Venom: The Last Dance easily laid claim to the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office for the second weekend in a row, while Here barely managed to crack the Top 5. Eddie Brock’s (Tom Hardy) final go-round as the Spider-Man anti-hero in Sony’s symbiote trilogy dropped 49% between its first and second weekends of release, but the film managed to make an estimated $26.1 million (per The Numbers). Meanwhile, the unofficial Forrest Gump reunion, Here, that reteamed director Robert Zemeckis with stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, fell flat on its single-framed face at No. 5 with only $5 million.
Here carried a fairly heavy production budget of $45 million into the weekend, but the Hanks and Wright-led drama barely made back any of its production cost — and that doesn’t include how much TriStar Pictures spent on marketing and advertising. Meanwhile, Venom: The Last Dance didn’t have any problem ascending to No. 1 again because there simply wasn’t enough noise made by any of this week’s newcomers to challenge director Kelly Marcel’s movie.
In fact, the only other new titles to crack the Top 10 were the horror-comedy Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 at No. 8 ($2.23 million) and director Rohit Shetty’s Singham Again, which is the latest entry in the Copverse franchise. The Indian action flick checked in at No. 9 with $2.19 million, while the remainder of the chart toppers was populated by movies released earlier in the fall.
Venom Tangos All Over the Competition
Last week’s top dog at the box office was in no real way challenged for the No. 1 spot over the weekend, and Venom: The Last Dance was the only film that managed to post double figures during the first weekend of November. Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 might as well have been sequestered, seeing as how it didn’t even crack the chart in limited release. But Deadline reported what might end up being Eastwood’s swan song brought in somewhere between $265,000 and $275,000 in 35 theaters. And another newcomer, the Liam Neeson-led Absolution, finished the weekend at No. 12 with only $1.4 million.
The Wild Robot lays claim to the No. 2 spot behind The Last Dance as the animated adventure logs another $7.6 million. Smile 2 continues to scare up business over the weekend, following directly on the heels of Halloween at No. 3 with $6.8 million, while Conclave beat out the Hanks and Wright-led Here for the No. 4 slot with $5.3 million. Meanwhile, Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh’s rom-dram just missed out on making the top-half of the chart with $3.5 million at No. 6.
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The re-release of Godzilla Minus One, which featured special bonus footage, honored the King of the Monsters’ 70th anniversary at No. 14 with $510,000. And this week’s best per-theater average goes to director and star Jesse Eisenberg’s new film, A Real Pain. The dramedy opened in four venues for an average of $60,000 per cinema.
With the exception of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, it has been a fall movie season that has yet to produce any meaningful blockbusters. However, business should pick up toward the end of the month when highly anticipated titles like Wicked, Gladiator II and Moana 2 begin their respective reigns. Up next, Hugh Grant’s conniving Mr. Reed terrorizes moviegoers as Heretic opens in theaters on Nov. 8.
Venom 3 is the third and final installment in Sony’s symbiote trilogy starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock. It follows the events of Let There Be Carnage, where the anti-hero fought serial killer Cletus Kasady, and Spider-Man: No Way Home, where Brock was briefly transported to the MCU through the multiverse.
- Release Date
- October 25, 2024
- Runtime
- 110 Mins
- Studio(s)
- Columbia Pictures , Marvel Entertainment , Pascal Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Sony
- prequel(s)
- Venom , Venom: Let There Be Carnage
- Character(s)
- Eddie Brock / Venom , Mrs. Chen , Patrick Mulligan , Bartender