Tag: Venom: Let There Be Carnage
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Box Office (Taylor’s Version): ‘The Eras Tour’ Puts Taylor Swift at No. 1 With Second-Biggest October Opening Day Ever
“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” is doing all too well in theaters. The concert film made a cool sum of $39 million on its opening day from 3,855 North American locations, a figure that includes $2.8 million in Thursday previews. That ranks as the second-biggest October opening day ever, behind only the 2019 prestige comic…
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‘Venom 3’ and ‘Bad Boys 4’ Land Summer 2024 Release Dates
Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock/Venom is crashing the summer movie season for the first time as Sony Pictures has set a July 12, 2024, release date for its third “Venom” movie. The film is untitled at this time. Hardy’s previous two comic book tentpoles, 2018’s “Venom” and 2021’s “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” both opened at…
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‘Madame Web’: What to Expect
Sony’s Spider-Verse continues to grow, as the studio seems committed to fleshing out this branching cinematic universe, and the next on their list is Madame Webb. Apart from the McU-adjacent Tom Holland Spider-Man films, which gave the studio its biggest hit in the form of the culmination of No Way Home in 2021, the response…
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October Box Office Sinks to 21-Year Low
The October box office played out the way studios and analysts predicted it would: an improvement from a miserable September, but still well below where theaters need business to be. In fact, October’s box office came in at the lowest level in 21 years.At the start of the month, distribution chiefs told TheWrap that they…
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‘Venom 3,’ ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Sequel in the Works at Sony
Get ready for more Venom.Sony Pictures has greenlit a third installment of the Tom Hardy-led “Venom” franchise, following the back-to-back box office successes of 2021’s “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” (502 million globally) and 2018’s “Venom” (856 million globally).The studio also announced plans for another “Ghostbusters” installment, which will serve as a follow-up to 2021’s…
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‘Morbius’ Box Office Feels the Bite of Terrible Reviews and a C+ Cinemascore
The first weekend of April was a dud. There was reason to hope it would launch a comeback month with multiple breakout openers, but “Morbius” (Sony) failed to live up to expectations and with a must-see North Carolina/Duke basketball game competing for attention Saturday night, the box office struggled.“Morbius” is the third entry in the…
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‘Morbius’ Director Daniel Espinosa Explains [Spoiler] in the Post-Credits Scene and Future Team-Ups
Spoiler Warning: Do not read if you have not seen “Morbius,” currently playing in theaters. This story discusses movie’s post-credits scenes.After nearly two years of pandemic delays, “Morbius” has finally opened in theaters, expanding Sony’s universe of Marvel characters and growing the web of Spider-Man villains getting their own origin stories.“Morbius” — starring Jared Leto…
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Sony’s Kraven The Hunter Adds Alessandro Nivola As New Villain
Sony is learning again and again that superhero movies are the ticket. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” set records left and right, becoming a “cultural phenomenon” for 2021. Surprise rom-com “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” is still the talk of the water cooler, and made more than $500 million globally. Dr. Morbius would have more to…
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‘The Batman’ and Russia: F1, Eurovision, and YouTube Take Action, but Box Office Is Business as Usual
Russia’s top box-office grosses for 2021 reflect something we rarely see on international charts: near-total domination by major U.S. studio releases. (#1 was “Venom: Let There Be Carnage.”) The two local titles in the top 10 — “Upon the Magic Roads” and “The Last Warrior: Root of Evil” — were Sony and Disney co-productions, respectively.A…
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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Officially Opens to $260 Million, Second-Biggest Box Office Debut in History
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” has generated even more money in its box office debut than initially reported.Sony’s epic finale in the Tom Holland-led comic book trilogy collected a mind-blowing $260 million in North American theaters over the weekend, above Sunday’s estimates of $253 million. It means “No Way Home” has now surpassed “Avengers: Infinity War”…