Jenna Ortega’s New Sci-Fi Movie Officially Removed From 1,000 Theaters in Debut Weekend

Published Oct 24, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT

Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he’ll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.

The domestic box office is delivering unexpectedly robust results this week, with DC’s Clayface poised to top the charts despite stiff competition from A24’s breakout sensation, You Can See Everything. The three-hour documentary film’s overperformance, not to mention the solid start that Laika’s Wildwood is eying, has caused collateral damage. A would-be awards contender was slated to debut nationwide this week, but poor reviews and spiraling tracking led Sony to opt for a platform release for the title instead. However, the movie in question is doomed if opening-day figures are anything to go by.

This is a rough turn of events for the film’s two stars — Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams — who are in desperate need of a box-office hit. Adams, a six-time Oscar nominee, hasn’t delivered a blockbuster as a lead in a decade. Her last big hit was the sci-fi darling Arrival, after which she appeared in Nocturnal Animals,*** Dear Evan Hansen***, and Vice. She also starred in the streaming movies Disenchanted, The Hillbilly Elegy, and ***The Woman in the Window. ***Ortega, on the other hand, is coming off the box-office underperformers Death of a Unicorn and Hurry Up Tomorrow.

Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.

You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.

The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.

You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.

Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.

The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.

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