We came from months with great premieres, but October has been a massacre. Cinemas suffer with very worrying figures and notable box office failures

The end of the month has confirmed what many film analysts feared and that is that box office receipts have plummeted in the United States. After months of big releases like Superman, F1: The Movie, Weapons or 28 Years Later, October has been a massacre for cinema and has fallen with historic figures that have not been seen for more than 20 years. A situation that also has confirmed several failures like The Smashing Machine and the highly anticipated Tron: Ares.

On the other side of the scale is the month of October 2018 that reached 832.8 million dollars and it coincided with premieres such as Venom, the new version of A Star is Born with Lady Gaga or the Halloween reboot. Not even The Party of the Living Dead has managed to save the box office this year.

Tron: Ares and The Smashing Machine hit the box office

The lack of important releases has been accompanied by some sound failures that They have had a very poor performance. One of them is Tron: Ares, the new installment of the Disney saga that It only has a little more than 63.4 million dollars in the United States. These are very bad results for a long-awaited film that has been promoted so much.

The drama hasn’t helped either. The Smashing Machine de Dwayne Johnson. For the first time, the actor gets serious in a biopic about MMA fighter Mark Kerr who battled his addictions. The film has only raised $11.4 million since its release and not much better worldwide.