‘Venom: There Will Be Carnage’ has shattered the record for Best US premiere since the start of the pandemic. Sony’s superhero movie has added $ 90.1 million in its first weekend, thus comfortably surpassing the 80.8 million that ‘Black Widow’ got at the time.
The achievements of ‘Venom: There Will Be Carnage’
Also, ‘Venom: There Will Be Carnage’ marks like this the second best premiere of all time in October, remaining only behind ‘Joker’ and its 96.2 million dollars. It is also worth noting that ‘Venom: There will be Carnage’ has exceeded the data set by the first installment in October 2018, when it debuted with 80.2 million dollars.
Josh greenstein, President of Sony, has affirmed after knowing the data that, “For us, ‘Venom: There Will Be Carnage’ fully validates our exclusive window strategy in theaters“Considering how badly Warner has been doing lately with its simultaneous release policy, it’s hard not to agree with him.
It is not the only record that the sequel to ‘Venom’ has achieved, since in its first weekend in Russia It has amassed $ 13.8 million, thus also becoming the best premiere in that country since the start of the pandemic.
‘Venom’ brought in $ 856 million in 2018. If it matches or exceeds that figure, ‘Venom: There will be Carnage’ would also be the highest-grossing Hollywood movie since the coronavirus crisis. That honor belongs today to ‘Fast & Furious 9’ with 716 million dollars.