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Box office mojo venom12/19/2023 ![]() ![]() I wouldn’t be surprised if Venom: Let There Be Carnage has a higher grade, given its ending. They polled opening night moviegoers for the first movie, which resulted in a B+ grade. Strangely, Cinemascore has not posted a grade for Venom 2. The user score for both movies is 6.3 on Metacritic, and the IMDb user rating for both movies is 6.7. As of this writing, the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is 81% for Venom and 85% for Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Non-professional moviegoers like the sequel even more. That seemed rather promising at the time, especially given some reviewers touted Venom 2 as better than Venom 1. And last week, the Rotten Tomatoes number was higher, as the movie debuted on the aggregate at a fresh 69%. While critics mostly panned the original Venom (30% on Rotten Tomatoes, 35 on Metacritic), the sequel has fared a little better (59% on Rotten Tomatoes, 47 on Metacritic). Some of the increase in expectations might have had to do with Venom 2 garnering better reviews (here’s our own). ![]() The site also notes Venom 2‘s Thursday night preview box office was not the year’s best ( Black Widow‘s was), yet its weekend was. Well, we knew that, but they recognized that this means movie theaters could schedule more showings of the sequel than they could of many other blockbusters coming out these days (the opposite will be true next week for the very long No Time to Die, for instance). One thing that Box Office Pro pointed out that I have to acknowledge is that Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a relatively short movie. But last week, Box Office Pro upped their prediction to $71 million - within a potential range of $60 million to $80 million. The site claimed that buzz on Let There Be Carnage was not great. In early September, Box Office Pro forecast an opening gross between $45 million and $65 million for Venom 2. Surely after the success of the first Venom, the industry expected the sequel to do very well, right? Well, we are still in the midst of a pandemic with variants killing people by the hundreds of thousands. Venom 2 also had a greater opening than all the Fantastic Fours, Punishers, Ghost Riders, Blades, Daredevil– Elektras, and one-third of the X-Men– Wolverine– Deadpools. ![]() And it came nowhere near the openings of the Sam Raimi trilogy, including the Venom-focused Spider-Man 3. So that’s seven MCU releases (more than a quarter) it’s beaten.Īs for other Marvel movie series, Venom: Let There Be Carnage performed better than The Amazing Spider-Man but not its sequel. If Venom 2 was officially part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’d place 19th, just barely behind Doctor Strange. Obviously, having the best opening of the year, Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a bigger box office hit than Marvel’s two 2021 outings, Black Widow and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Venom 2 is only the second installment of “ Sony’s Spider-Man Universe,” but there are a number of other franchises worth comparison. It was the rare comic book movie that wasn’t extremely front-loaded in ticket sales. Of course, nobody expected the first movie to be so popular, even after those first few days, but it had monstrous legs. And a smaller opening weekend crowd: 8.8 million. ![]() The original Venom, breaking records of its own, debuted in October 2018 with a lower gross amount. That equates to around 9.8 million tickets sold in the US and Canada and is the best debut since 2019. The sequel opened with a domestic gross of $90.1 million. Venom 2 - officially titled Venom: Let There Be Carnage - however, is the first big tentpole release to set a new franchise box office record as well. For the most part, we have seen new releases breaking previous COVID-19 era records. Will things ever go back to normal, or are we in a new era for stuff like box office figures? With every new blockbuster released in theaters, Hollywood hopes attendance will increase. Time apparently reset when the pandemic began. This week, we look at the opening box office attendance numbers for Venom: Let There Be Carnage (Venom 2), The Addams Family 2, and The Many Saints of Newark. Because the value of money changes over the years, but the value of actual moviegoers remains the same. Rather than focusing on the money, FSR senior editor Christopher Campbell is more interested in the estimated attendance - or number of tickets sold. Welcome to our weekly box office report, which we do a little differently. ![]()
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