Paramount and Constantin Films’ Regretting You — the second Colleen Hoover adaptation following It Ends With Us— takes first place in a sluggish Halloween weekend box office. The romance-drama earned an estimated $8.1 millionfrom 3,245 theaters in its second weekend under David Ellison’s new Paramount regime.
Domestically, the film has brought in $27.5 million over 10 days. Internationally, it added $8.2 million from 56 markets, reaching $23.3 million overseas and a $50.8 million global total.
Blumhouse’s ‘Black Phone 2’ Passes $100 Million
Blumhouse scored another success as Black Phone 2 crossed the $104 million mark. The horror sequel now stands at $61.5 million domestically and $43.3 million abroad, including $7.3 million over the weekend.
‘Chainsaw Man’ Drops but Holds Strong Worldwide
The Japanese anime feature Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc saw a sharp 67% decline in its second weekend, earning $6 million domestically for a 10-day total of $30.8 million. Despite the dip, the film’s $139 million global gross remains impressive. Sony’s Crunchyroll division, which handles the title in the U.S. and several foreign markets, accounts for $87.4 million of that total.
A Quiet Halloween Weekend
With no major new releases, ticket sales slumped. The Halloween holiday landed on Friday, pulling families toward trick-or-treating instead of theaters. Saturday night’s Major League Baseball championship also competed for attention, as the Los Angeles Dodgers edged out the Toronto Blue Jays in a dramatic Game 7.
From Friday through Sunday, total box office revenue hit just $49 million — the lowest weekend of the year, according to Comscore.
October Ends with Weak Results
October closed on a disappointing note. Big titles such as Disney’s Tron: Ares and Dwayne Johnson’s The Smashing Machine failed to draw large crowds. It marked one of the weakest months in decades, with total revenues reaching only $425 million. That’s the worst October performance since 1997, when Kiss the Girls, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Devil’s Advocate led the charts with a combined $385 million — not adjusted for inflation.
Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian noted that Halloween weekend hasn’t been this slow since 1993, when revenue totaled $49.2 million unadjusted.
The slump underscores a year of inconsistent box office momentum, as studios struggle to balance major releases, audience shifts, and competition from streaming and live events.
The top 12 movies of the weekend, as of Sunday, November 2, are as follows:
| # | Title | Distributor Name | Weekend Total | # of Locs | Loc Avg | Cume Total | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Regretting You | Paramount | $8,100,000 | 3,425 | $2,365 | $27,534,000 | -41% |
| 2 | Black Phone 2 | Universal | $8,000,000 | 3,305 | $2,421 | $61,454,000 | -38% |
| 3 | Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc | Sony/Crunchyroll | $6,000,000 | 3,003 | $1,998 | $30,769,000 | -67% |
| 4 | Bugonia | Focus Features | $4,800,000 | 2,043 | $2,349 | $5,815,000 | 576% |
| 5 | Back to the Future | Universal | $4,700,000 | 2,290 | $2,052 | $221,742,000 | |
| 6 | Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere | 20th Century Studios | $3,800,000 | 3,460 | $1,098 | $16,270,557 | -57% |
| 7 | Tron: Ares | Disney | $2,800,000 | 2,575 | $1,087 | $67,894,660 | -43% |
| 8 | Stitch Head | Briarcliff | $2,100,000 | 2,162 | $971 | $2,500,000 | |
| 9 | Good Fortune | Lionsgate | $1,400,000 | 2,150 | $651 | $14,621,000 | -55% |
| 10 | One Battle After Another | Warner Bros. | $1,150,000 | 904 | $1,272 | $67,758,000 | -49% |
| 11 | Roofman | Paramount | $1,000,000 | 1,490 | $671 | $21,300,000 | -51% |
| 12 | Baahubali: The Epic | Variance Films | $837,300 | 448 | $1,869 | $837,300 |
