Anime ruled the box office again this past weekend as Chainsaw Man—The Movie: Reze Arc took the number one spot on the charts.
Chainsaw Man—The Movie: Reze Arc debuted with $18 million domestically, and it has a worldwide total of $108.7 million. That puts it between Pokémon 2000 and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 for domestic anime openings. Last month’s juggernaut Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Infinity Castle is the current opening-weekend champion for anime films, with its massive $70.6 million debut. Anime films have been growing bigger each year, and this year the average opening was around $20 million. Back around 2016, anime films debuted much less frequently and averaged only around $1.5 million, so they’ve exploded over the past decade. The movie got an A CinemaScore, so Chainsaw Man fans seemed to get exactly what they wanted from the film.
Regretting You debuted in second place with $13.6 million. The latest adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel is well below the opening of It Ends With Us, which debuted to over $50 million last summer, but it also had the behind-the-scenes drama that probably drew in curious audience members. Worldwide, Regretting You has $23.6 million in revenue. The movie got a B CinemaScore, which isn’t great, and we’ll have to see how much of a drop it has this coming weekend.
Black Phone 2 dropped to third place after taking the #1 spot last weekend, dropping 53% from last week. It made another $12.9 million, bringing its domestic total to $48.9 million and its worldwide total to $80.7 million. It’s tracking slightly ahead of the original Black Phone’s per-weekend performance, so if it can keep it up, it could end up over $90 million domestically and $160 million worldwide.
Springsteen: Deliver Us From Nowhere and Tron: Ares rounded out the top 5. The latest musical biopic is definitely on the low end of the genre with $8.8 million, and it got a B+ CinemaScore. That’s below A Complete Unknown from last year, which opened to just over $11 million during Christmas. Tron: Ares dropped another 50% and lost 1,060 theaters in its third weekend, making another $4.9 million. Its worldwide total is $123.7 million.
Shelby Oaks debuted in seventh place with $2.3 million in 1,823 theaters. It got a C+ CinemaScore, which doesn’t bode well for its second weekend, even though it should get a boost from Halloween. For Neon, that debut is between Infinity Pool and Spencer. Compared to other Neon horror films, it’s nowhere close to the debut of Longlegs, which opened to over $22 million last year, and it’s also about $4 million below Together‘s opening this summer.
Bugonia, the latest from Yorgos Lanthimos, had the best per-theater average of the weekend with $41,568 in each of the 17 theaters it played in.
