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'Other Mommy' Tops the Box Office with $27.5M; 'The Social Reckoning' Opens to $5.5M
Jessica Chastain’s horror film opened far ahead of Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up, which missed Sony’s $8 million forecast and drew a weaker audience response.
- On Sunday, Universal Pictures and Blumhouse's horror film Other Mommy topped the North American box office with a $27.5 million debut across 3,365 theaters, outperforming industry expectations.
- Industry analysts attribute the contrasting performance to horror's genre resilience, as Sony Pictures' drama The Social Reckoning struggled to find an audience, debuting at just $5.5 million in fifth place.
- Produced on a modest $18 million budget, Other Mommy outperformed the $30 million drama; the horror film received a D+ CinemaScore while director Aaron Sorkin's production polled a B-.
- The Social Reckoning fell significantly short of its 2010 predecessor The Social Network, which opened to over $22 million, revealing the difficulty of reviving corporate-focused dramas 16 years later.
- Weather disruptions contributed to overall box office totals falling to an estimated $88–90 million; as the year's total crossed $8 billion, studios increasingly prioritize low-cost horror over mid-budget dramas.
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The film, with a budget of 19 million, achieved this result despite unfavorable criticism from specialized media.
·Guayaquil, Ecuador
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The success of "Other Mommy" ("Mommy") confirms how much the "horror" is a good deal for Hollywood: low costs and ideas able to attract the public. The critic Gabriele Niola explains why this productive convenience leaves room for the original stories and calls more and more authors, while the genre conquers prestige in the festivals
·Italy
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