Box Office: Venom 2 Becomes The Second Hollywood Film To Cross $200M At The Domestic BO

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Los Angeles, November 14 - Yet another outright theatrical title has achieved a box office milestone during the covid-19 pandemic. Sony Pictures' "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" has become the second Hollywood film, after Marvel Studios' "Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings", to go past $200 million at the domestic box office during the health crisis.

"Venom 2", which stars Tom Hardy in the title role, may not cross "Shang-Chi's" box office record, but it is a great box office milestone, Sony will celebrate. The superhero movie was always meant for theatrical release, and despite other studios were opting for day-and-date release on streamers and in theaters, Sony stuck to the old proven way to release the film and got the result they had wished for.



Overseas, "Venom 2" is going strong and will cross $430 million by the end of Sunday (November 14). While "Venom 2" is way behind "Venom" (2018) in terms of box office numbers, this is also a fact that the sequel is yet to get a release date in China, where the 2018 film had minted a whopping $269 million, for its $856 million worldwide gross.

"Venom 2" was originally set for Sept. 17 release but was pushed by a week on Sept. 24 and then Oct. 15 against Universal/Blumhouse/Miramax’s Halloween Kills. All of this changed, with Venom 2 heading to the first weekend of October after Shang-Chi put up fantastic business over Labor Day weekend with a $94.6M 4-day, $75.3M 3-day.

Despite the last-minute change, "Venom 2" opened to the pandemic best over 3-days with $90M. Even better, it was the second-best opening stateside for October title, behind 2019's Joker ($96.2M). The sequel hit the $100M mark in 5 days, tying with Shang-Chi to the century mark, and pacing quicker than Disney/Marvel's Eternals, Black Widow (6-days), and Universal’s F9 (8 days).

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