The Social Reckoning opens with a $7 million projection — not a comeback, but a reckoning. Sony’s Aaron Sorkin drama, starring Jeremy Strong as a colder, sharper Zuckerberg, lands in theaters this weekend hoping to ride the October horror wave. It won’t be easy. The film’s predecessor, The Social Network, opened to $22 million in 2010 and went on to earn $224 million globally. This one? A modest $30 million budget, no Fincher, no Eisenberg, and a script that already feels behind the curve, according to Variety’s Guy Lodge. Critics aren’t calling it a disaster, just a shadow of what came before. Still, it’s not meant to win awards. It’s meant to fill seats. And for now, that’s enough. The real box office monster is Other Mommy. Jessica Chastain plays a mother stalked by her doppelgänger in a $18 million horror flick produced by James Wan and directed by Rob Savage. It’s targeting $20 million-plus from 3,200 screens. A strong debut for a genre film that doesn’t need to break records to survive. Meanwhile, Tom Cruise’s Digger limps into its second weekend with just $4 million, a 50% drop from its abysmal $8 million start. Global earnings: $20 million. Budget: over $160 million. The film was dead on arrival. So Warner Bros. Is pulling Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey back into Imax and 70mm theatres. Not because it’s suddenly popular. Because they’re out of options. Verity, last week’s champ, is expected to fall 50-60%, down to $13–16 million. That’s still respectable. But it’s not enough to save the month. October 2026 is shaping up to be a graveyard. The only thing rising? The noise. Audiences are louder than ever. Phones stay on. People talk through scenes. And somewhere, a tech bro is laughing at the irony. The movie about Facebook’s lies is being watched by people who still believe in algorithms. The horror film about a fake mom? They’re screaming at it like it’s real. Maybe that’s the point.