First Weekend Of November Belongs To Sony With ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ & ‘Here’ – Box Office Preview
deadline.comSony will own the first weekend of November at the box office, with the second frame of the Culver City lot’s Venom: The Last Dance down around 60%, or $20 million, for No.
1, followed by the studio’s release of Miramax’s adult drama Here. Here, which reps the Forrest Gump reteam of filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, scribe Eric Roth and stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, is expected to do around $7M with an eye on hopefully pulling older adults out again this weekend after they made a date for Focus Features’ Conclavelast weekend ($6.6M opening).
It remains to be seen whether Here slots in second place, giving Sony the frame’s 1-2 punch. The question is whether audiences will go along with watching a generations drama story about various families on the same property/house at a skewed-degree angle.
Hanks and Wright are technologically de-aged to their former 1980s/1990s selves, their storyline being the aorta of the story.
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