The latest adaptation of a novel by romance maven Colleen Hoover couldn't save this Halloween weekend from cashing out as the worst in over 30 years. Regretting You barely ekes out a win in worst weekend of the year at the box office The latest adaptation of a novel by romance maven Colleen Hoover couldn't save this Halloween weekend from cashing out as the worst in over 30 years. By Ryan Coleman :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/RyanColemanauthorphoto0081ce8f0254478080f35972c433877b.

The latest adaptation of a novel by romance maven Colleen Hoover couldn't save this Halloween weekend from cashing out as the worst in over 30 years.

*Regretting You *barely ekes out a win in worst weekend of the year at the box office

The latest adaptation of a novel by romance maven Colleen Hoover couldn't save this Halloween weekend from cashing out as the worst in over 30 years.

By Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman is a news writer for with previous work in MUBI Notebook, Slant, and the LA Review of Books.

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McKenna Grace and Mason Thames in 'Regretting You'. Credit:

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Halloween weekend was a blood bath for the box office this year.

The cumulative $42.8 million grossed by the weekend's 10 top performing films represents the lowest figure of the year, and the worst turnout in over three decades for the holiday weekend, per Comscore.

Part of it is an ongoing post-summer slump at the moviehouse, and part of it is certainly the result of larger forces depressing ticket sales, namely, the failure to return patrons en masse to theaters following the COVID-19 lockdowns, and the stagnating effect of the 2023 SAG-WGA strikes on the production side.

But this weekend's alarming failure lies in large part at the feet of studios, which collectively offered up no major horror release timed to the first Halloween Friday in seven years. The last major studio horror premiere came three weeks ago, when Blumhouse and Universal released *The Black Phone 2*, which may, when all is said and done, outstrip the No. 1 spot won by the Colleen Hoover adaptation *Regretting You *this weekend. But Universal's psychological thriller *Hallow Road *and the independently released crime thriller *Violent Ends *barely registered in the final count.

Emma Stone in 'Bugonia,' which took in only $4.8 million at the domestic box office.

*Regretting You*, the second adaptation in what is likely to be a long, fruitful second career in shepherding novels to the screen for Hoover, barely eked out a win with an $8.1 million premiere gross. Ethan Hawke's *Black Phone *villain, the Grabber, remains in close pursuit, with the sequel scoring $8 million and earning the No. 2 spot in week 3.

The romantic drama from director Josh Boone (*The Fault in Our Stars*) and starring McKenna Grace, Allison Williams, Dave Franco, and Mason Thames doubled its luck at the global box office, nabbing $16.3 million. That's just half of its estimated $30 million production budget — enough of a gap to make up, but the total pales in comparison to the success of the first big-screen Hoover adaptation: *It Ends With Us*. A year after its release, the film may be better known for the ongoing legal war it launched between star Blake Lively and her costar-director Justin Baldoni, grossed an astonishing $80 million globally in its August 2024 opening weekend, by comparison.

*The Black Phone 2*, meanwhile, surpassed the $100 million mark at the global box office this weekend after an impressive $15.3 million week 3 take. The 2022 franchise starter tapped out globally at $161 million, a number its successor has a decent shot of reaching, if not exceeding.

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Elsewhere at the domestic box office, Sony's anime distribution banner Crunchyroll is keeping the hit parade going with enduring success for the feature-length TV sequel *Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc*. Crunchyroll already boasts one of the most profitable films of the year in *Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie - Infinity Castle*, a dark animated fantasy film that has grossed an astonishing $674.5 million at the global box office since its Sept. release.

*Chainsaw Man *sliced its way to No. 3 domestically with a $6 million take, and No. 1 globally with $18.5 million, bringing its gross to $139 million on a minuscule estimated budget of $4 million.

Yorgos Lanthimos' fifth collaboration with Emma Stone, the conspiracy dramedy *Bugonia*, remains remote from recouping its estimated $55 million budget with a domestic week 2 take of $4.8 million and $9.2 million abroad. The film now stands at $11 million globally, but its $4.4 million opening figure marks a career high for Lanthimos, whose previous highest grosser was *Poor Things*' $2.9 million in 2023.****

Next week promises titles that stand a chance at redeeming this week's dismal box office performance.

Facing off in the main event: Elle Fanning in the sci-fi sequel *Predator: Badlands*,* *and Sydney Sweeney in the sports biopic *Christy*. The former film represents the next chapter in the long-running franchise, which sees humans go to battle and largely lose against a race of extraterrestrial killing machines, and the latter tells the wild true story of boxing champ Christy Martin.

For the arthouse crowd, internationally renowned auteur Lynne Ramsay returns with serious star power with *Die My Love*, a surreal postpartum drama starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, and Nick Nolte, based on the novel by Argentine author Ariana Harwicz. Finally, Russell Crowe, Richard E. Grant, Michael Shannon, and Rami Malek join forces to dramatize the post-WWII Nazi trials held in the German metropole that gives the film its name, *Nuremberg*.

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