‘Venom: The Last Dance’ Hopes To Boogie To $150 Million Global Opening – Box Office Preview
deadline.comWith the last couple of October weekends stateside being off from the strike-laden marketplace a year ago, here’s hoping that superhero sequelitis and moviegoers’ erratic attitudes toward prestige fare don’t push the theatrical marketplace down further.
Sony this weekend has its Marvel title Venom: The Last Dance, which is bound to see its lowest opening in the trilogy (stateside that is) after the previous installment, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, opened to a franchise high of $90 million in October 2021, fueled by fanboys’ yearning to return to cinemas after Covid.
The original Venom once owned the October opening record in 2018 at $80.2M before 2019’s The Joker unseated it with $96.2M. U.S.-Canada presales and tracking indicate an opening for Venom 3 that’s just under that of 2022’s Black Adam ($67M) at $65M.
Overseas is looking at $85M — possibly higher — for an all-in global weekend of $150M. The threequel cost $120M before P&A.
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