‘Venom: The Last Dance’ Bonds With $27.3M In First Two Days Overseas; Now Eyeing $180M Global Bow – International Box Office
FRIDAY UPDATE, Refresh for latest…: Across its first two full days of overseas play, Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance has slurped up a total $27.3M from 47 international box office markets. As we noted on Wednesday (see below) the early offshore performance is sending projections for the global bow higher than initially estimated. Worldwide, the Marvel symbiote is now looking at a $180M opening. Thursday’s domestic previews, as Anthony has reported, were $8.5M.
If it hits that $180M mark globally, The Last Dance will come in 5% above the worldwide debut of the previous title in the trilogy, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, on a like-for-like basis at today’s rates.
Part of what we’re seeing here is a better-than-expected start in China ($14.7M through Thursday), while some South East Asia markets saw launches that were higher than Let There Be Carnage. That includes results in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
In Europe, Germany’s opening day of $800K was bigger than Carnage by 43%, and Belgium’s $168K is the top start in the franchise.
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PREVIOUS, WEDNESDAY: Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance chomped into its first suite of international box office markets today, with the Marvel symbiote nabbing a strong $9.3M start in China.
This is the biggest opening day for a superhero film since Spider-Man: Far From Home in the market, and portends a five-day launch in the upper $30M neighborhood there. The start is also above recent Hollywood releases, though not apples-to-apples since other movies opened across a traditional weekend.
These days, anything above a $20M debut in China is icing for the studios. The early social score from Maoyan is a 9 and we are waiting on critical responses. These scores can certainly impact the outcome over the next few days.
The second Venom movie, Let There Be Carnage, did not release in the market while the first one did gangbusters at a $107.7M bow (historical rates). It finaled at $269.2M (again, historical conversion), and had a 9.1 social score. Maoyan is currently predicting an $82.5M total run for the Tom Hardy threequel.
As we noted yesterday, Venom: The Last Dance has been looking at a potential $150M global opening with $85M of that from overseas; the latter number now looks to shoot higher (bringing the worldwide opening to around $165M) if China delivers a high $30Ms 5-day.
Directed by Kelly Marcel and co-written by Marcel and Hardy, The Last Dance will be out in 90% of its offshore footprint through Friday, with France and Japan joining later in the rollout.
We will have updates throughout the weekend…
