‘Other Mommy’ Cooks At No. 1, ‘Social Reckoning’ Ghosted; ‘Verity’, ‘Resident Evil’ Nice Holds & ‘The Odyssey’ Back In Top 10 – Box Office Update — SkimNews
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- Universal's 'Other Mommy' tops the box office in its debut with a projected $28M from 3,365 screens, fueled by $3.6M Thursday previews, even as it scored a D+ CinemaScore and 18% with Rotten Tomatoes critics.
- 'The Social Reckoning' opens at #5 with a projected $6M from 2,606 locations after soft $650K previews — Aaron Sorkin's Facebook-whistleblower drama with Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White posted a 54% RT critics score and B- CinemaScore.
- Amazon MGM's 'Verity' holds #2 in week 2 with $14.2M (-56%), pushing the Anne Hathaway/Dakota Johnson Colleen Hoover adaptation's cume to $56.6M — a similar week-two drop as Hoover's earlier 'Reminders of Him.'
- Sony's 'Resident Evil' adds $8.2M in week 4 (-35%) at 3,085 locations for a domestic cume of $138.4M, with Zach Cregger's franchise reinvention continuing its sturdy hold.
- Paramount's 'Heart of the Beast' earns $6.9M in week 3 (-37%) for a $49.5M cume, with strong staying power per its A- CinemaScore and 94% RT audience score on the Brad Pitt-led survival thriller.
- Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' jumps nearly 60% in week 18 after reclaiming 70mm IMAX prints, grossing $2M at 560 locations for a staggering $622M cume far past its summer window.
Why it matters: 'Other Mommy' leading despite toxic reviews confirms horror's draw around Halloween, while Sorkin's $30M-budgeted Facebook drama opening at $6M underscores how tough it is to sell audiences on a 2021 whistleblower story when AI dominates the tech-conversation cycle — The Social Network legged from $22M to $97M in 2010 under very different cultural conditions.
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