Despite the romance bona fides of director Josh Boone — he previously made the critical and commercial hit The Fault in Our Stars — his latest film is underperforming at the box office, having already tanked with the critics. Regretting You, which hails from author Colleen Hoover, isn’t getting the sort of attention that last year’s It Ends with Us did. Also based on one of Hoover’s bestsellers, It Ends with Us rode a wave of controversy and grossed over $350 million at the global box office. But Regretting You is shaping up to be to that film what Paper Towns was to The Fault in Our Stars around a decade ago.
Starring Mckenna Grace and Mason Thames, the movie is competing for the second spot on this weekend’s domestic box office charts against the holdover hit Black Phone 2 and fellow debutante Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Each of these films is expected to generate between $10 million and $12 million over the weekend, with Regretting You having grossed around $5 million on opening day. The number one movie at the domestic box office this weekend will be Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, the new anime import that’s poised to follow in the record-breaking footsteps of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle.
While It Ends with Us wasn’t a critical darling itself, Regretting You has opened to unambiguously poor reception. The movie is currently sitting at a 30% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. In her review, Collider’s Isabella Soares described the movie as “messy,” and wrote, “Although the cast does what they can with a script that never cuts deeper than the surface, their performances aren’t enough to give Regretting You the emotional resonance expected from a story like this.”
‘Regretting You’ Reportedly Cost $30 Million, Making it More Expensive than ‘It Ends with Us’
Produced for a reported $5 million more than It Ends with Us, Regretting You also stars Allison Williams, Dave Franco, Scott Eastwood, and Willa Fitzgerald. Incidentally, this is Fitzgerald’s second release this week, along with the Netflix thriller A House of Dynamite, directed by Kathryn Bigelow. While the romance genre has largely been relegated to streaming in recent years, a theatrical release tends to emerge on occasion. This year’s breakout romance movie was Materialists, starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans. The movie made over $100 million at the global box office, showing that there is hope yet for the genre. You can watch Regretting You in theaters, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Regretting You Official Poster
Release Date
October 24, 2025
Director
Josh Boone
Writers
Susan McMartin, Josh Boone, Colleen Hoover
Producers
Brunson Green, Robert Kulzer
