‘Venom 3’ slinks to $51 million, lowest opening weekend of comic book trilogy

“Venom: The Last Dance” is No. 1 at the box office, but the comic book film fell significantly short of expectations.

The third and final entry in Sony’s Marvel antihero series, led by Tom Hardy, opened to a muted $51 million from 4,125 North American theaters. Rival studios estimate the final weekend number will be under $50 million. Those ticket sales are far behind projections of $65 million and much lower than the prior two installments of 2018’s “Venom,” which opened to $80 million, and 2021’s “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” which opened to a then-pandemic record $90 million.

“Moviegoing is falling back into its sunken state. ‘Joker 2’ left a hole, and ‘Venom 3’ is not filling it,” says David A. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research. “There’s little momentum right now.” To that end, “Joker: Folie à Deux” plunged to the No. 12 spot in its fourth weekend of release, collecting a dismal $600,000 from 1,243 venues. The follow-up to 2019’s billion-dollar hit “Joker” has turned into a box office disaster with $57.

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