HOLLYWOOD – Movie ticket sales have nearly ground to a halt without any new releases.

“The cavalry cannot get here soon enough,” says Comscore’s head of marketplace trends, Paul Dergarabedian. “The industry is in dire need of a boost [after] this scary-slow World Series-impacted, Halloween-festivity-laden weekend. It’s emblematic of what has been a quiet post-summer moviegoing corridor.”

Another scary stat: This closes out the lowest-grossing October in 27 years with domestic earnings stalling at an abysmal $425 million, the poorest haul since October 1997. This ignominious record doesn’t include 2020, when theaters hadn’t rebounded from the pandemic.

Story Date: November 9, 2025