop from the film’s $17.2 million weekend, but that’s expected from franchise anime films which lockout general audiences with continuity. With $30.1 million, it only needs $4.3 million to pass “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” as Crunchyroll’s second highest grossing film ever domestically.
Taking the No. 4 spot is Focus Features’ “Bugonia,” which expanded wide to 2,043 locations after a 17-screen limited release last weekend and earned $4.8 million.
This is the widest release ever for director Yorgos Lanthimos, though with the stacked November competition coming up, “Bugonia” is unlikely to match the $34 million domestic runs of the filmmaker’s most financially successful films, “The Favourite” and “Poor Things.”
While some audiences were put off by the film’s bleak tone, “Bugonia” is still enjoying largely positive reception with a B on CinemaScore alongside Rotten Tomatoes scores of 86% critics and 83% audience.
More to come…
