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Anime rides again atop the domestic box office, as \u201cChainsaw Man \u2014 The Movie: Reze Arc\u201d looks to open ahead of fellow new releases, the Bruce Springsteen biopic \u201cDeliver Me From Nowhere\u201d and the Colleen Hoover adaptation \u201cRegretting You.\u201d<\/p>\n
The R-rated \u201cChainsaw Man\u201d went brrr with $8.5 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,003 locations. The feature, which serves as a big-screen continuation of the manga adaptation\u2019s first season, is headed to an opening bow of $15.5 million. It\u2019s available in both subtitled and dubbed versions, and gets a boost from playing Imax and other premium large format auditoriums, which carry higher ticket prices.<\/p>\n
More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s another win for Sony\u2019s anime label Crunchyroll, which delivered its parent studio\u2019s biggest opening of the year in September with a historic $70.6 million start for \u201cDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2013 The Movie: Infinity Castle.\u201d \u201cChainsaw Man\u201d will only hit a fraction of that blockbuster figure, but that a new anime release is again leading charts, above two English language features from traditional Hollywood studios, speaks to how theatrical appetites have shifted over recent years.<\/p>\n Reviews are strong for \u201cChainsaw Man,\u201d but, more importantly, the audience loves it, as indicated by the \u201cA\u201d grade polled by moviegoer survey firm Cinema Score. Anime is almost always very front-loaded at the box office, with most fans rushing to opening weekend screenings. The bulk of the North American gross will likely come this weekend, but \u201cChainsaw Man\u201d is already sitting pretty for producer Mappa with $61 million in overseas grosses.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a tighter race for second place, with \u201cRegretting You\u201d narrowly leading ahead of the sophomore outing of \u201cBlack Phone 2.\u201d<\/p>\n Paramount\u2019s \u201cRegretting You\u201d kicked off with $5.2 million across Friday and previews, including special fan event screenings that featured a live cast Q&A. The Josh Boone-directed generations-spanning drama, produced by Constantin Films, is now projecting a $13 million opening.<\/p>\n That would come out ahead of tracking, which had forecast a debut between $8 million to $10 million. It\u2019s not the box office force that \u201cIt Ends With Us,\u201d the first Colleen Hoover feature adaptation, was in August 2024. That Blake Lively starrer launched to a $24 million opening day and a $50 million debut \u2014 against a slim $25 million production budget. \u201cRegretting You\u201d cost $30 million to produce.<\/p>\n Reviews have been comparatively rough for \u201cRegretting You\u201d too, while Cinema Score turned in a middling \u201cB\u201d grade. (Comp to the \u201cA-\u201d earned by \u201cIt Ends With Us.\u201d) The ensemble drama, which is rated PG-13 and stars Mckenna Grace, Mason Thames, Allison Williams, Dave Franco and more, is the first of a wave of Hoover adaptations on the way. \u201cVerity\u201d and \u201cReminders of Him\u201d remain on the slate from other studios.<\/p>\n Bowing in fourth on Friday, \u201cDeliver Me From Nowhere,\u201d which stars \u201cThe Bear\u201d lead Jeremy Allen White belting out as the Boss, earned $3.5 million across opening day, including preview screenings, from 3,460 locations. It\u2019s looking to land within its pre-weekend projections for a debut between $8 million and $12 million, though it\u2019ll have to show some fight to hit the eight-digits side. The PG-13-rated biopic is also sharing Imax and other PLFs with \u201cChainsaw Man.\u201d<\/p>\n The comparison for 20th Century Studios\u2019 \u201cSpringsteen\u201d is last year\u2019s Bob Dylan biopic \u201cA Complete Unknown\u201d \u2014 another period piece music drama, which hailed from fellow Disney label Searchlight Pictures. That Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet vehicle debuted with a slightly higher $11.6 million three-day, before riding Oscar buzz through the holidays and the first weeks of January to leg out to $75 million domestic and $140 million globally.<\/p>\n \u201cDeliver Me From Nowhere,\u201d directed by Scott Cooper, has similar awards aspirations, after holding film festival premieres attended by Springsteen himself at Telluride, New York and AFI Fest. But reviews have been lukewarm compared to \u201cA Complete Unknown\u201d and the film won\u2019t have the benefit of playing the holiday season. Audiences do like the movie, with Cinema Score turning in a \u201cB+\u201d grade. But at a considerable production budget of $55 million, \u201cDeliver Me From Nowhere\u201d will have to vie to stay relevant to moviegoers in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n Still with a chance for second, Universal\u2019s release of \u201cBlack Phone 2\u201d added $3.7 million on Friday and is headed to a second weekend of $12 million for a 56% drop from its opening. The horror sequel looks to push its domestic total to $48 million through Sunday, pacing a hair ahead of its 2022 predecessor ($47 million through 10 days). It already ranks as the highest-grossing North American release of the year for Blumhouse \u2014 a bounce-back after fielding a slate of theatrical nonstarters earlier in 2025, though \u201cBlack Phone 2\u201d is also the most expensive of the lot at a $30 million production budget.<\/p>\n Disney\u2019s \u201cTron: Ares\u201d looks to round out the top five, earning another $1.3 million on Friday to fall 48% from its daily total a week ago. Now in its third weekend of release, the sci-fi revival has dropped off fast in theaters and earned just $59 million in North America \u2014 a dismal result for an IP play with an $180 million production budget.<\/p>\n Also opening this weekend, Neon is bowing its horror mystery \u201cShelby Oaks\u201d in 1,823 locations. The original R-rated feature, which has so-so reviews, earned about $1.1 million across Friday and previews and seems headed for a seventh place bow.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anime rides again atop the domestic box office, as \u201cChainsaw Man \u2014 The Movie: Reze Arc\u201d looks to open ahead of fellow new releases, the Bruce Springsteen biopic \u201cDeliver Me From Nowhere\u201d and the Colleen Hoover adaptation \u201cRegretting You.\u201d The R-rated \u201cChainsaw Man\u201d went brrr with $8.5 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,003 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2115090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[28851,399749,400890,306437,365209,400889,399270],"class_list":["post-2115089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-chainsaw-man","tag-cinema-score","tag-colleen-hoover","tag-domestic-box-office","tag-preview-screenings","tag-regretting-you"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\u2018Chainsaw-Man-Revs-85-Million-Opening-Day-on-Top-\u2018Regretting.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115091,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115089\/revisions\/2115091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2115090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}