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Venom: Knull and Void: Weekend Box Office Results (Oct. 25-27)
Venom is back for the third, and ostensibly, last time. Hence, The Last Dance. And if it is to be the last time Tom Hardy's Lethal Protector graces the silver screen, at least it goes out on top with a $51M opening. It's actually the worst (by far) opening in the Venom franchise, after Let There be Carnage's $90M and Venom's $80.2M. Both of the previous Venom flicks went on to make the identical $213.5M.That means that the returns have been diminishing when you consider Let There be Carnage's great start. And with a B- CinemaScore compared to B+ of the first two Venom's, it's not looking too good for longevity at the domestic box office.
Fortunately, it wasn't a complete disaster. The Last Dance's $51M is not the $37.6M that Joker: Folie à Deux produced.And it did make an astronomical $124M overseas for a total global opening of $175M. It just underperformed its projections, domestically, which were supposed to be $65M.
If you ever read the deadline box office articles, you can see thein real time. It happened with Joker 2 where the projections were $50M after the first Joker debuted with $96.2M opening and Anthony D'Alessandro was like "who wouldn't want a $50M opening in today's climate?"
With Venom, he was blaming the World Series and Call of Duty.
Why you feel the need to place blame at all? I mean, $50M is $50M. And who wouldn't be happy with that opening in today's movie climate?
The World Series
Baseball
In 2024. Stifling the box office.
Smile 2 is #2 with $9.4M which was a 59.2% drop. The first Smile damn near doubled the sequel up with an $18.5M second weekend, which was only an 18% decrease from its opening. Its $40.7M running total after 2 weeks is 19.9% behind Smile's $50.8M. Franchise commercial disappointment aside, Smile 2 is the #5 horror movie of the year and is looking to pass Terrifier 3's $44.5M.
With $6.5M, The Wild Robot took 3rd. Its $111.3M total just passed IF's $111.1M to become the 14th highest grossing movie this year. 13th place is around the corner with Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire making $113.3M.
4th place belongs to a new entry: Conclave, with $6.5M. What is Conclave? From Focus Features:
Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church's most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence uncovers a trail of deep secrets left in the dead Pope's wake--secrets which could shake the foundations of the Church.
Last Ralph Fiennes joint I saw was The Menu. Might have to peep this.
Fifth place once again belongs to We Live in Time, this time with $4.8M. That was a +15% burst over last week, which sounds great, and it is, on the surface. However, it had to expand by 1,983 theaters in order to get there. It's per theater average was actually only $1.6K vs. last week's $4.2K average. Still, it's always better to be up than down, even if the numbers is a lil funny style.
Notables
Joker: Folie à Deux fell from Top 10 (6th) to not mentioned at all (13th) with only $600KIts total is $57.8M.
The Nightmare Before Christmas, which I was watching on Freeform earlier, made another $507K and is up to $5.8M.
The other Disney re-release, Hocus Pocus, made $363K and has made $1.5M in its 2 weeks.
Top Ten
1 - Venom: The Last Dance $51,000,000 - 4,131 $51,000,000 1 Sony 2 1 Smile 2 $9,400,000 -59.2% 3,624 $40,714,005 2 Paramount 3 2 The Wild Robot $6,500,000 -35.6% 3,427 $111,368,270 5 Universal 4 - Conclave $6,500,000 - 1,753 $6,500,000 1 Focus Features 5 5 We Live in Time $4,848,132 +15% 2,968 $11,760,401 3 A24 6 3 Terrifier 3 $4,770,505 -48.7% 2,720 $44,527,900 3 Cineverse 7 4 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice $3,231,000 -35.4% 2,874 $288,744,942 8 Warner Bros. 8 18 Anora $867,142 +57.5% 34 $1,619,582 2 Neon 9 7 Piece by Piece $721,000 -64.8% 1,298 $8,883,890 3 Focus Features 10 8 Transformers One $720,000 -63.8% 1,422 $57,946,270 6 Paramount
Think I’m the only person who hated the nightmare before christmas
My grandma would throw it on ALL the time
But hey, it's the 4th highest grossing horror movie this year, ahead of Terrifier 3's $53.3M. 
On the First Day of Christmas my Red One Gave to Me... 34M Bottles Full of Rock's Pee