VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE Has Another Huge Weekend And Will Soon Become #3 U.S. Movie Of 2021

VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE Has Another Huge Weekend And Will Soon Become #3 U.S. Movie Of 2021

Halloween Kills topped the U.S. box office this weekend, but Venom: Let There Be Carnage's international debut has propelled the Marvel movie to new heights. Find details on that and No Time to Die here!

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By JoshWilding - Oct 18, 2021 09:10 AM EST
Source: Deadline

Venom: Let There Be Carnage started rolling out in overseas markets this weekend and earned a solid $62.3 million in the process. Now, the sequel's international total sits at $115.6 million overseas and a mighty $283.7 million worldwide. With just days to go until it tops $300 million, it's fair to say the Venom follow-up has performed pretty well in this pandemic era of box office takings.

It was a good weekend for No Time to Die as well, as Daniel Craig's final Bond movie topped $447.5 million globally and looks set to soon become the #2 Hollywood movie of 2021, surpassing Godzilla vs. Kong to sit behind F9: The Fast Saga. It's surprising not to see a Marvel Studios movie in those top spots, of course, but that comic book universe has been performing much better domestically.

Inevitably, Halloween Kills took a slice out of both those movies in North America this weekend, but with $16.5 million during its third weekend, Venom: Let There Be Carnage has earned over $168 million domestically. Later this week, it will surpass F9 to become the #3 highest-grossing domestic title of 2021 behind Black Widow (#2) and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (#1).

It's still an uncertain time for the box office, and these numbers are obviously well below what they would have been two years ago. However, these results are pretty damn amazing for 2021, even if they do prove that there's still a long way to go before people feel fully confident in that big screen experience. 

As for Halloween Kills, we recently reviewed the movie, concluding that, "Halloween Kills sidelines Jamie Lee Curtis for a laughably bad middle chapter of a trilogy that features heaps of gore and inventive kills, but is ultimately more filler than killer and a real letdown after 2018's Halloween."

Check out our recent interview with Venom: Let There Be Carnage director Andy Serkis below:
 

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Se4M4NSt4ine
Se4M4NSt4ine - 10/18/2021, 9:32 AM
Don’t mind me… just spraying the salt for the comments to come.

KWilly
KWilly - 10/18/2021, 9:36 AM
I wasn't even in an IMAX theater, but this scene made my theater shake. Unbelievably cool.

Frshcoupe
Frshcoupe - 10/18/2021, 9:45 AM
Where are the “let’s break down the Batman trailer” articles? Or “screen shots and stills from the new Batman trailer”?
ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 10/18/2021, 9:47 AM
@Frshcoupe - that would require effort.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 10/18/2021, 10:42 AM
@Frshcoupe - Here's a preview. When it shows the Riddler in his prison clothes it says "Arkham State Hospital", which was the same place that the Joker was taken to in the Joker movie.
Origame
Origame - 10/18/2021, 9:49 AM
I mean, this is really starting to show marvel needs to step up their game in the foreign market. Probably means some bad things for eternals as that's in a similar position as Shang chi when it comes to the Chinese, though probably has a better chance of releasing there.
LongMayHeReign
LongMayHeReign - 10/18/2021, 10:23 AM
@Origame - How do they need to step up their game exactly? None of their 3 films this year were released in China which is a territory where they can usually at minimum count on an additional $200M. It's obvious why Eternals and Shang Chi won't get release dates but why not Black Widow?

We can tell them not to pander to China and then in the same breath say they need to step up their game there.
Origame
Origame - 10/18/2021, 10:35 AM
@LongMayHeReign - I'm just saying they need to address the elephant in the room which is china. Shang chi was clearly meant to really appease the market but they misjudged how much the Chinese would still associate the property with fu Manchu and how they'd view the project as pandering.

So they got to stop focusing on projects specifically for the Chinese as well as avoiding film makers who are unpopular over there while just accommodating the general rules of entry.
eagc1995
eagc1995 - 10/18/2021, 10:54 AM
@LongMayHeReign - I suspect with Black Widow it had to do with piracy, the film was approved for a China release, but it couldn't be released as it came out in a time where China doesnt show foreign movies and by the time the film would be allowed to be shown, you have 4K copies of it all over the internet and bootleg dvds
LongMayHeReign
LongMayHeReign - 10/18/2021, 11:08 AM
@Origame - But my point is they literally made a great movie out of another unknown dope character, that should be the #1 goal. I mean why did Black Widow not get released there when none of the issues you mentioned apply to that film?
LongMayHeReign
LongMayHeReign - 10/18/2021, 11:20 AM
@eagc1995 - I just don't think the piracy excuse holds much weight when for years films have released months later in China and still did big at the box office, Homecoming being a very notable recent example.

Why would the Chinese theaters not want a new MCU film to drive business even months after it released elsewhere when they have nothing else to play? Just makes no sense to me.
Origame
Origame - 10/18/2021, 12:11 PM
@LongMayHeReign - I mean, it's still tied to the biggest franchise out there. And yeah I'm not sure about black widow.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 10/18/2021, 9:57 AM
Spoilers:

I took my kids to watch it and my 13 year old daughter said “I feel like they made Venom an idiot” and i get her point. A little too “Michael Scott needs a friend” ish, manipulative, feelings hurt easily, tries to be funny and is funny by accident but with way too little of that funny by accident. I get that all of that is the appeal but it ain’t working anymore. The most exciting things about the movie to my kids was the MCU connection. But man the billions of light years or worlds or whatever thing he said before daylight savings kicked in mid-sentence, was really shoe horned to me. Like, oh now you’re a wise cosmic being. Whoops, never mind, you licked a tv

Dude that cop couldn’t fight for nothin man, he didn’t put up a fight at all against Davy Jones’ wife.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 10/18/2021, 10:05 AM
It’s gonna take a Sony Marvel movie to top a Sony marvel movie. Yes ones MCU and one ain’t but those are murky waters now, which I don’t mean in a negative way, as far as watching the movies, but like, I can see Sony keeping Holland to themselves after this. Thanks for all your HELP, China!
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 10/18/2021, 10:09 AM
"Now, the sequel's international total sits at $115.6 million overseas and a mighty $283.7 million worldwide. With just days to go until it tops $300 million, it's fair to say the Venom follow-up has performed well in this pandemic era of box office takings."
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 10/18/2021, 10:10 AM
The Last Duel bombed. A big [frick]ing shame.

Going to miss seeing these movies on the big screen. Soon enough we’ll only have comic book movies like Venom to watch.
jumpingtheshark
jumpingtheshark - 10/18/2021, 10:16 AM
I saw it this weekend and I can't think of a single nice thing to say about it. These characters deserve so much better.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 10/18/2021, 11:28 AM
@jumpingtheshark - me too and man

Spoilers

No call back to that tornado move? Like he shoulda done it and Venom throws a bomb at em or somethin, like a boss on Zelda, but nah, guess he forgot he could do it.
jumpingtheshark
jumpingtheshark - 10/18/2021, 12:36 PM
@TheWalkingCuban yeah the whole tone of the movie was bad. The fight scenes did nothing for me. The dark lighting didn't make it any easier to tell the two symbiotes a part. It was a little better than Riot in the first one, but not by much.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 10/18/2021, 12:43 PM
@jumpingtheshark - Carnage couldn’t decide on a certain height either
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 10/18/2021, 10:36 AM
I'm indifferent about this doing well. the first Venom was not very good IMO, so the last thing I want is mediocre Sony CBM's to do well financially. At the same time these stories should be made into movies. I have yet to see this one, but from the trailer I was never sold.


IronGland
IronGland - 10/18/2021, 10:44 AM
I always want comic book movies to succeed, but I just can't roll with Venom. I'm a real easy touch on these flicks and I still thought the first one was terrible and this one looks worse. 🤷‍♂️ Oh well, he's keeping the box office afloat, at least. Lol.
Kurne
Kurne - 10/18/2021, 11:25 AM
The Venom movies are the only movies where particular people, for whatever reason beyond this universe, draw the line with their "err, Transformers made x amount of money and that still sucked" argument.

I don't know why Venom is where they decide to make their stand. You can't criticise jack about these movies without being labelled "salty", a film snob, a Disney fan or without people immediately running and hiding behind the box office. It just hits all at once and I can't even be bothered arguing.
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