It was a record weekend at the box office for Sony’s release of Venom, which delivered a massive $80 million, topping the previous October opening weekend record by more than $20 million.
Additionally, Warner Bros.’s A Star is Born more than carried its own weight with a stellar debut of its own, topping $40 million for its opening weekend and helping this become the largest October weekend of all-time.
With an estimated $80 million, Sony’s release of Venom into 4,250 locations not only topped the weekend box office, but it topped the previous October opening weekend record of $55.7 million set by Gravity in 2013 by over $20 million.
The debut ranks ahead of the $75.8 million opening for Ant-Man and the Wasp earlier this year and just behind the $84.4 million opening for Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Both films went on to gross over $210 million domestically, but before we get that far, one thing everyone will
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