Box Office: ‘Venom 3’ Leads, Tom Hanks Film Fails

“Venom: The Last Dance” enjoyed another weekend at the top of the box office. The Sony release starring Tom Hardy added $26.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates on Sunday.

It was a relatively quiet weekend for North American theaters before the presidential elections. The charts were dominated by holdovers from big studios like Venom 3, “Wild Robot” and “Smile 2”, while the audience categorically rejected the meeting of Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Robert Zemeckis “Here”. Thirty years after Forrest Gump, Here opened for just $5 million with 2,647 seats.

Venom 3 dropped just 49% in its second weekend, which is a very minor drop for a superhero movie. nor did it open as one. The film grossed over US$90 million in two weeks; The first two opened over $80 million. Globally, the picture is brighter, given that it has already crossed the $300 million mark.

Meanwhile, Universal and Illumination’s “Wild Robot” continues to attract moviegoers even after six weeks (and when it’s available on video-on-demand), taking second place with $7.6 million. That’s 11% more than last weekend. The animated wizard has grossed over $121 million in North America and $269 million worldwide.

“The Wild Robot” became the absolute leader of the fall season, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore. “For the fact that this movie went up in six weeks, that’s amazing.”

“Smile 2” came in third with $6.8 million, helping bring its worldwide total to $109.7 million.

The Time Jump Here, a graphic novel that was adapted by Forrest Gump screenwriter Eric Roth, was financed by Miramax and distributed by Sony’s TriStar. Thanks to a fixed-position camera, he spends years in the same living room. Critics disagreed: overall it has a dismal 36% on Rotten Tomatoes.

“In any case, it was a slow weekend, but it didn’t make as much of a splash as many thought it would,” Dergarabedian said. “There are a lot of films for audiences that ‘Here’ was chasing.”

Despite playing in nearly 1,000 other locations, “Here” opened behind Focus Features’ papal thriller “Conclave”, which earned $5.3 million. Playing in 1,796 theaters, The Conclave is down just 20% from last weekend’s debut and has earned $15.2 million so far. Two Indian films also entered the top 10 in their debuts, Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 and Singham Again.

Total box office continues to lag behind 2023 by almost 12%. But holiday releases are likely to give the industry a boost at the end of the year thanks to titles like Gladiator II and Wicked.

“It will be much more competitive in a couple of weeks,” Dergarabedian said.

Jesse Eisenberg film “Real Pain” the comedy-drama about cousins ​​on a Holocaust tour in Poland, which opened in four theaters this weekend in New York and Los Angeles. It grossed an estimated $240,000, or $60,000 per screen, among the top three per-theater averages of the year. In the coming weeks, Searchlight Pictures will expand the release of the well-received film across the country, opening in over 800 theaters on November 15.

However, box office receipts do not always give a complete picture of cinema distribution. Several relatively big-name movies that were in theaters this weekend didn’t close the box office for various reasons, including Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2” World War II film by Steve McQueen “Blitz” and a favorite of Cannes “Emilia Perez”. Netflix, which is doing “Emilia Perez”, never reports the box office. Apple Original Films is following suit with “Blitz,” a likely awards contender that’s in theaters before hitting Apple TV+ on November 22.

“Juror #2” is a Warner Bros. release, and a well-reviewed one at that. Directed by Eastwood, the film stars Nicholas Hoult as a murder juror who faces a major moral dilemma. Domestic ticket sales are suspended. The studio did say it made $5 million in international showings, where it was shown on 1,348 screens.

Even major studios hide box office figures from time to time. Disney didn’t announce a Daisy Ridley movie earlier this year “Young woman and the sea.” Most notably, results were withheld during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It really depends on the distributors,” Dergarabedian said. “Often the reason certain films may not be reported is because the quality of the film is likely to be tied to the box office.”

Final internal data will be published on Monday. According to Comscore, estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at theaters in the U.S. and Canada were:

1. Venom: The Last Dance, $26.1 million.

2. “Wild Robot”, $7.6 million.

3. “Smile 2”, $6.8 million.

4. The Conclave, $5.3 million.

5. “Here,” $5 million.

6. We Live in Time, $3.5 million.

7. Horror 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.”