Box Office Report for the Week of October 27

Unsurprisingly, Venom: The Last Dance has won this weekend’s fairly dismal box office, with many films in the top ten hitting under the one million mark. For Venom, however, the movie underperformed domestically with the lowest-grossing opening weekend of the trilogy, sitting at $51 million.

While previous franchise films weren’t critically revered, they were massive commercial successes, with the last installment, Let There Be Carnage, finishing its run as one of the highest-grossing movies of the COVID-19 pandemic era. It was inevitable that a third movie would be made, but after so much mediocrity coming out of Sony, the damage was already done despite Tom Hardy‘s best efforts.

That said, the movie may have a shot at being a commercial success. Perhaps not in the United States, but the film is exceeding expectations internationally, bringing its current box office tally to $175 million, while its budget was at $120 million. This could be another Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom situation, where the movie flopped commercially in domestic territories but did well enough internationally that it was the only DC-related commercially viable film since The Batman.

It may also be more profitable than Joker: Folie à Deux, which wouldn’t be a high bar to cross. Still, except for Deadpool & Wolverine, comic book cinema has not had its best year for film, even though the television department has fared much better, with Echo, X-Men ’97, The Penguin, and Agatha All Along all doing very well commercially. One will see how comic book films in 2025 perform, with the true litmus test being Superman. However, don’t expect Kraven the Hunter to be a massive hit. It probably won’t.

As far as other movies are concerned, Edward Berger‘s Conclave is off to a pretty good start, grossing $6.5 million domestically in 1,753 theatres. For an independent production, it’s quite a considerable gross, especially with its budget being only $20 million. But an all-star cast of Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini likely bolstered its anticipation alongside massive Oscar buzz for the picture in the wake of Berger’s previous international acclaim with All Quiet on the Western Front.

Meanwhile, Sean Baker‘s Anora is continuing a platform run with incredible per-theater results, grossing over $867.000 in just 34 venues. This bodes extremely well for its wide release next weekend, as the anticipation for the movie reaches even bigger heights.

Here is the full list of the top ten films of the weekend:

1. Venom: The Last Dance (Sony/Marvel): $51M – 4,131 theatres
2. Smile 2 (Paramount): $9.4M (-59%) – 3,624 theatres
3. Conclave (Universal): $6.5M – 1,753 theatres
4. The Wild Robot (Universal): $6.5M (-36%) – 3,427 theatres
5. We Live in Time (A24): $4.8M (+15%) – 2,968 theatres
6. Terrifier 3 (Iconic Events): $4.3M (-54%) – 2,720 theatres
7. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros): $3.2M (-35%) – 2,874 theatres
8. Anora (NEON): $867.142(+58%) – 34 theatres
9. Piece by Piece (Universal): $720.000 (-65%) – 1,298 theatres
10. Transformers One (Paramount): $720.000 (-64%) – 1,422 theatres

Source: Comscore