By Jeremy Fuster

It’s been a rough October for the box office, as business ended up as sluggish as it was during the prolonged first quarter slump at the start of 2025 and totals for the month finished at $428 million, the lowest unadjusted October total outside of the pandemic since 1998.

This is far from the first time that the box office has seen monthly and holiday totals sink to lows not seen since the turn of the century. This year also brought the lowest March totals seen in 30 years, and Memorial Day weekend 2024 came in as the worst since 1995.