This weekend marks the end of an era and closes the story of Sony’s Venom. Since 2018, Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock has been a weirdo doing silly antics in ways that have annoyed some but delighted others, and Venom: The Last Dance It promised to be one last trip of some kind for the duo before another version of Eddie (or another character entirely) dons the alien skin suit. And the public has responded with a bit of “ehhhhhh…”
According to the hollywood reporterThe sticky third sequel is eyeing a domestic box office of $51 million at the time of this writing, well below the initial projections of $65 placed on its preview. For comparison, the first film started with $80.2 million in North America (a record for October 2018 films) and 2021’s. Let there be slaughter It started at $90 million, an impressive figure at the time due to the pandemic. The international audience has gotten to work; apparently he is doing very well outside of North America, and is expected to gross $124 million for a reported global total of $175 million.
last dance open to negative reviews and spotty word of mouth, and probably won’t help some people hosting their Halloween party. Still, it took first place over the weekend, happily beating Smile 2 up to second place; The horror sequel grossed another $10.3 million domestically and $12.5 million overseas, bringing its worldwide total to $83.7 million. And speaking of horror movie sequels, reports Variety Terrorist 3 It is set to earn another $4.5 million and finish the weekend with $44 million, triple the combined grosses of its predecessors.
Basically, Venom has the next weekend to himself, as far as big genre movies go. Things really kick off in week two with A24’s religious horror film Heretic and the post-apocalyptic movie Elevation on November 8. The following weekends we will see the action Christmas movie. one red (November 15), Gladiator II and Evil: Part I (November 22), and moana 2 (November 27).
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