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By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | November 3, 2025
Ooft, it was a bad week for the box office. It was the lowest-grossing Halloween weekend in 31 years, according to The Hollywood Reporter (excluding 2020, when COVID shutdowns were in place). In fairness, there weren’t any major new releases, and the World Series was on, so things were bound to be somewhat disappointing.
This led to a fight (?) for the top between Regretting You, a romantic drama based on a novel by Colleen Hoover, and horror sequel The Black Phone 2. The former claimed victory with $8.1 million versus $8 million from the latter. As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, there isn’t a consensus on Regretting You being number one. But fighting over this when there was zero competition and the intakes are so small is more a bragging rights thing than anything else.
Netflix put its mega-hit KPop Demon Hunters in cinemas, and it brought in an extra $5.3 million over Halloween weekend. Smart move. I saw a lot of people dressed like those characters on Friday night.
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia expanded to over 2,000 theatres, which gave its gross a $4.8 million boost. That was enough to get the dark comedy to number five.
But the highest ‘new’ release of the weekend? That was an anniversary re-release. Back to the Future turned 40, so it was time for another theatrical run. Sadly, it did not make $88 million, but $4.7 million from 2,290 locations. That was more than Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which slumped to number seven in its second week of release with only $3.8 million.
Speaking of re-releases, we got three whole Twilight movies back in cinemas this past weekend. Millennial nostalgia plus spooky season equals gold? Well, not necessarily. While Breaking Dawn parts one and two brought in about $1.09 million combined, Eclipse only made $303,206. We’re just not committed to Sparkle Motion anymore.
Back to actually new releases. The cutesy monster animation Stitch Head took in $2.1 million from 2,162 theatres; Baahubali: The Epic, an Indian drama from S. S. Rajamouli, the director of RRR, grossed $837,000 from 448 theatres; political drama Anniversary made $259,180; revenge thriller Violent Ends scared up $91,392 from 700 cinemas; and Coexistence, My Ass!, a documentary about the Israeli comedian and activist Noam Shuster Eliassi, earned $14,050.
This coming week sees the release of Predator: Badlands, Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, and the war drama Nuremberg.
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.
