Horror film dominates weekend box office

Jessica Chastain's Other Mommy, released by Universal Pictures, earned twenty seven point five million dollars in its first few days across three thousand three hundred sixty five theaters.

Other Mommy succeeds despite poor reviews

The supernatural horror film received a D plus CinemaScore from audiences and dismal reviews from critics, but with a nineteen million dollar production budget, it proved profitable for Blumhouse Atomic Monster.

Social Reckoning opens to disappointing numbers

Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning, about a Facebook whistleblower who leaked incriminating documents to a Wall Street Journal reporter, earned an estimated five point five million dollars from two thousand six hundred six North American…

Film trails far behind Sorkin's earlier work

Sixteen years ago, The Social Network, which Sorkin wrote and David Fincher directed, opened to over twenty two million dollars and went on to gross over two hundred twenty four million dollars worldwide, receiving eight…

Topical films unpredictable with audiences

Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak's head of marketplace trends, said October is when studios take chances. These movies that are topical in nature sometimes resonate with culture, sometimes they do not.

“These movies that are topical in nature, sometimes they resonate with the culture, sometimes they don't”

Overall box office remains strong

The annual domestic box office crossed eight billion dollars on Friday and is up over nineteen percent from last year, though it remains about eight percent behind two thousand nineteen.