Hey everyone, I'm temporarily stepping in for /u/mi-16evil for the next little while to follow the biggest box office stories of the past week! You can expect a handful of Monday posts like this for the next few weeks (we've got some huge films being released soon - like No Time To Die, Dune, and Eternals - that I'm sure everyone would like to discuss the progress of).RankTitleDomestic Gross (Weekend)Worldwide Gross (Cume)Week #% ChangeBudget1Venom: Let There Be Carnage$90,100,000$103,900,0001N/A$110M2The Addams Family 2$18,007,000data unavailable1N/Adata unavailable3Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings$6,037,000$386,908,8025-54%$150-200M4The Many Saints of Newark$5,000,000$7,300,0001N/A$50M5Dear Evan Hansen$2,450,000data unavailable2-67%$27-28MOpening next weekend: No Time To Die, the fifth James Bond film starring Daniel Craig. More on NTTD later.Notable Box Office StoriesThe first Venom film exceeded expectations when it opened to just over $80 million in October 2018 (/u/mi-16evil wrote about it at the time), but few people could have predicted that the sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage would not only surpass the opening weekend box office of its predecessor but do so during a time when cinemas worldwide are seeing reduced admissions across the board. Let There Be Carnage opened to $90.1 million this weekend, setting a new box office record for an opening during the COVID-19 pandemic; the previous record-holder was Black Widow which opened to $80.8 million in July - but with a simultaneous theatrical and Disney+ release, whereas Let There Be Carnage was an exclusively theatrical release. Note that LTBC surprisingly is not the first sequel released during the pandemic to outperform its predecessor - that would be Space Jam 2 whose opening weekend outperformed the opening weekend of the first Space Jam film by approximately $3.5 million.The first weekend of October appears to have been an excellent time in recent years for films to open - because alongside the impressive 2018 opening weekend of the first Venom film, we have Joker opening in 2019 with $93.5 million (/u/mi-16evil wrote about it at the time) and setting the record for an opening weekend during the month of October (a record which it still holds). Although Let There Be Carnage faces some stiff competition in the remainder of October from the likes of No Time To Die and Dune, it does have one notable advantage in that LTBC has a very short runtime (97 minutes) compared to the 150+ minute runtimes of the two aforementioned films; it may be that cinemas can choose to schedule more showtimes for Venom per day than for the longer films. Either way, with this weekend's record-breaking performance, I'm sure if Eddie Brock was reading this writeup there would only be one logical way to celebrate the good news. *happy lobster-eating noises*The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel film to the legendary TV series The Sopranos, grossed $5 million during its opening weekend. Although HBO MAX numbers are yet to be released, many speculated that the film's simultaneous theatrical and HBO MAX release may have caused it to be a film watched primarily on the streaming service - especially given the fact that many fans of The Sopranos would already be HBO MAX subscribers, and be more accustomed to watching Sopranos content on TV than at the cinema. Other recent Warner Brothers victims at the box office include Cry Macho and Malignant, both of which were also released to HBO MAX the same day and both of which failed to gross over $6 million during their respective opening weekends.The latest James Bond film No Time To Die opened in over 50 international markets, including the UK, this weekend and grossed a total of $119.1 million worldwide. This is the first film to be released during the COVID-19 pandemic to cross the $100 million threshold in international markets during its opening weekend, but without a release in China (it opens there at the end of October). In the UK, the film opened to $34.8 million this weekend - surpassing the UK opening weekend box office of Skyfall ($32.4 million) to be the largest three-day weekend in the history of the series (and the sixth-largest opening weekend in the UK of all time). Spectre opened on a Monday (the same night as its premiere at the Royal Albert Hall) so its numbers were "higher" but reflect an entire week's performance (source: Deadline).Dune opened in over 30 international markets in mid-September and crossed the $100 million threshold this week, with $10 million of that coming from IMAX screenings. According to Deadline, the top five markets for Dune to date are France ($18.6M - and it has been #1 three weekends in a row), Russia ($18.1M), Germany ($13.4M), Spain ($6.9M) and Italy ($6.7M). The film opens in the US and Canada on October 22.Other notable stories... after dominating the September box office, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings crossed the $200 million threshold domestically this week, becoming the first film to be released during the COVID-19 pandemic to do so. It is also the first film to cross this threshold in a single calendar month since late 2019, when Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was the last to do so. Titane, the winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year, opened in over 560 cinemas in North America this weekend to gross a total of $515,000 - the largest domestic opening for any Palme d'Or winner since Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004.Films Reddit Wants to FollowThis is a segment where we keep a weekly tally of currently showing films that aren't in the Top 5 that fellow redditors want updates on. It's been months since we did Box Office Week so right now we have no films to follow. If you'd like me to add a film to this chart, make a comment in this thread.TitleDomestic Gross (Weekend)Worldwide Gross (Cume)Week #% ChangeBudgetAs always /r/boxoffice is a great place to share links and other conversations about box office news; you can also view the archive of all Box Office Week posts at /r/moviesboxoffice. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3l7HoPl
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