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title: "Jessica Chastain’s Other Mommy turns a $19 million budget into $111.5 million despite a D+ CinemaScore"
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published: 2026-11-08T08:17:00+00:00
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# Jessica Chastain’s Other Mommy turns a $19 million budget into $111.5 million despite a D+ CinemaScore

The Blumhouse horror film opened at No. 1 and was panned by critics, yet it has earned 5.9 times its budget ahead of its November 10 home release.

Jessica Chastain’s horror film *Other Mommy* has turned a $19 million production budget into $111.5 million at the worldwide box office, a hit by any studio math, even though critics panned it and audiences polled by CinemaScore gave it a D+.

Box-office records list the Universal release at $57.2 million in the US and Canada and $54.3 million from other markets through Friday, November 6. That is 5.9 times its budget, and the film is now days away from its home release.

## A No. 1 opening, then a steep slide

Directed by Rob Savage and produced by James Wan through Blumhouse and Atomic Monster, *Other Mommy* opened on October 9 at No. 1 with $27.8 million from 3,365 theaters. Chastain plays Ursula, a mother whose seven-year-old daughter is stalked by an entity that wears her face. She plays the entity too.

Here is how its North American weekends played out:

- **Weekend 1 (Oct. 9-11):** $27.8 million, No. 1

- **Weekend 2 (Oct. 16-18):** $8.2 million, No. 3, down 70%

- **Weekend 3 (Oct. 23-25):** $3.9 million, No. 6, down 52%

- **Weekend 4 (Oct. 30-Nov. 1):** $2.6 million, No. 7, down 34%

The opening weekend alone delivered 48.6% of the film’s domestic total. Halloween gave it one last bump: it took $1.1 million on Saturday, October 31, more than double what it earned on most weekdays that week.

## Critics hated it; it still worked

The reviews were brutal. On Rotten Tomatoes, only 19% of 100 critics’ reviews are positive, and Metacritic scores it 39 out of 100. Rotten Tomatoes’ critics consensus credits “a valiant turn from Jessica Chastain” but calls the film “too silly” for its jump scares to land. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore graded it D+ on a scale from A+ to F.

That gap is the horror business in miniature. A cheap film with a recognizable star and a strong first weekend can pay for itself before word of mouth catches up, and overseas grosses add a second wave. The United Kingdom led international markets with $7.1 million, ahead of Italy at $4.6 million and Mexico at $4.4 million.

## Where Other Mommy came from

The film adapts Josh Malerman’s 2024 novel *Incidents Around the House*. It shot in Dublin, Ireland, between May and July 2025 under the original book title before being renamed, and it was first dated for May 8, 2026, then moved to October.

## What comes next

Universal Home Entertainment’s home release is listed for Tuesday, November 10, 2026, while the film keeps playing in about 1,440 North American theaters. The R-rated, 93-minute film is on course to pass $112 million worldwide before it leaves cinemas.

## Further reading

- [Other Mommy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Mommy)

- [Jessica Chastain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Chastain)

*Image: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons*

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