By Ben Miller
With Black Panther: Wakanda Forever inching closer to release, studios aren't about to release anything big that the Marvel behemoth could engulf. With only two new releases for the Halloween weekend and two additional wide expansions, Black Adam and Ticket to Paradise both repeated their top spots from last week's chart.
| Weekend Box Office (actuals) October 28th-30th 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended links if we've written about it |
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| WIDE (OVER 800 SCREENS) | LIMITED / PLATFORM |
 TICKET TO PARADISE |
 TRIANGLE OF SADNESS |
| 1 BLACK ADAM $27.4 (cum. $110.9) | 1 🔺 ★ TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (sweden/uk) $548k (cum. $2.2) 610 screens |
| 2 TICKET TO PARADISE $9.8 (cum. $33.5) | 2 🔺 ★ THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN $535k (cum. $785k) 58 screens |
| 3 🔺 PREY FOR THE DEVIL $7.1 *NEW* | 3 🔺★ DECISION TO LEAVE (south korea) $258k (cum. $814k) 132 screens |
| 4 SMILE $5.4 (cum. $92.7) | 4 🔺 ★ AFTERSUN $75k (cum. $166k) 17 screens |
| 5 HALLOWEEN ENDS $4 (cum. $60.5) | 5 🔺 ARMAGEDDON TIME $70k *NEW* 6 screens |
| 6 🔺★ TILL $2.7418 (cum. $3.5) |
6 PAUL'S PROMISE $20k (cum. $232k) 122 screens |
 TILL |
 ARMAGEDDON TIME |
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7 LYLE LYLE CROCODILE $2.7 (cum. $32.4) |
7 ★ MOONAGE DAYDREAM (doc) $19k (cum. $4.2) 52 screens |
| 8 TERRIFIER 2 $1.9 (cum. 7.7) |
8 🔺★ PLEASE BABY PLEASE $10k *NEW* 4 screens |
| 9 ★ THE WOMAN KING $1.1 (cum. $64.6) | 9 CAT DADDIES (doc) $8k (cum. $37k) |
| 10 🔺 ★ TÁR $1 (cum. $2.5) | 10 ALL THAT BREATHES $7k (cum. $18k) 2 screens |
| 11 🔺 ★ CALL JANE $243 *NEW* | 11 BOBLO BOATS: A DETROIT FERRY TALE $5k (cum. $84k) 1 screen |
| 12 THE BAD GUYS $222k (cum. $96.9) | 12 🔺 THE RUNNER (1984, re-release) $4k *new* 1 SCREEN |
The only new releases were Lionsgate's exorcism thriller Prey for the Devil, which only managed third place, and Phyllis Nagy's abortion drama Call Jane, which made less than $250k. Three other horror films landed in the top 10. Smile is turning into one of the biggest box office success of the year with a $92 million haul domestic and close to $200 million internationally on just a $17 million budget.
Oscar hopefuls Till and TÁR expanded wide to decent numbers, while gore-fest Terrifer 2 continues its very profitable box office against its teeny-tiny budget. Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin only added 54 new theaters but still earned nearly $10k per screen. That average was second for the week behind James Grey's Armageddon Time, which managed $12k on just six screens (the latter expands wide next week). Despite Triangle of Sadness nearly doubling its screen count it was off 3% from last week. Blame the very crowded market (suddenly) for awards hopefuls aimed at adult audiences.
What did you watch this weekend? It was a weekend of comfort watching with the enjoyable double-feature of Ticket to Paradise and Confess, Fletch. I also knocked out an Oscar blindspot with the Michael Caine/Brendan Fraser 2002 drama The Quiet American.