October 2025's total domestic box office haul only came to $428.1 million. Exempting 2020, this marks the lowest-grossing October since 1998, when "Antz" was the biggest release and tickets were significantly cheaper. It's a devastating development for a theatrical landscape still trying to find its footing in a post-COVID world. In addition, it is a shocking decline from past 2025 months like May and July, which each scored $967+ million monthly hauls, ensuring movie theaters across the country were lined up.

This stretch of the year shouldn't have been a ghost town. So what went wrong with October 2025's box office landscape? Turns out, a whole lot. Movie theaters and the month as a whole were rocked by a slew of external factors, including a barrage of would-be releases getting postpon

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