According to forecasts, “Venom 3” is expected to gross $150 million worldwide on its opening weekend, including $65 million in North America. That’s much stronger than “Joker 2” or the last SSU movie “Madame Web”, but less than “Venom” and “Venom 2”.
“Venom” was a big surprise in 2018, and it can be rightly said: the superhero movie with Tom Hardy raised $856 million worldwide, and a significant part of it (namely $269 million) in China . With “Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage” it was still enough for 506 million worldwide (not starting in and therefore no money from China) – and that despite the Corona restrictions that were still in place in October 2021 But for “Venom: The Last DanceAccording to current forecasts, it will probably not be easy (or even impossible) to match the strong figures of his predecessors.
As various US industry magazines consistently report, “Venom 3” has a worldwide gross of about $150 million on its opening weekend, including $65 million in the largest and most important cinema market, the US. For comparison: “Venom” opened in North America in 2018 with $80 million, the sequel three years later even with $90 million.
With a rumored budget of $120 million, that’s still the case strong start for “Venom 3” financially. To make money at the box office, “The Last Dance” would need to gross around $300 million – and this release will certainly be able to do that.even if the film is clearly the weakest result of the “Venom” trilogy.
In the current environment, those responsible should still take a deep breath
Yes, “Venom 3” will have the weakest opening of the series (we will know more precisely next Monday at the latest, when the film will have finished its first weekend in major parts of the world). But at least It will almost certainly still be profitable – and in the current tumultuous environment, that’s certainly a source of joy if you look at the past few months (apart from the “aslier”Deadpool and Wolverine“) looks like this:
After all, Venom: The Last Dance’s prospects are still far brighter than Joker 2: Folie À Deux’s disastrous 37 million or Madame Web’s 26 million in its first six days.
Big plans for the future
Although “Venom 3” is the conclusion of the trilogy, it is already clear that Sony still has big plans for its own Marvel Universe (the Sony Spider-Man Universe or SSU for short) beyond “The Last Dance “. Not only is it coming on December 12, 2024 “The Hunter’s Collar“ in German cinemas, with the introduction of the main villain Knull in “Venom 3”, they also want to build something like a new Thanos.as “The Last Dance” director and screenwriter Kelly Marcel explained in recent interviews.
Whether these plans will actually be implemented will depend on the final box office results of “Venom: The Last Dance” (and “Kraven The Hunter”)!. If you want to prepare yourself for all this, you can find out more about the new SSU supervillain Knull in this article, because he has a really crazy story:
Who is Knull? The new villain in ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ explained