VENOM: THE LAST DANCE Closes In On $400M Worldwide As RED ONE Makes Disappointing Overseas Debut

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE Closes In On $400M Worldwide As RED ONE Makes Disappointing Overseas Debut

Sony Pictures' Venom: The Last Dance is proving difficult to beat at the domestic box office, holding on to the No. 1 spot for the third weekend in a row...

By MarkCassidy - Nov 10, 2024 07:11 PM EST
Filed Under: Venom

Venom: The Last Dance may not have made as big a splash at the box office as the previous movies in the franchise, but the final part of Sony Pictures' trilogy is proving difficult to knock off the top spot.

The Last Dance took in $16.2 million from 3,905 North American theaters, which was enough to fend off competition from A24’s horror thriller Heretic and Lionsgate’s family friendly The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.

The studio's latest SSU movie - which sits at 41% on Rotten Tomatoes - has now grossed $279.4 million overseas and $394.2 million globally on a relatively modest budget of $120 million. 

This might well be the last Venom movie, but a recent rumor claimed that Sony is developing an Agent Venom film.

In the comics, Agent Venom was Peter Parker's former bully turned friend Eugene "Flash" Thompson, who bonded with the Venom Symbiote after losing his legs in service of his country. Tony Revolori currently plays Flash in the Spider-Man movies, but The Last Dance may have given us some idea of how Sony intends to introduce a whole new take on the character.

If you haven't seen The Last Dance yet, be warned of major spoilers from this point on.

As Venom sacrifices himself to prevent Knull from invading the planet, we see one of the Xenophages eating the legs of one of Strickland's soldiers, whose last name is given as Thompson. Then, in the post-credits scene, we see a cockroach near a broken vial that had previously been used to house a viral shed of the symbiote.

In other box office news, Red One starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans opened overseas this weekend ahead of its US debut next week, and only managed to take in $26.6 million from 25,195 screens across 75 overseas markets (the movie had a reported budget of just under $250 million).

“Eddie and Venom are on the run," reads the synopsis. "Hunted by both their worlds and with net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtain down on Venom and Eddie’s last day”

In addition to Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road; The Dark Knight Rises) in his dual roles as Eddie Brock and the voice of the Venom symbiote, the supporting cast features Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave; Doctor Strange), Juno Temple (Atonement; Ted Lasso), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill; The Amazing Spider-Man), Peggy Lu (Venom; Crazy Rich Asians), Alanna Ubach (Legally Blonde; Coco), Stephen Graham (The Irishman; Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), Clark Backo (Supernatural; The Changeling), and Cristo Fernández (Ted Lasso; Spider-Man: No Way Home).

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SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 11/10/2024, 7:59 PM
Red One looks terrible. It's the epitome of a Netflix movie.
TiberiousOmega
TiberiousOmega - 11/10/2024, 10:39 PM
@SonOfAGif - I thought it was a Netflix movie!
bcom
bcom - 11/10/2024, 8:08 PM
I bet The Rock will be in his boardroom with his team flipping tables and throwing papers in a rage trying to figure out what went wrong... "How did this happen?! We followed all the algorithms, data and trends on what makes a movie popular and put the ALL in here, so why aren't people paying me money to go and see it????!!!!!"
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 11/10/2024, 8:27 PM
@bcom - not realizing all along that he is a part of the problem. Dude is becoming box office poison
bcom
bcom - 11/10/2024, 10:43 PM
@Shivermetimbers - Yeah. I always got a sense from his movies that he's in it for the money. Not for the enjoyment or passion, but purely to make a profit and that shows when watching anything he headlines in. There's no soul to any of his projects.
Deadinside
Deadinside - 11/13/2024, 9:17 AM
@Shivermetimbers -
He was once considered to be franchise Viagra...now, he seems more like Gonadotropin...! ☮️😜
Nolanite
Nolanite - 11/10/2024, 8:09 PM
250 million?
What'd they do, pay Lame Johnson 249 million for the role?
bobevanz
bobevanz - 11/10/2024, 8:37 PM
I had 450 million, looks like that won't even happen haha
Gambito
Gambito - 11/10/2024, 8:59 PM
Please let red one be a watershed movie where audiences worldwide came together and said stop it with these bloated, ugly ass, barely written and even less barely acted money schemes by has been movie stars
defenderofthefaith
defenderofthefaith - 11/10/2024, 9:19 PM
In other box office news I saw Elevation yesterday and I thought it was really good movie. Plus it has a Deadpool and A Captain American alumni’s in it.
RockReigns
RockReigns - 11/10/2024, 9:21 PM
Red One is a Christmas movie, so I assume the box office gross will grow over the next couple of weeks

Least Rock has Moana 2 to fall back on.
kylo0607
kylo0607 - 11/11/2024, 3:53 AM
@RockReigns - Red One won't last in cinemas for the next couple of weeks lol.

With Gladiator 2 opening this week and Mission Impossible 8 trailer releasing today and getting attached to it, everyone will be going to see that.

And also with Mufasa dropping in December, Red One will get long forgotten by then.
Reginator
Reginator - 11/11/2024, 5:41 AM
Saw venom yesterday. Wasn’t the worst movie I’ve ever seen.

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