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Wkd Box Office - 10•5-7•18 - Audiences slurp up Venom. $80M Oct Record. Gaga is a strong 2nd. $42M.

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This is ResetEra's weekend box office thread. While the OP focuses on the popular weekend tallies, we typically discuss box office throughout the week as well when notable films are playing. New threads are are posted each Sunday morning, between 8-10am PST.



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'Venom' Still Showing $80M Fangs; 'A Star Is Born' Hitting $42M+ High Note In Record October Weekend

Sony is calling the weekend on Venom at an $80M opening after a strong Saturday of $26.6M, -19% from Friday, a percent ease that's in the Friday-to-Saturday sphere of Guardians of the Galaxy (-18%), and a tad steeper than Justice League (-15%). Sony is projecting a $20.7M Sunday.

At this level, Venom reps Sony's 7th best domestic opening of all-time behind Spider-Man 3 ($151.1M), Spider-Man: Homecoming ($117M), Spider-Man ($114.8M), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($91.6M), Skyfall ($88.3M), and Spider-Man 2 ($88.1M).

That speaks volumes about why Venom is so high-up on the studio's domestic B.O. opener list: In Marvel comic book canon and even in Spider-Man 3, the black-clad fanged anti-hero is a spinoff of Spider-man. In the wake of Sony teaming with Disney's Marvel on Homecoming, the Culver City studio is careful to distinguish its own Marvel properties. They don't consider Venom a Spider-Man spinoff or Spider-Man related. But seriously, let's call Venom's success for what it is: Moviegoers aren't flocking to this pic because it's original IP, it's because they're connecting it to Spider-man (even though he's never mentioned or alluded to in the movie). A Fandango survey of 1,000 moviegoers indicated prior to the weekend that 93% were looking forward to seeing a different kind of Marvel anti-hero, while 90% couldn't wait for a future Venom/Spider-Man match-up (even though the former property isn't part of Disney's MCU) while 80% were going because they were Tom Hardy fans.

Sony was hoping that Venom would launch a greater cinematic universe of characters seen in the Spider-Man verse, and well, mission accomplished this weekend with this very solid start. In the wings is a Morbius movie with Daniel Espinosa directing and Jared Leto as the title vampire and Spider-Man villain as well as projects centering around Kraven the Hunter., Silk, Jackpot, Nightwatch, Black Cat and Silver (the latter two now poised to get their own separate films versus the originally planned teaming).

Venom and Warner Bros. A Star Is Born –which had a $15M Saturday, -4% from Friday for a revised FSS of $41.2M, with previews $42.6M–accounted for the best presales October weekend record ever for Fandango. While Venom had the most advance ticket sales, A Star Is Born was close behind with both besting the previous record set by 20th Century Fox's The Martian. Again both movies are propelling October to its best weekend ever with north of $170M in ticket sales.

For Warners the Bradley Cooper-Lady Gaga music romance is their second-biggest October opener after Gravity ($55.7M). Warners is savoring third place as well with their animated Smallfoot which is set to do $14.9M (-35%) in weekend 2 after a $6.3M Saturday (+81% over Friday) and a running total by EOD tomorrow of $42.7M.

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DOMESTIC WEEKEND BOX OFFICE



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WORLDWIDE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE

Venom - $205M

The Incredibles 2 - $1.222B
The Nun - $347M
Crazy Rich Asians - $226M
The Predator - $123M
Johnny English - $67M







Weekend Box Office Archive and Appendix

Thread Archive

Web links to box office resources

Explanation of Box Office Terms, Abbreviations, and Concepts
 
ItIsOkBro

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why the fuck does sony keep making spider-man mo-

At this level, Venom reps Sony's 7th best domestic opening of all-time behind Spider-Man 3 ($151.1M), Spider-Man: Homecoming ($117M), Spider-Man ($114.8M), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($91.6M), Skyfall ($88.3M), and Spider-Man 2 ($88.1M).
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Well that's definitely more than what I expected!
I guess Venom 2 is guaranteed now
 
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I thought for sure Star is Born would do better than Venom, wonder if the numbers will flip around over time? Gonna go see Venom today and Star is Born later this week, maybe (A-List).

The last 2-3 months have been super weak movie wise, at least for me. At least next week has Bad Times at El Royale, hope thats at least fun to watch.
 

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What I take away is that Venom fans really will see anything with Venom in it :p

I wonder how good the second weekend will be though.
 

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A Star Is Born is fantastic. Made me cry like a baby. Gaga has the best original song oscar on lock down. Good shot at best actress.
 
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If it's really as bad as people say it is, Venom should have a big drop next week due to bad word of mouth. But a strong opening weekend like this is enough to make it profitable and basically guarantee a sequel.
 
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I'm genuinely impressed with Peppermint, it somehow had a worse drop than Assassination Nation and an amazing $55 PTA.

I might have other opinions on indie/smaller films later. But uh, congrats to all little monsters this weekend.
 
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, while 90% couldn't wait for a future Venom/Spider-Man match-up (even though the former property isn't part of Disney's MCU) while 80% were going because they were Tom Hardy fans
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Lol amazing people think itll happen when even Disney said no. Was it the Daily Bugle mention by Hardy?
 
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Good for Venom. I didn't think the movie was all that great but it wasn't terrible.

Lean in to more of the action comedy with the sequel and I'm in.
 
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The gap between Venom and A Star is Born is big enough that the latter may never hit #1 for a weekend. Venom would need to drop 65% next weekend and ASIB around 30% or less. And that's assuming that First Man doesn't beat tracking to hit $30M+ itself. After that, Halloween is out, which should take the last two weekends in October.
 
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KenzinFive said:
If it's really as bad as people say it is, Venom should have a big drop next week due to bad word of mouth. But a strong opening weekend like this is enough to make it profitable and basically guarantee a sequel.
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I disagree, sofa critics will bash the shit outta this movie because it's trash but general audiences love it. My theater was having a blast and people were laughing super hard and I was just sitting there with my brother like "this is dumb wtf".
 
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But let's talk about audience breakdown:

Deadline said:
Venom drew 68% males on PostTrak to 32% females, with 36% males over 25 the biggest group, followed by 32% guys under 25, 19% females over 25 (they loved it the most 85%; gotta be the Hardy factor), and females under 25 at 13%. A solid turnout here at 36% Caucasian, 27% Hispanic, 19% African American, 11% Asian and 6% Other. Venom played best in the West and South but was strong across the board we hear.
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A Star Is Born gets a solid A CinemaScore tonight and a 90% on PostTrak and 4.5 stars. Who doesn't love the movie? Females turned out at 66% to guys' 34%; both gave it a solid A. Over 50 bunch at 42% graded it A. Under 25ers may have been small in their turnout at 14%, but they loved the Cooper-directed movie the most with an A+. Those over 25 who made up 86% of the audience gave A Star Is Born an A. On PostTrak, 69% of the audience was Caucasian, 17% Hispanic, 4% African American and 7% Asian. A Star Is Born played best in the big cities, especially on the coasts: A majority of the top 10 runs were in New York or Los Angeles.
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The Star is Born audience is white AF. I am curious what other major releases swung that white.
 
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A Star Is Born is fantastic. Made me cry like a baby. Gaga has the best original song oscar on lock down. Good shot at best actress.
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Yes, yes she does. It'll lessen the travesty of when she lost Best Original Song to that awful Sam Smith James Bond song

Go see A Star Is Born everybody. Bradley Cooper made a fantastic film.
 

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Yes, yes she does. It'll lessen the travesty of when she lost Best Original Song to that awful Sam Smith James Bond song

Go see A Star Is Born everybody. Bradley Cooper made a fantastic film.
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I really hope the film has long legs, it deserved every penny it made. Bradley Cooper knocked it out of the park.
 
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Saw it on Friday, was a decent attempt by Sony. I think it will have good word of mouth to keep it moving along
 

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thediamondage said:
I thought for sure Star is Born would do better than Venom, wonder if the numbers will flip around over time? Gonna go see Venom today and Star is Born later this week, maybe (A-List).

The last 2-3 months have been super weak movie wise, at least for me. At least next week has Bad Times at El Royale, hope thats at least fun to watch.
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Not to be dramatic, but in what universe would an R-rated musical drama open bigger than a superhero blockbuster with Spider-man's (arguably) most iconic villain?
 
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Surprised at Venom's take. Hope it bodes well for a sequel, and I hope they double down on the Venom/Eddie stuff that made this first one pretty enjoyable.

Was trying to watch a Star is Born the other day but the Dolby Theater I was in had some audio problems during the trailers so I noped out and got a refund. I'll see if I can see it later today or this week.
 
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compbros said:
I disagree, sofa critics will bash the shit outta this movie because it's trash but general audiences love it. My theater was having a blast and people were laughing super hard and I was just sitting there with my brother like "this is dumb wtf".
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It's similar to the internet reactions to the trailers, and yet the viewership and likes on YouTube told another story. I was hoping it would be a tad softer so that they didn't greenlight anymore spinoffs. Hopefully they understand that Venom + Tom Hardy is a different draw than the rest of the lineup they had in mind.
 
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