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Domestic box office revenue for October 2025 is expected to come in at roughly $425 million \u2014 the worst showing in 27 years and the worst of the post-pandemic era, according to Comscore<\/a>. This excludes October 2020, the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic, when revenue was a mere $55 million, powered by Christopher Nolan<\/a>\u2019s Tenet.<\/p>\n Otherwise, the last time October was this low was 1997, when combined ticket sales were $385.2 million, not adjusted for inflation. In 1998, revenue jumped to $455.6 million before crossing $600 million for the first time a year later in 1999. The new millennium brought steady gains, save for a few bumps in the road, before the pandemic hit.<\/p>\n Programming October \u2014 aside from Halloween-themed releases \u2014 was historically a chance for studios and indie distributors to take breathers following the summer blockbuster season and prepare for the year-end holidays.<\/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.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Halloween is shaping up to be scarier than expected for Hollywood and its exhibition partners, but not in a good way. Domestic box office revenue for October 2025 is expected to come in at roughly $425 million \u2014 the worst showing in 27 years and the worst of the post-pandemic era, according to Comscore. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2124924,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2124923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Box-Office-Massacre-October-Revenue-Falls-to-27-Year-Low-Excluding.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124923","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=2124923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124925,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124923\/revisions\/2124925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}