Venom: The Last Dance
Sony Pictures | Week 2
$26.1M Domestic Weekend | $90M Domestic Cume
$317.1M Global Cume
Things are looking a little brighter for Sony’s enclave of the Marvel Universe as Venom: The Last Dance posted a solid -49% drop in its second frame to take in $26.1M from 4,131 locations for a PSA of $6,318. That’s enough to maintain the top spot during a relatively quiet pre-election weekend -when many are participating in early voting and/or recuperating from Halloween festivities- and is also the lowest second frame drop for a Venom installment.
Let’s check out the estimated 3-Day…
- Friday – $6.65M
- Saturday – $11.68M
- Sunday – $7.76M
The Last Dance‘s second frame hold is better than Black Adam (-59%, $27.4M), which opened this same weekend in 2022. For comparison, the first Venom had a -56% drop during its second frame to take $35M after a surprise $80.2M debut. The next installment, 2021’s Let There Be Carnage, had a much larger -65% drop in week 2 at $31.7M, although it had a larger opening at $90M after a drought of fanboy movies during the pandemic. The first two movies both wound up with equal $213.5M takes, a number The Last Dance will struggle to replicate at this pace.
We said on Wednesday that -based on the lower-end $51.1M opening- it was possible The Last Dance was looking at a drop comparable to Fox’s 2019 franchise-killer Dark Phoenix, especially when matching that X-Men film’s “B-” CinemaScore. However, it went the other way, rocketing past even our highest projections.
Overseas the story gets even brighter, as the movie passed the $300M mark globally with $317.1M, 4% ahead of Venom: Let There Be Carnage at the same time in release. Keep in mind The Last Dance has the China advantage over Carnage, with another $14.5M earned in the middle kingdom for a current $70.6M market cume, second only to North America. Foreign territories snagged $68.4M overall, with other top market cumes including Mexico ($13.4M), the UK ($11.9M), and South Korea ($9.4M). It also opened in several new markets like France ($6.5M) and Japan ($3.8M).
