Halloween was light on the box office treats.

Without any new releases, as well as the misfortune of the spooky holiday landing on Friday (meaning families were trick-or-treating, not visiting their local movie theater), ticket sales nearly ground to a halt. Revenues between Friday and Sunday have amounted to just $49 million, marking the worst weekend of the entire year, according to Comscore.

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 with $385 million, not adjusted for inflation. This ignominious record doesn’t include 2020 when theaters hadn’t rebounded from the pandemic.

Although Halloween is traditionally a moribund period at the box office, October is u

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