‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ Looking At Extremely Robust October Opening Day & Weekend Start – Friday Afternoon Update

SonysVenom: Let There Be Carnagerang up a great $11.6M Thursday night from showtimes that began at 4PM yesterday at 3,475 theaters. Thats the second best weve seen during the pandemic afterDisney/MarvelsBlack Widowwhich grossed $13.2M on Thursday night from shows that began at 5PM (sans Disney+ Premier for the night). Disney/Marvels Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings follows in ranking among big pandemic Thursday nights with $8.8M from showtimes at 6 p.m., and then Universals F9which did $7.1M off 7PM showtimes. We had previously heard that the first day advance ticket sales for Andy Serkis-directed movie were quite potent. The current Rotten Tomatoes review rating forVenom 2is at 58% Rotten, which is higher than the 2018s first installment of 30% Rotten. Well see how audience exits settle. Theyre always high with fans on Thursday night and even out by tonight. Fans at an AMC Universal Citywalk screening Monday night went bonkers for the Tom Hardy sequel. Sony has told the media that theyre comping the sequel toA Quiet Place Part IIwhich did $47.5M over its 3 days of Memorial Day weekend, however, other tracking services and even major exhibitors own internal projections have Venom 2over $60M.Venom 2is already far ahead of A Quiet Place 2 with its preview night making 2.4x more than that horror film which did $4.8M. MGM/United Artists Releasing/Bron CreativesThe Addams Family 2held previews that began at 4pm. The pic is booked at 4,207 locations and available for a 48-hour rental on PVOD for $19.99. The pic is expected to gross in the high teens over three days. The first movie back in 2019, also directed by Conrad Vernon and which was on a theatrical window, opened to $24.2M. We hear thatAddams Family 2did $550K last night from roughly 2,500 theaters. Voltage Pictures had two special showings of YA romance threequelAfter We Fellwhich collected a solid $627K from both the 7pm and 10pm Fathom Events shows. Warner Bros.The Many Saints of Newarkwhich is going day-and-date theatrical on HBO Max did not hold Thursday night previews. DisneysShang-Chigrossed over $200M yesterday, the first movie at the domestic box office to reach that feat during the pandemic of the last 20 months. We already reported a week ago that the MCU title surpassedBlack Widowto becomes the highest grossing movie of the pandemic in U.S. and Canada. The post ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ Looking At Extremely Robust October Opening Day Weekend Start – Friday Afternoon Update appeared first on Patabook Entertainment.

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