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By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | October 12, 2026
Horror films are a safe bet for box office success in all 12 months of the year, but it’s currently mid-October and spooky season demands a scary movie. Audiences had two options: a jump-scare heavy horror with a creepy mother-demon, or Mark Zuckerberg. For the sake of their own safety, they chose the former.
Other Mommy didn’t get great reviews but it did have one hell of a marketing campaign, and a truly unnerving trailer. That was more than enough to push it to the number one spot with an opening weekend of $27.5 million from 3,365 locations.
Alas, Aaron Sorkin couldn’t get people back into cinemas for the return of the Zuck. The Social Reckoning, his follow-up to 2010’s The Social Network, opened soft at number five with only $5.5 million. Reviews were tepid, nowhere near the raves that his David Fincher-directed predecessor received, and I think people just didn’t want to have to think about Meta ruining our lives for two hours. Well, two hours more than usual. It seems that Jesse Eisenberg made the right call in not reprising the lead role.
Angel and the Badman is a John Wayne Western from 1947 that’s now in the public domain, so apparently that was reason enough for Angel Studios to remake it. But who could replace John Wayne? How about Zachary Levi? Politically, it makes sense. In literally every other aspect, what the hell? Audiences seem to have had the same reaction, as this remake landed with a thud at number nine with just over $2 million.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth just turned 20, and it received an anniversary re-release in celebration and grossed $1,664,252. 9 to 5 also received a re-release, presumably to commemorate the life of Dolly Parton, but that one only made $150,000 from 1,275 places.
In limited release news: Queen Live in Budapest, a concert film featuring the legendary rock band on tour in 1986, sang up $681,000 from 312 cinemas; Fjord, the 2026 Palme d’Or winner starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, earned $124,000 from only four locations; Misty Green, directed by Chris Rock, grossed $85,716; Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry (artist? Isn’t he a basketball player?) took in $85,000 from 208 courts; Musk, Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary on that f**king guy, made $68,900; the Mormon movie Brother Joseph Again earned $36,248; James McAvoy’s directorial debut California Schemin’ (set in Dundee and partly shot about 10 minutes from my house!), got $18,659; and My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile, the second part in a documentary series about Russian journalists confronting Putin’s regime, made $7,500.
This coming week sees the release of the Austen romance Sense and Sensibility, the ocean horror Whalefall, and the video game adaptation punch-fest Street Fighter.
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.
