‘Other Mommy’ Scares Up $3.6 Million In Previews, Soft Start For ‘The Social Reckoning’ – Box Office — SkimNews
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- Other Mommy earned $3.6M from Thursday previews starting at 2 p.m. across 2,850 theaters, opening on 3,365 screens and tracking toward a mid-$20M weekend despite early reviews the source describes as "very far from kind"
- The Social Reckoning posted a soft $650K in previews from 2,368 locations starting at 4 p.m., underperforming last week's Digger ($1.2M) and tracking toward a mid-single-digit million opening
- The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to 2010's The Social Network, was produced for $30M after incentives, is 50% financed by Alcon Entertainment, and holds a 59% fresh Rotten Tomatoes score
- Other Mommy stars Jessica Chastain in dual roles as a real mother and a sinister entity that resembles her, directed by Rob Savage and produced by James Wan and Blumhouse Atomic Monster
- The week's top 5 was led by Verity (Amazon MGM) at $42.4M, followed by Resident Evil (Sony) at $17.8M and Heart of the Beast (Paramount) at $15.1M in its second weekend
- The Social Reckoning stars Mikey Madison as Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, Jeremy Allen White as Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, and Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg, replacing Jesse Eisenberg in the role
Why it matters: For Blumhouse and Universal, Other Mommy's $3.6M previews confirm horror's commercial resilience heading into a Halloween corridor with no new tentpoles, even as the film draws punishing reviews. For Sony and Alcon, The Social Reckoning's $650K previews against a $30M budget signal a thin theatrical runway for a prestige drama, though the 50/50 Alcon co-financing structure caps the studio's downside risk on a Sorkin follow-up that critics have received mildly favorably.
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