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Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of Oct. 11-13, 2025.

1. Tron: Ares

Weekend gross: $33.5M
Total domestic gross: $33.5M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA

I didn’t make it to the theater this weekend to catch Tron: Ares (weirdly, I was actually in Los Angeles on Thursday when the movie had its Thursday debut at the El Capitan Theatre), but it looks like I wasn’t the only one to miss this one its opening weekend.

Tron: Ares debuted with $33.5 million. That’s not a good number when compared to the $44 million that Tron: Legacy opened with a decade and a half ago. And it’s definitely not a good number when you ask, as Matt Goldberg did in his latest installment of Commentary Track, “why would Disney pay $180 million for this?”

There was a built-in audience of Tron: Legacy fans hoping for a sequel that would continue the story that began with Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde. It doesn’t seem like there was an audience eager to watch Jared Leto in a Tron movie, though.

2. Roofman

Weekend gross: $8M
Total domestic gross: $8M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA

Despite Tron: Ares’ disappointing debut, there’s a pretty good drop off between it and Roofman, the weekend’s No. 2 movie. The $8 million grossed thanks to people who wanted to see Channing Tatum play an escaped convict living in a Toys R Us actually did give Derek Cianfrance the biggest opening weekend of his directorial career.

It does help that Roofman is the first of Cianfrance’s films to get a wide release its opening weekend, playing across 3,362 theaters compared to The Light Between Oceans 1,500 theaters and The Place Beyond the Pines’ 1,584 theaters.