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'Venom' dances on, again leading N.America box office

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Agence France-Presse

<p>LOS ANGELES - &quot;Venom: the Last Dance,&quot; starring Tom Hardy as the titular anti-hero, held tight to the top spot in North American theaters with an estimated weekend haul of $26.1 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday.</p><p>Though it has had a weaker opening than either of its two &quot;Venom&quot; predecessors, it has grossed a respectable $90 million domestically and $227 million internationally in its two weeks out.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/2024/10/27/-venom-still-kills-topping-n-american-box-office-313">&#x27;Venom&#x27; still kills, topping N.American box office</a></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/2024/10/24/-venom-the-last-dance-review-older-grizzled-tom-hardy-still-fun-to-watch-1142">&#x27;Venom: The Last Dance&#x27; review: Older, grizzled Tom Hardy still fun to watch</a></div><p>Meanwhile the Universal and DreamWorks Animation film &quot;The Wild Robot,&quot; a family-friendly yarn about a mechanical creature having to share a remote island with fuzzy animals, actually rose in its sixth weekend out, gaining two spots to second place while taking in $7.6 million.</p><p>Paramount&#x27;s horror film &quot;Smile 2,&quot; with Naomi Scott playing a pop star afflicted by a grim curse, slipped slightly to third, with ticket sales estimated at $6.8 million for the post-Halloween Friday-through-Sunday period.</p><p>Also down one spot, to fourth place, was religious thriller &quot;Conclave&quot; from FilmNation, at $5.3 million. Ralph Fiennes, playing a cardinal called on to &quot;manage&quot; the election of a new pope, finds himself caught in a web of unseemly ambition and shadowy intrigue that has drawn Oscar buzz.</p><p>But a much-talked-about new film from Miramax and Sony, fantasy drama &quot;Here&quot; from &quot;Forrest Gump&quot; director Robert Zemeckis, performed below analysts&#x27; expectations, placing fifth with just $5 million.</p><p>It uses AI technology to &quot;de-age&quot; Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, as part of an ambitious epic, set in a single location, that spans from the dinosaur age to the present.</p><p>That was &quot;a weak opening for an original drama,&quot; said David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.</p><p>&quot;To work, this kind of story needs to connect emotionally and powerfully,&quot; he said, adding that critics&#x27; reviews and audiences&#x27; reactions show that this film doesn&#x27;t.</p><p>With a production budget of close to $50 million, the film &quot;release will end in red ink,&quot; Gross said.</p><p>Rounding out the top 10 were:</p><p>&quot;We Live in Time&quot; ($3.5 million)</p><p>&quot;Terrifier 3&quot; ($3.2 million)</p><p>&quot;Singham Again&quot; ($2.1 million)</p><p>&quot;Beetlejuice Beetlejuice&quot; ($2.1 million)</p><p>&quot;Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3&quot; ($2 million)</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>"Venom: the Last Dance," starring Tom Hardy as the titular anti-hero, held tight to the top spot in North American theaters with an estimated weekend haul of $26.1 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday.</p>

"Venom: the Last Dance," starring Tom Hardy as the titular anti-hero, held tight to the top spot in North American theaters with an estimated weekend haul of $26.1 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday.