Weekend Box Office Results: ‘Novocaine’ With $8M+ Leads Lowest-Grossing Weekend Of 2025 To Date

And no matter what their exits are here, it’s hard to get people to go to the movies (even if it’s a novel movie) when there isn’t momentum to go. As such, the B Cinemascore, 84% positive, 58% definite recommend Paramount movie Novocaine is leading with an $8.7M opening after $3.9M Friday/previews and $2.89M Saturday. By technicality, and finding a good date on the calendar, it gives both Paramount and Jack Quaid (in arguably his first studio leading-man role) a No. 1 debut.

But, let’s come back to that point: Five new movies are on the marquee. There isn’t a pandemic or a winter storm to blame for the lack of traffic this weekend. Exhibition screams at studios for more product because they need it. But clearly, it’s a matter of quality over quantity. Better to have one big tentpole that a studio spent on then a handful of films they didn’t.

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