Venom’ Box Office: ‘Last Dance’ Opens to Solid $175M Globally Despite Sluggish $51M U.S. Bow

To expand the Mega Menu, click here. Subscribe to Heat Vision Home Movies Movie News "Venom" Box Office: The film "Last Dance" opened to a solid $175 million worldwide despite a slow $51 million opening in the United States. In North America, where comic book fatigue has returned, the series is ending with a whimper.

By Pamela McClintock Plus Icon October 27, 2024, 8:22 AM Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Tom Hardy portrays Venom in Columbia Pictures' Venom The Last Dance The Final Dance' Venom is the Sony Pictures logo text: The Last Dance didn't do well at the domestic box office, but it more than made up for it overseas and opened on par with the previous installment worldwide. It also entered without issue, No. 1 domestically and internationally.

Based on the popular comic book antihero, Sony's final film in the series opened to $51 million from 4,131 theaters in North America, far less than the $65 million, or $90 million, that was expected for the domestic release of Venom: Let the slaughter go on. The opposite was true in other countries, where Last Dance met or exceeded expectations when it opened, earning $124 million out of a $120 million budget for a global debut of $175 million. Last Dance slithered to $46 million in China, the best performance for a superhero film since 2019 and the best performance of the year so far for a Hollywood title. On Saturday, it appeared that the film might actually achieve $180 million worldwide, which is five percent better than Venom, which comes out in 2021. Let the slaughter go on. But that didn't happen, and even though final international grosses are tallied on Monday, numbers could change again. Regardless, Sony and its financing partners, which include TSG, claim to be in good shape.

There is no doubt that the World Series matchup between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees had an impact on box office in the United States, particularly in the West, but L.A. and New York remained Venom 3's top markets. People close to the movie are also concerned that early Halloween parties will cause people to become disoriented. No one on the Venom team is happy about the severity of the decline as comic book fatigue rears its ugly head once more. In North America, the first Venom opened to $80.2 million in 2018, which was a record for October. Although it is not unusual for threequels to decline, A year later, it was defeated by Joker ($96.2 million) for the crown. Sony scored a significant victory when Let There Be Carnage made $90 million at its opening in October 2021, helping theater owners who were still recovering from the pandemic. After a difficult October 2024, exhibitors were also hoping that The Last Dance would attract a lot of visitors—some even predicted that it would reach $70 million.

The most recent installment in the fan-favorite series received a franchise-worst B- CinemaScore from audiences and received a 37% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Tom Hardy reprises his role as Venom in Venom 3, directed by Kelly Marcel. Solid additionally co-composed the content with Marcel, his long-lasting inventive accomplice, who makes her first time at the helm with the element.

In its second outing, Paramount and Temple Hill's Smile 2 came in second with a domestic cume of $40.7 million after 10 days, down 59% to $9.4 million. The horror film did better in Saturday's estimates, highlighting the World Series' impact on the market as a whole.)

The winners of the awards did better with older audiences in mind.

The other new national opener this weekend is Oscar contender Conclave, directed by Edward Berger. The acclaimed thriller set in the Vatican about the election of a new pope opened to an estimated $6.5 million from 1,753 theaters, which is the highest wide opening ever for a specialty film competing for awards this year.

The film was funded and produced by FilmNation and Indian Paintbrush. Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini make up the entire cast. Domestically, the film is being distributed by Focus Features, which is owned by Universal. Surprisingly, over 44% of the audience was over the age of 55. The movie did better than expected in major Catholic markets like Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia, among others. Additionally, since the East Coast World Series games did not begin until 8 p.m., moviegoers had ample time to catch an afternoon or early evening screening.

According to Universal, DreamWorks Animation/Universal's The Wild Robot, which grossed an estimated $6.5 million from 3,427 theaters in its fifth weekend, and Conclave are virtually tied for third place.

The specialty film We Live in Time from A24, which continued to expand, rounded out the top five with an estimated $4.8 million from 2,924 theaters and a domestic cume of $11.8 million. The indie distributor claims that this is the best showing of 2024 for a platform release. The romantic drama starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh was directed by John Crowley.

In another area of the awards box office, Sean Baker and Neon's Anora expanded into 34 theaters to report the highest per-location average of the weekend—$25,504—and continued to impress in a significant way.