Welcome to the Weekend POURcast, your boozy guide to the box office.
Every Friday here on the Weekend POURcast, we serve up what’s new in theaters and on streaming, movies only, paired with a curated cocktail suggestion to match the weekend.
Last weekend officially brought us back to the bar, and apparently October heard us because things are getting weird quickly. We have Jessica Chastain stepping into her first horror role, dealing with an evil maternal doppelgänger, Aaron Sorkin returning to the world of Facebook, Mahershala Ali playing a grieving hitman trying to hold his family together, and Verity at the top trying to prove that its opening weekend was more than just Colleen Hoover fans showing up on schedule.
And that is before we even get to streaming, where Steven Spielberg, Ben Affleck, and John Cena are all showing up at home on the same weekend.
October has fully arrived.
Last Weekend in Review
We discussed the weekend in our Monday Morning Box Office Hangover Report, and Verity did exactly what it needed to do last weekend, opening at No. 1 with $32 million and proving once again that the Colleen Hoover audience is very real. Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson gave the movie plenty of star power, but the bigger story was that the film landed almost exactly where the stronger forecasts had it.
Behind it, Resident Evil continued its successful run with $12.6 million in its third weekend, bringing its domestic total past $125 million. Heart of the Beast held third with $10.9 million, while the much more expensive Digger stumbled badly with just $8 million in its debut. Primetime finished almost dead even with it, also at roughly $8 million.
That Digger number is brutal. A Tom Cruise movie directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu opening to $8 million would have sounded almost impossible a few years ago, but divisive reviews and a difficult commercial pitch appear to have done their damage. Meanwhile, Verity walked away with the weekend by giving audiences something simple to understand: attractive people, terrible secrets, a creepy house, and Anne Hathaway looking like she knows exactly what everyone did.
Sometimes clarity wins.
New in Theaters This Weekend
Other Mommy
This looks like the movie with the best shot at taking down Verity.
Jessica Chastain stars in the supernatural horror thriller as the sinister figure haunting an eight-year-old girl, and the entire campaign has leaned into the unnerving, slightly unhinged energy of the premise. Rob Savage directs, which also puts the movie firmly in the hands of someone who understands how to build genre tension.
Current tracking puts Other Mommy in the high teens to low twenties, which should be enough to make it the favorite for No. 1. Horror has been one of the most reliable genres at the box office all year, and arriving in the second weekend of October certainly does not hurt.
The only real warning sign is that reviews and early reactions have been held unusually close to release. That can mean absolutely nothing, or it can mean everything. We will know soon enough.
The Social Reckoning
Aaron Sorkin is going back to Facebook. Sort of.
The Social Reckoning is a follow-up to The Social Network, but without David Fincher directing and without Jesse Eisenberg returning as Mark Zuckerberg. Instead, Sorkin directs his own script, with Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Betty Gilpin, and Jeremy Strong leading the cast.
The movie reportedly centers on a Facebook whistleblower complaint rather than simply trying to recreate the rise-of-Facebook story from the original film, which is probably the smartest way to approach the material. The challenge is convincing audiences that they actually want another Facebook movie sixteen years later.
Current tracking has it in the $6 million to $10 million range, which feels reasonable. This is much more likely to become an awards-season conversation than a box office monster.
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
This one deserves attention.
Mahershala Ali stars as Latif, a devout Muslim hitman trying to balance violence, faith, grief, and fatherhood after the death of his wife. Bassam Tariq writes and directs, and the film expands wide this weekend after beginning in just a handful of theaters.
The early response has been excellent. The movie is sitting in the mid-90s with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and the premise alone makes it one of the most distinctive releases of the weekend.
It may not have the commercial muscle of Other Mommy, but this feels like one of those movies that could quietly become the thing everyone is talking about a week from now.
Angel and the Badman
Angel Studios is also bringing Angel and the Badman to theaters nationwide this weekend. The western reimagines the classic John Wayne story with Zachary Levi as outlaw Quirt Evans, Tommy Lee Jones and Neal McDonough rounding out the cast, and Julio Quintana directing. It is not likely to challenge Other Mommy for the top of the chart, but Angel has built a dependable audience for faith-forward and values-driven theatrical releases, and advance ticket interest suggests this one could carve out a respectable lane of its own.
Also Arriving in Theaters
There is a decent collection of smaller releases and specialty titles arriving around the same time. A24 opens Chris Rock’s Misty Green in limited release, with Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, and Rosalind Eleazar in the cast. Fjord, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, also opens limited, along with Tenzing, California Schemin’, Winter of the Crow, and the horror anthology V/H/S/Mixtape.
There is also some repertory programming worth noting. 9 to 5 returns to theaters, and Pan’s Labyrinth is getting a 20th anniversary engagement. If you are going to spend October revisiting something on a big screen, Guillermo del Toro’s nightmare fairy tale is not exactly a bad place to start.
Box Office Forecast: October 9th-11th, 2026
1. Other Mommy
$18M to $23M
This feels like the weekend’s best bet for No. 1. Jessica Chastain, original horror, October, and an easy-to-sell supernatural hook give it a strong lane.
2. Verity
$15M to $20M
The wild card is how hard Verity falls in weekend two. Word of mouth is mixed, but the opening showed that the audience is there. A hold near the upper end of this range could even keep it at No. 1 if Other Mommy comes in soft.
3. Resident Evil
$7M to $10M
Three weekends in, Resident Evil is still healthy, and October is about the best possible month for it to keep collecting money. Horror audiences have repeatedly shown this year that they are willing to support more than one genre movie at the same time.
4. The Social Reckoning
$6M to $10M
This could move up if reviews and the Sorkin name pull in older audiences, but the commercial ceiling feels limited. The original Social Network has become a modern classic, but that does not automatically mean audiences were waiting for a sequel.
5. Heart of the Beast
$5M to $8M
Brad Pitt’s survival drama should continue to hang around. It has already shown decent stability, and the older audience interested in this movie is not necessarily being stolen by supernatural horror.
October Horror Check
If last weekend was October warming up, this weekend is where horror season starts getting serious.
Other Mommy arrives as the most obvious new genre play, but Resident Evil is still performing, V/H/S/Mixtape is arriving for the harder-core horror crowd, and several of the streaming options this weekend lean directly into Halloween territory.
What has been striking about 2026 is that horror has not needed one giant franchise to carry the genre. Audiences have shown up for recognizable IP, original ideas, low-budget weirdness, psychological dread, and movies that simply looked interesting enough to take a chance on.
That is good news for Other Mommy. It does not need to be the next giant horror phenomenon. It just needs to be good enough, creepy enough, and fun enough to make people tell their friends, “You have to see what Jessica Chastain is doing in this thing.”
Sometimes that is all horror needs.
New Movies on Streaming This Weekend
This may actually be the strongest part of the weekend.
Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day arrives exclusively on Peacock on Friday after a theatrical run that earned more than $240 million worldwide. If you missed Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and a whole lot of extraterrestrial anxiety in theaters, this is the weekend to catch up. Netflix is bringing Animals, directed by and starring Ben Affleck alongside Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, and Steven Yeun. The crime thriller follows a political candidate whose life detonates when his son is kidnapped, which sounds like exactly the kind of movie Netflix likes dropping into everybody’s living room on a Friday night.
Apple TV has Matchbox: The Movie, starring John Cena, Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris, and Arturo Castro. Inspired by the Mattel toys, it turns the brand into a globe-trotting action adventure about childhood friends getting dragged into an international mission.
And if you still need more horror, Hokum arrives on Hulu Saturday, October 10. Between theatrical horror and streaming horror, nobody should have any trouble finding something unsettling to watch this weekend.
Weekend Drink Pairing: The Vowbreaker
This weekend’s drink pairing is The Vowbreaker.
We have already spent enough time in locked rooms and secret vaults recently, so this week deserves something darker and a little more dangerous. The Vowbreaker feels right for a weekend built around corrupted relationships, broken trust, sinister doubles, whistleblowers, grieving assassins, and whatever Jessica Chastain is doing as an evil alternate mother.
It also fits the season. October drinks should feel a little mysterious without automatically turning into fluorescent green Halloween gimmicks. The Vowbreaker has enough menace in the name to belong here while still feeling like something an adult would actually order.
Pair it with Other Mommy, then maybe call your actual mother afterward just to make sure everything is fine.
Final Pour
This is a much more interesting weekend than the raw numbers suggest.
Other Mommy and Verity may end up in a surprisingly close fight for No. 1. Resident Evil continues to prove that horror has legs this fall. The Social Reckoning is testing whether anybody still wants to spend two hours thinking about Facebook, while Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother looks like the smaller movie with the best chance to become the weekend’s critical discovery.
Then you get home and Spielberg, Affleck, Cena, and another horror movie are waiting for you on streaming.
October apparently has no interest in easing us into anything.
Neither do we. 🍸🍿
