Battle at the Box Office 10/28/24
The final chapter in the Venom trilogy seemed like a mixed bag in its opening weekend, even though it was the #1 movie on the box office charts.
Venom: The Last Dance opened to $51 million domestically, down around $40 million from the previous entry in the trilogy, Let There Be Carnage. Let There Be Carnage was the biggest opening of the trilogy, with just over $90 million domestically. This was Tom Hardy’s third biggest opening, behind Let There Be Carnage and Venom. Worldwide, the move may be saved by China and other international markets, as it made $124 million internationally, with $46 million coming from China. The movie has $175 million worldwide so far. The budget was around $110 million, and it probably needs around $300 million to break even. The Last Dance got a B- CinemaScore, so we’ll have to see how much it drops off this coming week. One bit of good news is that there isn’t massive competition at the box office until the middle of November with Red One and then Gladiator II over the Thanksgiving timeframe.
Smile 2 dropped 59% from last weekend’s opening and made another $9.5 million, totaling $40.8 million domestically and $83.7 million worldwide. It was going pretty much dead even with the first Smile, but now it’s $10 million below the same timeframe that that movie was in.
The Wild Robot was in third place with another $6.8 million. It now has $111.6 million domestically and $233.1 million worldwide.
Conclave and We Live in Time rounded out the top 5. Conclave debuted with $6.6 million domestically, while We Live in Time increased from last weekend by 15% as it went into 1,979 more theaters and took in another $4.8 million. It now has $11.7 million domestically for three weeks out.
Terrifier 3 slipped out of the top 5, falling to sixth place with $4.7 million, $44.5 million domestically, and $50.7 million worldwide. It is now officially the highest-grossing Unrated film of all time.
The Per Theater average went again to Anora, which made $26,730 in each of its 34 theaters, as it expanded to an additional 28 in its second weekend.
