Featured image: Jessica Chastain. Photo: Gabriel Hutchinson / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Lowdown
Other Mommy is proof that a great trailer can sell tickets even when nobody likes the movie. A D+ CinemaScore usually means a steep second-weekend drop, so enjoy the win while it lasts. The Social Reckoning’s stumble is the more worrying sign for grown-up studio dramas.
Key Takeaways
- Other Mommy opened at No. 1 for October 9–11 with $27.8 million from 3,365 theaters (Box Office Mojo).
- The $19 million horror film from director Rob Savage earned a D+ CinemaScore and a 19% Rotten Tomatoes score (The Hollywood Reporter).
- Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning opened to about $5.5 million on a $30 million budget (The Hollywood Reporter).
- The 2026 domestic box office crossed $8 billion that weekend, up 19.6% on the same point in 2025 (The Hollywood Reporter).
The Story
Universal’s Other Mommy won the October 9–11 weekend, opening to $27.8 million from 3,365 theaters (Box Office Mojo). The studio had projected about $20 million for the $19 million production (The Hollywood Reporter).
The film stars Jessica Chastain as a sinister entity that appears in a young girl’s closet. Reviews and audience grades were rough: a D+ CinemaScore, which THR called the lowest grade for a film since Megalopolis in September 2024, and a 19% approval rating from critics. Universal credits the trailer, which first screened ahead of The Odyssey, with building buzz (The Hollywood Reporter).
Sony’s The Social Reckoning had a harder time. Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to The Social Network, starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong as an older Mark Zuckerberg, opened to about $5.5 million from 2,606 locations, below the studio’s $7 million expectation (The Hollywood Reporter).
Other Mommy did not hold. It fell 70.5% the following weekend to $8.2 million (Box Office Mojo). Still, it extended a strong year for original horror, and the 2026 domestic box office stood at $8.077 billion that Sunday (The Hollywood Reporter).
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- Box Office Mojo — Domestic 2026 Weekend 41 ↗
- The Hollywood Reporter — ‘Social Reckoning’ Goes Dark With $5.5M as ‘Other Mommy’ Delivers at Box Office ↗