Another weekend at the top of the box office for “Venom: The Last Dance.” Estimates from the studio on Sunday show that the Tom Hardy movie added $26.1 million to ticket sales.
The weekend before the election, there weren’t many people going to the movies in North America. Big studio movies like “Venom 3,” “The Wild Robot,” and “Smile 2” ruled the charts, while “Here,” a reunion movie with Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Robert Zemeckis, got very bad reviews from audiences. Another movie called “Here” came out 30 years after “Forrest Gump.” It only made $5 million from 2,647 locations.
“Venom 3” only dropped 49% in its second weekend, which is a pretty small drop for a superhero movie that didn’t really start out like one.
The movie has made over $90 million in two weeks in the United States. The first two weeks alone brought in over $80 million. The picture is better on a global level now that it has passed the $300 million mark.
Universal and Illumination’s “The Wild Robot,” which came in second with $7.6 million, is still drawing people in even after six weeks and now that it’s available on video on demand.
It’s 11% more than last weekend. The animated comedic hit has made more than $269 million around the world and over $121 million in North America.
“The Wild Robot” has been a huge hit this fall, according to Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst for Comscore. “It’s amazing that the movie’s business has grown after six weeks.”
“Smile 2” came in third with $6.8 million, which helped bring its total worldwide to $109.7 million.
Eric Roth, who wrote the screenplay for “Forrest Gump,” turned a graphic novel called “Here” into a movie. The movie was distributed by Sony’s TriStar and was funded by Miramax.
With a camera that stays in one place, it takes viewers through the years in one living room. Some people didn’t agree: It gets a terrible 36% on Rotten Tomatoes as a whole.
Dergarabedian said, “It was a slow weekend anyway, but it didn’t hit home in the way that many people thought it would.” “There are many movies out there for the type of people that ‘Here’ was trying to reach.”
Focus Features’ papal thriller “Conclave,” which made $5.3 million, did better than “Here,” even though it played in almost 1,000 more theaters. It opened in 1,796 theaters last weekend and dropped only 20% from its first weekend.
It has made $15.2 million so far. “Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3” and “Singham Again,” two Indian movies, also made it into the top 10 in their first weeks.
The overall box office is still almost 12% behind what it was in 2023. But moviegoers will likely give the business a boost at the end of the year by seeing movies like “Wicked” and “Gladiator II.”
“In two weeks, there will be a lot more competition,” Dergarabedian said.
Four theaters in New York and Los Angeles opened Jesse Eisenberg’s comedic drama “A Real Pain” this weekend. The movie is about cousins who go on a Holocaust tour in Poland. About $240,000 was made, or $60,000 per screen.
That’s one of the three highest averages for a movie theater this year. This week, Searchlight Pictures is bringing the well-reviewed movie to more theaters across the country. On November 15, it will be shown in over 800 theaters.
Box office numbers don’t always show how many people are going to the movies, though. This weekend, a number of well-known movies in theaters did not make their full budgets for a variety of reasons. These include Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2,” Steve McQueen’s “Blitz,” and “Emilia Pérez,” which was a big hit at Cannes.
Netflix, which is in charge of “Emilia Pérez,” doesn’t report box office. The next Apple Original Film is “Blitz,” which is likely to be an awards contender and is now in theaters before it comes out on Apple TV+ on November 22.
And “Juror No. 2” is a Warner Bros. movie that got good reviews. Nicholas Hoult plays a juror in Eastwood’s movie who has to make a big moral choice about a murder case. Domestic sales of tickets were stopped. It was shown on 1,348 screens around the world, and the studio said it made $5 million there.
Even big studios sometimes hide box office numbers. Early this year, Disney didn’t say anything about the movie “Young Woman and the Sea” with Daisy Ridley. During the COVID-19 pandemic, results were most notably kept from the public.
What the distributors do is really up to them, Dergarabedian said. “Sometimes certain movies aren’t reported because there’s a chance that the quality of the movie will be mixed up with the box office number.”
On Monday, the final domestic numbers will be made public. Comscore says that the number of tickets sold at U.S. and Canadian theaters from Friday to Sunday was:
1. “Venom: The Last Dance,” $26.1 million.
2. “The Wild Robot,” $7.6 million.
3. “Smile 2,” $6.8 million.
4. “Conclave,” $5.3 million.
5. “Here,” $5 million.
6. “We Live In Time,” $3.5 million.
7. “Terrifier 3,” $3.4 million.
8. “Singham Again,” $2.1 million.
9. “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” $2.1 million.
10. “Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3,” $2.1 million.___This story has been corrected to reflect that the seventh film in the top 10 was “Terrifier 3,” not “Terrifier 2.”
