UPDATE: 2025-06-23 08:07 EST BY BRENNAN KLEIN

Venom 3’s 56% Projected Drop Shrinks To An Even Better 49%

This article was originally written Saturday AM and has been updated Sunday AM with up-to-date box office projections (in bold), a full chart, and further analysis.

Venom The Last Dance Til Death Do They Part Poster

Herehas severely underperformed at the box office whileVenom: The Last Dancehas had a reassuringly solid second weekend.Here, which takes place in a single home and follows the life of a family across multiple generations, reunites director Robert Zemeckis withForrest Gumpscreenwriter Eric Roth and co-stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. The new movie’s opening weekend is competing with the second weekend of theVenom: The Last Dancebox office, which debuted with $51 million and earned, by a significant margin, the worst opening weekend of the three-movie Tom Hardy superhero franchise.

PerVariety, as of Sunday morning,Venom: The Last Danceis projected to earn a three-day total of roughly$26.1 million, which represents a49%drop from its opening weekend.This drop is much better than initial expectations for the movie, which earned a dismal 39% score on Rotten Tomatoes. In fact, it is significantly better than the original 2018Venom, which debuted with $80.2 million and previously had the lowest drop of the trilogy, falling 56.4% in its second weekend.

Here (2024)

This will allowThe Last Danceto maintain its position at No. 1 on the domestic chart for the second weekend in a row. Meanwhile,Hereis only projected to gross a three-day opening weekend total of$5 million, a total that will see it debut atNo. 5on the chart.This debut comes in lower than the movie’s initial $7 million projections, which were already significantly beneath its $45 million budget, which likely necessitates an overall gross of $112.5 million or more in order for it to break even. See the full Top 5 for the weekend below:

1

$26.1 million

$90 million (weekend 2)

2

$7.55 million

$121.4 million (weekend 6)

3

$6.8 million

$52.6 million (weekend 3)

4

$5.3 million

$15.2 million (weekend 2)

5

$5 million

$5 million (weekend 1)

AlthoughVenom’s hold is very admirable, the chart’s most dazzling week-on-week performance comes fromtheWild Robotrelease. The animated movie has been slowly and steadily becoming a major hit, and it has continued this trend in week 6 byrising 11% in a shock return to No. 2after falling to No. 3 the previous weekend. Meanwhile,Smile 2has slipped from No. 2 to No. 3 with a slim 29% drop whileConclavehas also only fallen one slot with an even better 20% drop.

With only one new release charting this weekend, there hasn’t been much of a shift in the titles on the Top 5. However, the romanceWe Live in Time, which spent last weekend at No. 5, did have to exit in order to make room forHere, dropping 28% with a $3.46 million haul landing it at No. 6. The excellent week-on-week holds of every holdover title on the chart seems to be in large part a result ofHere’s underperformance, as the other new releases played in more limited theaters and posed less of a draw for general audiences.

What This Week 2 Drop Means For Venom: The Last Dance

The Tom Hardy Sequel Could Become A Sleeper Hit

The projections for the weekend reveal thatVenom: The Last Dancereleaseisshowing signs of life after its debut turned out significant diminishing returns. Not only did it beat the original movie’s drop, it is a significant improvement on the most recent installment, 2021’sLet There be Carnage, which fell more than 60% in its second weekend, losing its No. 1 slot to the James Bond sequelNo Time to Die. Below, see a breakdown of the box office performance of both of the previous installments in the Tom Hardy franchise:

$80.2 million

56.4%

$856 million

$90 million

64.7%

$506.8 million

It remains to be seen ifThe Last Dancecan match either of the previousVenommovies, as their debuts gave them significant head starts. However, the fact that the original movie debuted lower than its sequel but climbed to a higher overall total off the back of a solid week 2 drop means thatthe new movie could become a sleeper hitif it keeps its momentum up. On its current trajectory, it could gross more than$540 million, beatingLet There be Carnageand passing its break-even point, which is likely $300 million considering its $120 million budget.

Our Take On The Weekend Box Office

Venom 3 Can Go The Distance

While theHerereleasecould very well drop from the Top 5 entirely in its second weekend,Venom: The Last Dancehas a chance of maintaining a strong chart position for the next few weeks given its reassuring audience hold. If it continues to drop at this rate, it could provide major competition for the No. 1 slot in its third weekend as well. The weekend’s new release slate doesn’t feature any major tentpoles, but rather titles such as A24’s Hugh Grant horror-thrillerHereticand the Anthony Mackie monster movieElevation, which has had a relatively quiet rollout.

Venom: The Last Dance

Cast

Venom: The Last Dance is a film directed by an undisclosed director, featuring the character Venom in a thrilling narrative. The movie explores the alien symbiote’s latest challenges and transformations as it navigates through a world full of danger and new adversaries.

Here

Here is an objective and formal description for the movie Here (2024): Directed by Robert Zemeckis, this film is an exploration of time and memory, unraveling the intertwined lives and stories of families across generations in a New England setting.