‘Black Phone 2,’ ‘Regretting You’ in Tight Box Office Race, But Weekend Grosses Sink to Near Year-Low $54 Million

This weekend was expected to be a new low for the 2025 box office, and it is close to that overall grosses sinking to just $54 million while Universal/Blumhouse’s “Black Phone 2″and Paramount/Constantin’s “Regretting You” are in a tight race for the No. 1 spot.

This weekend is narrowly above the overall weekend low for 2025, which was the $52.2 million on the weekend of March 14, when Paramount’s “Novocaine” opened at No. 1 with just $8.8 million.

With Halloween falling on a Friday and millions of people expected to be out trick-or-treating or partying rather than going to the movies, studios stayed away from releasing any major new films this weekend. That…